General Purpose or Practical Rifles?
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Ardent
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Lived that life, and with blued, and stainless rifles. The stainless was definitely better, though with Eezox I was able to keep a Merkel .375 double rifle impressively clean. The stainless literally lived wet and never needed anything except periodic sand cleanings. It got cased and worried about a lot less than the Merkel too, so overall its duty cycle was more severe.
Joel, people have done it for years. The irony is that many stainless rifles are stainless where you see them and blued were you can’t. How wonderful.
No kidding! They have?
Well aware that blued firearms have been around for a hot minute. I was asking to hear what products people like, what they don't like, their experience with them, maintenance routines, etc.
Just like asking the fellow with the blued tikka how long he has had his out in the rain.
There we go. Heard good things about the Eezox, but interesting to hear just where and what the limitations are, compared to stainless. How much attention were you paying the Merkel?
Recently scored a couple bottles of Corrosion-X, but while it at least isn't salt water exposure, the weather as of late has been, how do you say, poop.
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Might be the only legitimate use of WD-40 for a gun.
Stainless guns still require maintenance the polish and finish seem to have some effect in picking up corrosion.
Well polished blued rifles seem to resist corrosion very well.
Stainless guns still require maintenance the polish and finish seem to have some effect in picking up corrosion.
Well polished blued rifles seem to resist corrosion very well.
Yeah, not maintenance free by any stretch...but I think Ardent summed that up pretty well in saying that the blued rifle definitely required more care. Although I hear you on not all stainless guns being equal either!
Dunno much about grades but rough, pitted "matte" for lack of a better word stainless kinda sucks compared to GOOD stainless finishes, which is what I think you mean? Definitely!
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
The Model 70 New Haven classic stainlesses literally receiver zero care, oil only made an emulsion that collected sand. They rode the gunnel in the boat, leaned up under alders in the rain, slept in humid tents… and I never had a single issue with them. The Merkel, I’d wipe it every couple days with Eezox, it held up pretty well but if you stopped maintaining it would make you worry one morning. Totally maintainable with effort however, it lived a lot longer than most hunting rifles do in their career out in the ####. But I stayed on it. My Glock I just hosed with WD periodically, it rusted.
I remember seeing how well the vaunted "Tenifer" finish held up.
Or didn't.
That Mossberg shotgun too. Hoo boy.
Let's say with a blued bolt action rifle, would you be removing it from the stock and giving it the eezox treatment every few days, punching the bore and drying it, etc...with no regard to zero loss? (not that I'm hunting far enough to really worry about a round thrown off an inch or two)
Or didn't.
That Mossberg shotgun too. Hoo boy.
Let's say with a blued bolt action rifle, would you be removing it from the stock and giving it the eezox treatment every few days, punching the bore and drying it, etc...with no regard to zero loss? (not that I'm hunting far enough to really worry about a round thrown off an inch or two)
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I never had a blued bolt action out there in the #### season, just the nicer weather Aug-Sept. For blued rifles, only the double which you can pop the fore end off and get under went out in the worst of it. The buttstock is tightly fitted enough I never had to pull it, I did tung oil the wood heavily including the inletting, it beaded water nicely. I did see some clients blued rifles that weren’t cared for grow some stuff that will certainly have added character to them, to this day. Depended on the season, late season and early spring was the hardest, Sept was alright.
Did you have any gun oil/grese that didn't perform when it came to corrosion protection?
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I have a few times but only a couple times a year. I found wet snow was my one and only problem causing a factory savage stock to warp. Stainless wouldn’t have helped that any. I’ve no doubt stainless is better, especially if you can’t wipe em down. Alberta isn’t the wet coast either so for me, and 50 years ####’n around in the bush I’ve never seen an issue with blued steel. Check your trigger out on your stainless rifles. That’s more of a concern for me than a character mark on a barrel. 100yr old blued rifles still work just fine with a little care.
What I meant when I made my statement was I certainly wouldn’t discount a blued rifle if it checked most of the other boxes.
Cheers!
There was a lube test for protection a ways back, I remember some frog piss and wd-40 specialist long term corrosion inhibitor were the ones that provided the best corrosion protection. The rest of the field wasn’t close to those two. I do miss the smell of g96. I got the wd specialist because the froggy stuff wasnt findable at the time but walfart had online order to store on the wd-40, it’s meh on smell. Regular wd-40 didn’t stand out and ran with the pack in those that didn’t make the top two category...from recollection. Someone will have that link somewhere.
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Here be the best corrosion stopper I've used for my guns,tools and automotive/marine electrical preservation. I only use WD for nuking wasp & hornet nests and on me fishing lures.
Can Tire carries it and it don't cost a lot.
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