1853 Enfield

[essayons4791]

About ten months ago I bought one of those 1853 Enfields from IMA that were found in Nepal (they were only a couple of hundred bucks). My neighbor looked at it and said it was in decent mechanical condition, so maybe it'll be alright to shoot once I get it all cleaned up. I haven't seen it yet, seeing as how I've been in the middle east for about eleven months. Due to rotate home next month.
My question is this- how in the world can I clean out the barrel on the thing? Word has it that some of those nepal rifles are still loaded- so cleaning out the barrel properly is a big priority. I bought it as a wall hanger, not a shooter, so if I can't shoot it, no big deal. But if possible, I will shoot it once or twice. Any help you guys could give me would be appreciated.

[ArmySGT.]

Blow out any charge it might have safely with this.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0006480214461a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntt=CO2+discharger&Ntk=Products&sort=all&Go.y=0&_D%3AhasJS=+&N=0&_D%3Asort=+&Nty=1&hasJS=true&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form1&Go.x=0&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1

[Mr.B]

Heres a video of a guy that got an older rifle from the same place. Diffrent rifle same project so to say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37zZ8UKvqKY


-B

[essayons4791]

Hey,

Thanks for the replies. Maybe I'll try out one of those air pistols when I get back. But wouldn't an air compressor work too? Just curious.

[ArmySGT.]

Hey,

Thanks for the replies. Maybe I'll try out one of those air pistols when I get back. But wouldn't an air compressor work too? Just curious.

The CO2 is better because nothing can ignite from compression or friction, the CO2 smothers it.

[essayons4791]

Ok, that answers that. Thanks again for the help.