Cleaning my M1???

[wisconsinteacher]

Any tips or ideas to some how plug the end of the barrel so I can pour some #9 and let it sit over night? I put some patches in the muzzle but the #9 did drain through. I thought I had cleaned this rifle better last year but wow is it dirty. I only ran 50-70 rounds through it this summer. I am guessing the 1943 barrel is not the smoothest so it fouls up fast.

 

[truck driver]

I the old days we used to strip them down and put the action in boiling water so it would dry when we pulled them out. That would get just about all the carbon out. We would then clean with military bore cleaner and wipe every thing down with the same cleaner. If you have a gas plug wrench I would pull and clean the piston. I haven't done this since back in in the 1970s when I was forced to carry the beast. What ever you pour in the barrel will seep out the gas port holes.

 

[Divernhunter]

Wipe-out and be done

 

[Wincheringen]

If there was ever a rifle to clean with a warm bore, the M1 is it. I always give mine a quick scrub at the range after shooting. They clean up a lot faster with a warm bore.

 

[1Shot]

Best way I have found to really clean the bore on my M1 is to remove the barreled action and dismantle the op rod and bolt and remove the gas plug. I leave the gas tube alone because I have mine staked on in the prefect spot for my rifles accuracy. I then spray the bore full of GUNSLICK foaming bore cleaner. Follow the directions on the can. It works perfectly for me. I do not use a cleaning rod either. I use a piece of weed eater line. Make it about a foot longer than the barrel then sharpen one end and with a flame heat the other end until it starts to melt and then press it against something like a coffee cup to form a button on the end. Stick the sharp end in the middle of a cleaning patch and pull the patch down to the button. Then stick the sharp end into the muzzle end and push it down the bore and pull it out the breach end pulling the patch down the bore. I do this until I get a clean patch. Then I pull an lightly oiled patch through the bore. I also clean out the gas tube with this weed eater line cleaner and some #9. Using the weed eater line will not harm the crown of the barrel like you can with rubbing it with a cleaning rod.