If it gets fired, it gets cleaned.
If it sits too long without getting fired, it gets cleaned.
If it's going up for sale, it gets cleaned.
Take it home clean it yourself (you're going to anyway) and enjoy your new found gem!
What if it's not so much a "gem" under all the crud? That's the sticky wicket.
That has made me shy away from purchasing some milsurp stuff at my most favorite LGS (Bradis *cough*) on a couple of their older Turk Mausers... can't really tell what's cosmoline and what's corrosion. Please note that I am a happy Bradis customer and would recommend them to anyone, but I was just not sure about the Turks that I looked at. If they would let me bring in a cleaning kit and run it down the bore, I would...You are right. One time I purchased a 22 rifle from a gun show and took the guns word that it was just dirty. When I got home and gave it a good cleaning I found that half the rifling was corroded away.
Guy I just bought one from didn't and it cost him. I wouldn't give him his asking price because the bore was ugly. Turns out it just needed cleaning. For 1/2 hour of work he woulda made $50 more.
Just doesn't make sense to me....
If it gets fired, it gets cleaned.
If it sits too long without getting fired, it gets cleaned.
If it's going up for sale, it gets cleaned.
Guy I just bought one from didn't and it cost him. I wouldn't give him his asking price because the bore was ugly. Turns out it just needed cleaning. For 1/2 hour of work he woulda made $50 more.
Just doesn't make sense to me....
That has made me shy away from purchasing some milsurp stuff at my most favorite LGS (Bradis *cough*) on a couple of their older Turk Mausers... can't really tell what's cosmoline and what's corrosion. Please note that I am a happy Bradis customer and would recommend them to anyone, but I was just not sure about the Turks that I looked at. If they would let me bring in a cleaning kit and run it down the bore, I would...
surprised that they wouldnt let you. probably if they only had one they would have let you. since they had those in surplus they didnt want to waste their time letting you do it becasue they think that you would want to do it to all of them until you found the right one. Then if they let you do it others would want to do it to.