The Found M1

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OK,
Right I have started to strip the M1.
It is durty. Dirty old dry oil / greese with dust.

The question is :-
do I clean or do i not clean ?

It is hard to see serial No,s withh the muck and
I dont have however any intention of ever shooting the gun
as
one, I do not want too,
two, I do not have any amo. no cases, Not a problem though as I can make the cases and everything else necessary to reload.
Three, I do not have any charger clips.
So to not touch just a take apart and record what I see may be one way.
To clean and remove all muck and re greese, well that is the other way.

The wood needs to be fed that is for sure, just one tiny crack in the top rear hand gard not a worry though.
The surfase of the blued areas have a patina a sort of corrosion with no pitting but the surfaces are not smooth.
I cannot see anything broken, there are now odd spots clean because I have worked the action a bit.
The internals are in a very good condition, just the tube has the patina as well.

For me to clean or not is a hard one.
Sorry spelling is a little off today.