Tried to get my Yugo M59 barrel clean, but gave up

[rjackson1986]

I can't tell you how many patches I put down the barrel of my Yugo M59. It didn't want to get clean. I tried Bore Clean and CLP. I let that stuff sit in there. Tries the brass brush. Lol damn patches kept coming out dirty. The only thing that I have found useful for cleaning the barrel is boiling water.

[shortyforty]

On tough ones like that, I go straight to gasoline and a bore brush. Works like a charm.

[Enfield47]

The best thing to do is shoot it. That should help clean out some of the junk that is stuck in the grooves.

[rjackson1986]

Thanks

[hermosabeach]

You can find lead removal cloth and cut some to size to run down the bore



If you have oil products in the bore from 50 years of storage, carb or brake cleaner works really well



If you just have a dirty dirty bore.
JB bore paste and kroil clean like magic


Run 3-4 kroil patches in bore soaked with kroil

3-4 clean patches until dry

Run 3-4 patches with JB bore compound down the bore

Run 3-4 clean patches

Then repeat the process

[pacrat]

rjackson1986 said

The only thing that I have found useful for cleaning the barrel is boiling water.

A very effective method I use also involves boiling water for tough old crud buildup in bores. Even dessicate cosmolene.

Stuff a small tight rag into muzzle to seal it. With muzzle down in a location you don't care gets wet. Pour "boiling" water into reviever until full. Wait a minute or so and pull out rag. Repeat 5 or six times until you can feel the barrel getting hot on the outside. On the last boiling water cycle, let it set for several minutes.

This opens the pores of the steel and also softens the crud nicely. I then use a tight fitting stainless bore brush to stroke the bore from breech to muzzle only, about 20 times. Then do a boiling water flush through the bore without the rag plug.

Then do the boiling water soak/flush several more times, until the barrel warms back up. Then back to the breech to muzzle brush another dozen times.

Repeat as necessary until flush water looks clear at end of cycle.


Then go back to standard method of bore cleaning with brush, patches, and preferred product. [JB for me] before Hoppes 9 and oil. You will find the patches coming out much cleaner much quicker.

JM2c......YMMV depending on bore crustiness to start with.

[Divernhunter]

Wipe-Out then Sweets 7.62 then Kroil oil and JB paste if really bad. Back to Wipe-Out and then oil when done.

[louie]

I agree w/ the guy who said, shoot it hot!! Then clean it up, and repeat. There's a chance it will never be shiny again, but who looks down the bore but you. Over the last forty years of shooting old surplus rifles etc. I have found some bores will look like s@#t, and still shoot like a charm. Others you can shave in, and shoot so so. Until you fire that baby, you really never know. When you look down a bore and it looks like a shotgun, you got problems. Also when the muzzle is counter bored, but really isn't, it's probably shot out. Some muzzles will swallow a bullet to the shoulder, and aren't counter bored. These are probably shot out guns.