This is how bad the finish is on Remington 870s
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Butcherbill
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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
I have both old and new express models, the only time I’ve ever seen surface rust on either of them is from my sweaty hand prints. My sweat will do this to any blued gun I own, rain has done nothing to start rust on my 870’s but I oil the exterior regularly. The bead blasted finish will hold grease or oil well. Same as parkerizing, try the grease trick. It works well.
p.Rundle
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My Deer Hunter Express 870 always has a bit of rust on it, even after I've rubbed in Balistol. It's always that ways. G96 works a little better, but it's just awful. It lives in a safe with lots of silicone packets in Alberta and still rusts after 4 ish months. What a joke.
Butcherbill
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
No, it’s no different than wiping it down with an oily rag. The grease gets wiped off once it cools and solidifies, there’s hardly any left that you would notice to the touch. Another alternative is to use a paste furniture wax, same process. Warm the metal and rub the wax on lightly. Buff/rub off the excess, it works on wood stocks and metal equally well.
The sand blasted finish of the express will hold wax or grease etc well due to the texture, I still wipe them dry and wipe with an oily rag when they get wet but since I did the grease trick 3-4 years ago there’s been zero surface rust. As a test I started storing them in a soft case to see if I could encourage rust to bloom after all the internet reports of how bad the finish was, nothing happened.
Hopefully you can clean it up and avoid this in the future, seeing that would be pretty discouraging. The grease or wax treatment cost almost nothing and it works well, it would be my first step.
nothing wrong with the 870 just give it a little love
S&J Hardware are holding their annual "870 CeraKote Special" again. Definitely worth looking into. I had Simon do a S&W 3000 pump gun (870 clone) in Cobalt a few years ago with fantastic results for the money....
S&J Hardware are holding their annual "870 CeraKote Special" again. Definitely worth looking into. I had Simon do a S&W 3000 pump gun (870 clone) in Cobalt a few years ago with fantastic results for the money....
Is it me or does that barrel look like a warped noodle?
Barney, Browning BPS's have a similar affliction in the Salt Marsh off of Steveston as the SPS.
Not anywhere close to the results of the picture posted, but rust would come off in the rag when wiped down with G-96 at the end of the shoot.
Not sure of G-96 or your choice of lubricant and some ###fine steel wool will take care of the 870 Express, but it might not hurt any either.
Rob
They must have used this same technique on a few guns. The barrel on my 597 has pores that are rust stained that nothing seems to he able to reach. Under the right light the barrel has a red tint.
S&J Hardware are holding their annual "870 CeraKote Special" again. Definitely worth looking into. I had Simon do a S&W 3000 pump gun (870 clone) in Cobalt a few years ago with fantastic results for the money....
I JUST saw that... set a reminder for myself to look at that for 870
Blackboxcustoms charges $400 for the same thing, without the extra bonus parts either. My only concern is quality of work, and i've also heard janky stories about people trying to buy stuff from them
This was approximately 6 hours, overnight camping. No rain, clear skies.
Weapon was obviously not rusty at all before
Interesting photos, at least some of those rust spots look to be "fingerprint"=shaped. I've never seen that on my own Express (or anything even close) but I've also never had occasion to leave it outdoors overnight. Even if I can't see fingerprints, I assume they're there after shooting...so after every outing, the guns get a wipe down with an oily rag. If it's hot out, I may take a oiled rag in a ziploc freezer bag with me and wipe-off before the drive home. Only gun I might use in the rain IS a shotgun, so more than once..I've driven home with the gun disassembled/toweled-off. Gets oil when it gets home-inside/out.
Worst corrosion I see is on guns put away wet, or in a case that GOT wet after it was put away. Doesn't seem overly rare, on the bead-blasted/thin blue jobs common today, to have your oiled rag have a faint orange tinge when you wipe them down at the end of the day. Even when there is no sign of corrosion of any kind, and on guns I wipe down faithfully.
Actually, the surface created by sandblasting and then either bluing or parkerizing it, is a micro-structure designed to absorb and retain... oil!
Sorry OP, but I would suggest your issue was that the surfaces were not adequately oiled. From what I see, buffing that with an old T-shirt and WD40 will probably take it all off with minimal impact to what looks like an already-worn finish. No biggie. If you ever tire of that finish, you can cheaply blast and re-blue again, or look at something like Cerakote.
