Teen picks up trash armed with WWII gun

www.cnn.com ^ | 04/25/2013 | unknown

[redreno]

A man says he walks his neighborhood with a World War II rifle to pick up garbage and keep the area safe. WCNC reports.

[MasterGunner01]

The rifle is a No. 4 Mk 1 Lee-Enfield rifle that's been sporterized by shortening the forearm and handguard. You can identify it from the distinctive front sight and the detachable 10-round magazines of .303 ammunition he's carrying. This model of Lee-Enfield used either a 9-inch spike or blade bayonet.

[deks]

I went back to the video and paused it at the identifying frames. Thanks!

I’m interested in military surplus. I have just noticed that brand new Yugoslavian M57 Tokarev style pistols in 7.62x25 are now being imported from the Zastava factory. New, so not C&R. Good source and good price here. . .

http://www.wideners.com/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=100001108&dir=700%7C1012%7C1026

Same item with a better picture that can be enlarged is here. . .

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/7-GHG3087N

[deks]

I saw your thread some years ago on the utility of 7.62x25 semiautomatic surplus pistols. There are some newly manufactured M57 Tokarev style being imported now. See links at #22 . . .

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3013885/posts?page=22#22

[deks]

God price on 7.62x39 FMJ steel-case, non-corrosive 1000 rounds for $299.87

http://www.centuryarms.biz/proddetail.asp?prod=AM1468A

They sell to FFL Types 1, and 3 (C&R). Anyone else can buy non-firearms items like ammo when they have submitted the signed waiver necessary to open an account.

[deks]

Well, not exactly “God price” but *good* nevertheless :)

[Lurker]

We own two Ishapore Enfields. I wish I’d bought a dozen of them back when a “hand select” was $100.00. A truly great rifle. One of them I sporterized. It’s in a synthetic stock and was drilled and tapped. I put a nice Bushnell 4 power scope on it.

At 400 yards I can hit a ten inch target with every shot. Just wicked accurate. The action is slicker than a concrete driveway after an ice storm. Like I said, I wish I’d bought a dozen of them.

[marktwain]

We own two Ishapore Enfields. I wish I’d bought a dozen of them back when a “hand select” was $100.00.

I did. Sold every one. If we can make it through this administration, there are lots more items like the Ishapore out there waiting to be discovered.

[MasterGunner01]

As I recall, neither the Soviet TT30 or TT33 Tokarev pistols had manual safeties, so your Yugo M57 pistol is greatly improved by the addition of a safety. The 7.62x25 was often loaded hot for submachine guns, so some milsurp ammo may have more recoil than others.

Be very careful of milsurp ammo because it is often loaded with corrosive primers. If your M57 barrel is not chrome lined and you don't know whether your 7.62x25 ammo is corrosive primed or not, clean the pistol as if it was corrosive.

That means you clean the chamber and bore with hot, soapy water on the day you shoot it and three more days afterward [4 days total]. After the barrel gets the soap and water treatment, dry it thoroughly, and give it a light coat of oil. This same procedure should be followed with any suspected corrosive primed Combloc milsurp ammo.

It is very important to understand that current bore cleaners are NOT formulated to remove corrosive primer residue. Do not learn this lesson at the expense of a ruined barrel. Use hot, soapy water if you suspect corrosive primers.

[deks]

Thank you for that advice. Sounds like a lot of cleaning to make sure it doesn’t rust...had not heard about the 4 times. I was going to try surplus ammo, but I think for my amount of usage I could just use non-corrosive.

[MasterGunner01]

The USA stopped loading corrosive primer ammo in the mid 1950s, but Euro and Combloc ammo was loaded with corrosive primers into the mid-1980s.

I bought some great looking 7.62x39 from Steyr USA in the mid-1980s that was Yugoslavian and with corrosive primers. I shot it in my SKS and cleaned it as I would modern non-corrosive ammo. About three weeks later took the rifle down to cleck the action and the bolt would not move.

I used the heel of my shoe to open the bolt and when I looked inside there was all sorts of greenish crud growing there from the corrosive ammo. Fortunately, the SKS is designed for corrosive ammo and there was no damage. I then cleaned and oiled the piece as I would for corrosive ammo. The Steyr USA Yugoslavian ammo was gotten rid of.

Here's the way you check for a corrosive primer. Use a kinetic bullet puller and remove the powder and projectile. Chamber the primed case in your rifle and shoot it against a piece of bare steel. [Clean rifle bore.] Put the steel in a damp place and within 3-4 days you'll see a rust spot develop in the area that was exposed to the primer.

The Euros and Combloc countries phased in non-corrosive more quickly for commercial loadings than they did for military loadings. Supposedly, corrosive primers lasted longer in storage than non-corrosive. Now, all manufacturers use non-corrosive primers, but there's still tons of the old corrosive primer stuff around.

The reason why you must clean a barrel with hot, soapy water for four days after shooting corrosive ammo is the primer contains a salt. As the barrel heats up from firing, the salt crystals get trapped in the microscopic structure of the metal. As the barrel cools, these salts leech out and attract moisture. Steel + salt + moisture = rust. Using hot, soapy water will get rid of the salts that come out, but it takes four days to make certain you've gotten the salts out. Modern bore cleaners do not have the formulations to attack these salts and so you use hot, soapy water.