Long Term Storage of Milsurp Rifles

Snuffy

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Is there a prefered method to moth ball old rifles?

Need to start protecting the rifles that I am not using for shooting.

These rifle will likel be placed in crate like enviroment.

Cosmonite seems awful messy.
 
Almost any grease that blocks contact with the open air is good. Plastic bags to keep the grease from evaporating or rubbing off. If you put them into crates, all you are doing is storing them in wooden boxes with handles. Better to leave them in the safe, but well protected.
 
Grease is good. Just a thin coat works. The ideal product is called RIG (Rust Inhibiting Grease), which is made specifically for firearms. I did a couple of long overseas tours and treated mine with RIG. They sat in crates in long term storage for several yrs and were golden when I got back to them.

The Army used to use grease which required a Varsol cleaning to remove. Nowadays they put them in plastic bags with a VCI rust inhibitor.
 
Snuffy said:
How do you prevent the stocks from absorbing the grease?

Do you have any pictures of a completed rifle?
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It is going to seem so simple when you read the next sentence. Take the rifle out of the wood. Soak the stock and handguards in linseed oil and pack separately along with whatever tools that are needed to reassemble them.
 
I got a role of VCI Plastic and oiled and wrapped each gun, they where over two years like this with no signs of rust. Advice when I purchased the VCI, oil gun (I use collector grade), use cotton gloves when putting them away so you don't leave finger acid on them. This can be a way also of protecting the wood from grease. Not cheap, but nether is the collection.

what I used : http://w w w.vappro.com/sub/vci-film-products.jsp
 
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