Advice from Anschutz on cleaning your smallbore rifle

Sparks

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In case it's of use to anyone. Who still thinks their rifle can be saved

Vegeta

What the hell, surely its some engrish or something

Not sure how safe this is for work but its generally ok:
http://www.engrish.com/

rrpc

I think that must mean 'safed' as in safety engaged. Typical literal translation, past tense of safe is saved

When babelfish and photoshop go wrong......

It wasn't me!

Hmm, I don't use a brass brush, just oil and cleaning felts really. Barrel still comes out shiny.

Use the brush, you will be surprised.

then use IRLConor's magic blue paste - you will be very surprised.

Grizzly 45

Direct translation from German would be.
"Waffe darf nicht gesichert sein" in English the guns saftey catch must not be on safe.

It wasn't me!

Deleted User wrote: »

Use the brush, you will be surprised.

then use IRLConor's magic blue paste - you will be very surprised.

I use the blue paste every so often for a magic clean, it's a bit scary, but the results are clear.

Grizzly 45

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Direct translation from German would be.
"Waffe darf nicht gesichert sein" in English the guns saftey catch must not be on safe.

'"Waffe darf nicht gesichert sein"
The gun is not allowed to be secured is the way I would have read that.

I am surprised that there is no specific word for safety catch in German!

rrpc

Deleted User wrote: »

'"Waffe darf nicht gesichert sein"
The gun is not allowed to be secured is the way I would have read that.

I am surprised that there is no specific word for safety catch in German!

Why would you be surprised?

becuase the germans are fantastic for mashing words together!!

waffensicherheitschalter or something similar should be the word!

Grizzly 45

Waffen sicherungs mechanismus [firearms saftey mechanism] or Waffen sicherungs schalter.[firearms saftey switch,catch]
Good enough??;)

rrpc

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becuase the germans are fantastic for mashing words together!!

Now you're missing the point .

It's a kind of tongue in cheek cultural reference. You only need the word if you need the device.
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Grizzly 45

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Waffen sicherungs mechanismus [firearms saftey mechanism] or Waffen sicherungs schalter.[firearms saftey switch,catch]
Good enough??;)

I was expecting a composition of the following:

switch-that-prevents-firing-be-it-through-accident-or-design-of-your-rifle-but-which-should-not-be-relied-upon-to-prevent-accidents

Now that would be a cool German word.