Brushing the Bolt of a Ruger Mark 2 Gun

Video Transcript

"Alright, we let the brake freeze set in. Get good soaked into the metal here. Eat up some of this gunk. We have four brushes here. Now I personally an not opposed to using wire brushes. I have a soft brass brush here. I have a light, very, very light steel brush here and I mostly use this brush for the bolt face and the ramp inside because those are some of the biggest buildup areas and I'm not concerned with those using the metal brushes on those areas because I don't have bluing to scratch off. And then we have some nylon brushes. We have an old toothbrush here and then an old nylon brush here that we're going to use on the outside areas of the bluing and around the actions. So, I'm going to start with my light steel brush and I'm going to take my bolt and I'm just going to give it a good scrub across the bolt face. Its surprising how when you are out playing around and shooting at the range or on your land how dirty things can get. You're thinking that you only shot off fifty rounds or something before and right before that this thing was spotless, but to have a good working firearm, you need to have a good clean firearm. So, I'm going to keep scrubbing here and I'm going to follow this around, I'm going to clean this recoil spring. Once again, we're not worried about necessarily using this steel brush because the bluing, we're not concerned about bluing on the outside of the firearm here, this is an inside working and this is where most of the gunk and buildup's going to occur is here on the bolt face and then sometimes on the inside of the action which we'll get to here in a minute. Alright, that looks to be pretty clean there. Now, depending on how things are going, it may be cleaner, it may be dirtier, you may need to take a little bit longer, but next we're going to pickup the lower receiver and we're going to scrub on it."