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Neat ideas on getting rid of the cosmoline. Whatever I did was good enough for the simple SKS design, because I took it out to the range today and shot it for I think its very first time ever. Worked like a champ, no problems at all and especially none of the dreaded slamfires (I was waiting for one). My only complaint (not about the rifle) is the 10 round strippers I was able to buy locally don't work too well, they stick and I wouldn't really want to have to rely on these guys to get 10 rounds loaded in a hurry. Years ago I used Mauser 5 round strippers in a K98 and they worked a lot better than these rough things! But even so, the SKS is a lot of fun to shoot - I just placed an order for 1000 rounds of 7.62x39 from one of the surplus places, can't wait.
By the way, what exactly is CLP? I use gun scrubber in a can or non-chlorinated brake cleaner in a can sometimes, followed by immersion or wiping with Hoppes #9 solvent, followed by wiping and oiling with some Hoppes gun oil or RemOil in a can. Since the Hoppes is largely kerosene with some other stuff, I wonder if it has enough lubricating ability to just fire a gun after cleaning off the dirt with Hoppes, and omitting the oiling parts of the cleaning procedure.
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