M-1 muzzle guide rod

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  • PWC
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 1401
    #1

    M-1 muzzle guide rod

    I scrounge unusual brass from the range when I find it. A looong time ago I needed to clean an M-1 but didn't have a guide for the rod for the muzzle.

    Looking thru my junk box for a "tool," (I never know what I'm looking for until I see something from which a "hidden tool" can be made) I found a suitable piece of brass. I had range pick up of several Weatherby 378 mag cases. ( yeah, go figger)

    I cut one off and drilled out the primer to fit my cleaning rod, and it worked.

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    So, for grins and giggles, I offer it to you if you want it, and have a high roller that leaves big brass in the weeds.

    The Otis system works better tho......
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    • nf1e
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2012
      • 2140
      #2
      Very nice for sure. I gave up using rods on my M1s and M14s long ago. Instead I have been using an OTIS cable pull through and even use them on my precision bolt rifles nowadays. Whatta Hobby!

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        • Johnny P
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2009
          • 6272
          #3
          Some may remember the South Korean issue M1 Rifles that came back quite a few years back. A local shop boughtt 10 or so, and every barrel had been whipped out apparently with the jointed steel cleaning rods. Some would take a military round dropped in the muzzle all the way up to the shoulder, and all were bad to some extent.

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            • lyman
              Administrator - OFC
              • Aug 2009
              • 11333
              #4
              Originally posted by Johnny P
              Some may remember the South Korean issue M1 Rifles that came back quite a few years back. A local shop boughtt 10 or so, and every barrel had been whipped out apparently with the jointed steel cleaning rods. Some would take a military round dropped in the muzzle all the way up to the shoulder, and all were bad to some extent.
              made a few bucks back then putting new Douglas or USGI barrels on them,
              some were actually oval or egg shaped, as in put a bullet in the muzzle, and it would pass, as in not sink, but you could wobble it back in forth in at least one dimension,

              got a lot of experience with a sand blaster and phosphate tank by redoing blue sky guns

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                • PWC
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2009
                  • 1401
                  #5
                  Had a friend that bought a Blue Sky and the front sight had to be moved so far to the right it looked like the sniper scope but on the right side.

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