Stinky rifle and sling

The Longbranch sporter that I recently acquired seems to "have an air" about it. I have isolated the odor mostly to the sling that was on it.

In the mass of knowledge that is out there, have you guys run across this before?

I have had stinky web gear, and I know that it can be carefully washed and stretched to dry. How about wood and leather? Seems to me I have some Russian Mosin leather gear that is odorous as well, that is tucked away in a plastic bag somewhere.

Soak in bleach/detergent water?

Most of my really stomach turning stinky web gear is U.S. made. washing works for a while, especially if done multiple times back to back. Some stuff seems immune, not sure why.

Scout7, take handwarm water and add soft detergent for wool in it put the leather in and leave it for 1-2 hours in it. Then let it dry not in the sun or with an hairdryer or else.
Otherwise it will shrink and can break. After that take a good leatheroil and apply as much layers til the leather dont soak anymore. If its hard then pull it several times by both sides over an broomstick or something else. Normaly it belongs using this procedure one time otherwise do it again

Rgeards

Gunner

use a nose plug. they got electric ones available...
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I will try the soaking in mild soap/detergent method for the sling and see what happens. I have some "mink oil" or other leather treatment around here somewhere that I can use after it dries.

Thanks for the ideas!

The problem is easily solved by using the traditional method of applying "Blanco". If Blanco is not available, the modern sustitute is "Quippy" 103 KHAKI (made by Carr & Day Martin LTD, Wilmslow, ENGLAND). Care should be taken NOT to cover the brass (use a button stick if necessary). Then polish the brass and (carefully) re-attach the rifle sling.

It's 'that' smell that gives rifles their distinct air of authenticity. It's the same smell that penetrates real Armourers overalls. It's the same smell that tells a real Armourer when a No4T is the real thing or not. It is a mixture of a bit of old fashioned sweat, elbow grease, mixed with a bit of old OIL, OX52, some OX18 and 24 plus a bit of GREASE XG279. Add in a bit of character and a slight hint of old hot animal glue and a slight whiff of old webbing and leather and you have the distinct smell of an Armourers shop.

There's nothing clinical about my Armourers shops. In fact the Armourer S/Sgt brought his kids up recognising that smell

i don't know if i posted here or not. but when i got my Yugo M57 tokarev it cam with a near new holster. the holster stunk so bad i could smell it from feet or more. i was wondering what to do so i asked my mom what we had for leather treatment. she came back with a container of "Weiman leather wipes" i tok one and rubbed it down. let it dry, then later did it again. no oder. i wiped down every other day, once a day for a week. and 2 months later it still smells great... Weiman has a nice citrus smell, but it does not linger, and you get your leather aroma back...

It was thought that old webbing gear could contain Leptospirosis (Weil's Disease). AFAIK, It is still recommended that suspect webbing be disinfected using Jeyes fluid or something similar.

Most of my Enfield have the residue of Best Bitter all over them. It is a better peservative than BLO.

We have carried out trials to enlarge the stock bolt hole in order to carry a moderate hip flask, but the contents did not survive the trip to the range as the resulting range targets showed.

Seriously: "Bullets and Booze don't mix".

Google “How to clean leather”

Google “Leather forums”

Google “Horse tack forums”

And last but not least………..

Let’s find out how old Mr. Laidler really is and ask how the Armourers cleaned the leather tack gear and got the horse sweat smell out of leather.:yikes:

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No horses in my Armourers shops Ed, just the smell of the now obsolete OX52 oil. While the OX52 is out of date here, it's STILL the rifle oil used in India!

I did try googling it, got a million different opinions and advertisements. Was looking for ideas that had been tried by forum members, hopefully with success!

Has anyone tried the old standby, 10% bleach and water? That pretty much kills all the bugs, might be too harsh for the leather though.

It always puzzles me why the sword was mounted that way round - if one was to reach across with the right hand and draw it out it the grip would be back the front.

Rowdy- maybe all British horse troopers were left-handed? It could happen.
Donzi

They've all changed recently Donzi. They're all RIGHT handed now so as to use the SA80 rifle.