Parking the Enfield

Let's say you came from the range after shooting your Enfield, or any rifle for that matters. You spent time cleaning it and oiling its barrel. Now you might end storing on its end, muzzle side up. And so stays the rifle for a while for whatever reason.

And maybe dirt/dust and small animals decide to get into the barrel. Is there a good way to prevent that to happen?

One morning you see the birds chirping, the cows flying just right above the clouds, an decide it is a good day to go shooting. Do you do a quick barrel cleaning/gun inspecting before taking it for some family friend shooting?

Just cut a finger off of an old rubber glove & drop it over the muzzle.
If it's a #1 then it's a tad harder as the barrel is inside the stock.

"the cows flying just right above the clouds"
Remember to shout "PULL!" before aerial cow shooting.

You just made me picture using my old socks over the muzzle side of the rifle ;)

I talked about heavy oiling a gun and he said problem is if you have gun standing nose up, the oil will make its way down past the breech and then wherever it wants to.

You could always put a large patch in the chamber to catch any oil. Just make sure you run a rod through to get the patch out and take off the excess oil.

There's things called "Finger cotts"  Basically a finger-sized condom, but thicker. They're used in industry a lot where you need the dexterity of the hand, but can't have finger prints on the item being handled.


We used to get a good laugh during safety orientations when we'd bring out the bags of a thousand or so, all marked as "Small", "Medium", or "Large". Large was to fit over the average thumb & small on a tiny pinky.

I usually store muzzle down for the first couple of days. By the time I flip the rifle muzzle up any oil that's going to run has. Right onto the wad of newsprint the muzzle is standing on.

raubvogel wrote: You just made me picture using my old socks over the muzzle side of the rifle ;) I talked about heavy oiling a gun and he said problem is if you have gun standing nose up, the oil will make its way down past the breech and then wherever it wants to.

Any one ever use petroleum jelly for gun storage ????  old Man down the street ,( Cotton Mouths Grandfather) used Petroleum jelly on his guns !!  I have also heard it called carbonated petroleum jelly , but have never been able to find it ...I have heard this from several older Gentlemen from around here to New Orleans !!
Whats great is that a light film will last forever ..and unless the heat gets excessive it wont run ...