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If I clean a rifle barrel and don't intent to shoot it in the near future, I'll run an oily swab through the bore, not much oil, just four or five drops on a patch. Then I'll store the rifle muzzle down in a tin can for a couple of months, most people would be astonished how much oil drains down into the can over time!
 
Guns in the mail! (oh, those Canada Post damage threads have me crapping).
A couple pics from CJ Dawe:
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Brian, I love that Lang back action!
 
Was reading a gunsmithing book and he advocated muzzle down storage as well. So I did it and we had a flood in the basement ( the safe has since been moved) while on vacation. Very scary. Now store them muzzle up again.

Londonshooter said:
Yes, also supporting the case for storing guns muzzle-down. I expect that Chris rebuilt the head with new wood.
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Thanks guys for the empathy and comments. And thanks, Chris! 'Twas a sad day when it broke but no wonder it did.
I'll post a photo or two with locks removed when its in hand. We're going to see a whole lot of epoxy I think. Gun has very high condition pattern Damascus bbls to reunite with the stocks and action.
When parcel arrives it will also mean the return of the Atkin side lever sidelock ejector, which came out fantastic. I love hammer guns but that one is something else.
 
handofzeus said:
I used to swear by this practice until the day about 10 years ago when I put my new Marlin XL 7 30-06 away without knowing the cat had peed on the foam inside the cabinet when I wasn't looking. I put 5-10 rounds through that gun that day and not one since. I can't even bring myself to look at it. 1/2" of muzzle inside and out completely rusted and pitted. It sat in the urine for a week before I took it out and noticed. Those 10 rounds were and are the only rounds fired in that rifle to this day
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Just get it cut and recrowned, problem solved
 
Bland said:
Was reading a gunsmithing book and he advocated muzzle down storage as well. So I did it and we had a flood in the basement ( the safe has since been moved) while on vacation. Very scary. Now store them muzzle up again.
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Easier to cut an inch off the muzzle then to repalce a butt stock/whole stock, isnt it? If there is time to rust out steel (pits, not surface rust) that would do a number on some wood
 
Evanguy said:
Easier to cut an inch off the muzzle then to repalce a butt stock/whole stock, isnt it? If there is time to rust out steel (pits, not surface rust) that would do a number on some wood
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You can replace wood. You can never replace steel. It depends on the value of your guns. Most of those of us who shoot fine shotguns find the idea of cutting the barrels abhorrent.
 
I have always loved old & new side lock shotguns ,,,,,,,, Except this part . As wood gets old & oil soaked it is very hard to glue.
Making new side lock stocks is extremely expensive & often turns these guns into "parts guns " . Sad to say !
 
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