Tips and Hacks for Cleaning aRemington 700 Rifle Bolt

Tips and Hacks for Cleaning aRemington 700 Rifle Bolt

One of the things that is overlooked most of the time when a rifle is cleanedis the bolt including the extractor, and the ejector plunger.

One of the little tricks that I have found that works for me is I take the bolt and I clamp it in some sort of a vise at an angle and I put the ejector plunger facing the bottom from my Remington 700https://www.remington.com/rifles/bolt-action/model-700. Hyskore www.hyskore.comin .270 https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle/270-win-145-gr-eld-x-precision-hunter#!/makes an excellent product for this, it’s their #30182 Portable Gun Vise https://hyskore.com/products/30182-portable-armorers-vise/. It allows the bolt (or the entire gun) to be held firmly and rotated 360 degrees. This is available from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/HYSKORE-1003633-Hyskore-Portable-Armorers/dp/B00CQ7KRVC/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2RTM95RDAVUX7&dchild=1&keywords=hyskore+vise&qid=1573757136&sprefix=hyskore%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-6. What I do is take a little bit of carburetor cleaner and I squirt and let it kind of lay right down and let it sink down into the ejection plunger chamber. And what that does is it kind of softens up the crud and everything, because after a number of rounds through a weapon, you’ll find they’ll be microscopic particles of brass that will start to go in there and it will inhibit the ejector and plunger from working freely. After that, you let that set for a while. Hyskore to the rescue again here. They make the perfect gun parts cleaning accessory. It’s their #30293 Degreezerhttps://hyskore.com/products/30293-degreezer-small-parts-cleaning-system/ Small Parts Cleaner. It is a small solvent resistant tank with a well and a small parts drain basket. What you do is you take some pointed device, whether it be a screwdriver, and you use that to work up and down to make sure the plunger is free and as you work it up and down, give it another shot of carburetor cleaner, and you’ll find if you look really close, there’ll be some bubbles come out. What that is, is we’ve got some fluid down inthere and we’re causing a hydraulic action and as we push the ejector plunger down, it’s forcing the fluid out and with the fluid comes some of the foreign material that we’re trying to get out of there. Now, once you do that and you get that good and free, take the bolt out of the vise, tap it, and let it set for four or five minutes to let everything drain out of there.Once that’s all drained out, re-insert it into the vice the same way but this time take someGunslick lubricant,and put a couple of drops of oil on it and I let it set for a minute and then again, taking a small screwdriver work the ejector plunger up and down. Again, you’ll see some bubbles come out. What I’m doing is I’m allowing enough oil to get down in thereand, when you push that down, up and down a number of times, you’ll find that the hydraulic action will push most of the oil in and any other foreign material out of there and at the same time be lubricating. This is one of the things that’s very much overlooked. Now, if you have a Saco type extractor and bolt face, you can do the same thing on the plunger over on the other side.The one I’m using does not have a socket type extractor, but it has a plunger in it, and you can do the same thing. Take out the bolt and stand it up and let the excess drain out of it and you’re ready to rock and roll. This process also works well on a Mauser 98 Style Bolt which is almost the same as a 1903 Springfield https://www.springfield-armory.com/xdm-series/ Bolt. You might do a Google or Hey Siri search for the particular type of bolt your gun has to see how this might work for you.