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Nnanji -> RE: Cleveland Police to not allow open carry during RNC (7/18/2016 11:14:16 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: Nnanji
Tell you what, I have a Colt SAA with a serial number in the low 10,000's which makes its manufacture date 1874. Which, of course is a black powder gun. I shot it once to just say I did. I took me three days to get all of the black powder residue off. I frankly don't know how any of them could have survived and you're welcome to yours.
Well that is where being a history major kind of comes in.
Many years ago I bought an old trunk that had belonged to a Texas Ranger who also rode with the Texas Cavalry during the civil war. In it was a journal in which he went into great detail on how he kept his pistols and carbine clean after firing them.....
He boiled the parts in coffee.
It seems that the acids in coffee is the best at cutting powder residue from those old pistols and rifles. He carried a coffee pot to make coffee he was going to drink, and a soup pan to boil coffee to clean his guns. I tried it and damn if it worked great.
So, not doubting you in the least but expressing a fear. Take a 142 year old gun and ignore all modern cleaning supplies that have been developed in super custom labatories and instead boil it in coffee. I'll assume you take the grips off first. But what is that coffee acid going to do to the remaining 142 year old bluing. I'm betting the old Texas Ranger was more concerned with rust in the barrel than market value, and if I were he I'd probably feel the same. But you say you've tried it. I just think I'd want to see you so it to your gun first.
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