Message from @Crow
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lol
cosmoline is going to come out of the stock; shouldn't be coming out of any of the metal interfaces
a tight lockup on the lugs is probably good
you can get a gunstore to use a go/nogo gauge to be 100% sure that it's safe but a little tightness there is expected since that's the primary bearing surface (Other than the cartridge itself)
you can get someone to do a custom fit pretty easily by hand polishing or milling but I would not recommend it without taking it to someone qualified
I have helped with doing the measurements for taking meat off the locking lugs; it's a pretty scary operation tbh.
I didn't trust myself to do manual milling and take off a couple thousandths of material to ensure completely accurate alignment with the barrel extension
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I cleaned the cosmoline from the bayonet & the Mosin-Nagant's multi-tool set, @EndangeredProdigy. 😁
i tore mine down the other day and cleaned the hell out of everything
i dont even fire corrosive ammo but man did it need it
doing a detail strip and borrowing someone's ultrasonic cleaner is a good plan
lol
@Miss Direction After I did all that, I ended up restaining the stock on my Mosin. The original had speckles from where the cosmoline had ruined the original stain.
I feel my brain cells dying just listening to them...
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If you couldn't have traditional powder propellant for guns, what would be your next choice?
I was gonna say I forgot about the solid propellants and the 'forbidden pasta', so thank you for staying on board.
Yeah, I was thinking air as well.
Yeah I’ll just spray someone down with airsoft pellets from an expensive airsoft gun
Costs about as much as a hi point pistol
pressurrized air can be fairly deathly problem is getting alot of shots downrange and still maintaining power
the Girandoni air rifle had enough air for 20-30 shots with acceptable power, and that's a late 1700's design, doing significantly better today can't be hard
I'm finding air gun muzzle velocities top out at about 1500 ft/s, which is...servicable.
If you apply that to a .58 caliber 500 gr Minnie round then you have an air powered 1861 Springfield Rifle which is extremely deadly
"350 grain"
There is not a single grain involved here.
Pressurized air doesn't give us enough performance density
because you're dealing with a pressure differential
nah, pressurized air rifles have been used for warfare since the late 1700's
I know they've been used; they just aren't comparable to magazine fed nitrocellulose powered projectiles
coilguns are too shit tier, railguns need too much power
although I expect at some point we'll have good enough high current tech to make electrically propelled projectiles down the road
well yeah, obviously if they were *as good* as traditional powder we'd still see them in active service today, the question is what's the *next best thing* if you can't have powder
just make black powder
but if all of the oxidizing agents went away
still powder