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

**Forgotten Weapons** Uploaded a new youtube video!
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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

<https://www.theboxotruth.com/educational-zone-23-cosmoline-removal/>

@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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYB6smGiZ44

https://youtu.be/aC_vSaNMrG0

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?

assuming solid propellants and similar "cheats" are also out, I'd go with pressurized air

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8JYjWitz0

"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

yeah, air.

Airguns are great for suppressing shit