Tikka t3 barrel action rusting

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Buddy of mine has a tikka t3 in stainless that appears to be rusting. Its the stainless model and upon rubbing it down with G96 I couldnt find any rust but lots of dirt embedded but yet it still has a orange( Rust tint) to some parts of it. Any one else ever run into this ? Is the Tikka actually a stainless model or is there a coating that they use?

Any advise or good cooking recipes to share??:D
 
The only Tikka I have ever owned and will ever own looked like it was 40 years old and was stored in the boat house at the ocean. In two weeks of life in my gun locker it had become completely covered in rust. There was even some pitting starting. I returned it to the shop I had bought it from and was refunded on the spot. I know the owner well and he asked me what I had done to it. My only responce was made the mistake of buying it.
I know I will get a bunch of flak for this post and am sure that this is not the standard of Tikka ,but it is my experiance with their products. It may have just been one that slipped through and was not checked or missed an important part of the process.
 
Both stainless and blued firearms need constant attention esp. if kept in humid areas, you must use a good rust preventative on all firearms, and keep checking them for rust. New guns could very easily have rust on them before you even buy them.
 
The properties required for steel used in guns causes the stailess steel to be less resistant to rust than other stainless steels such as kitchen sinks. Or so I've read...
 
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Should have put this in my original post that its a matte stainless finish and not polished.Or more like a blasted finish.If it was polished I have stainless polishing wheels here and it would have been real shiney when I got done with it...:p
 
Wipe off the rust with a Rigg cloth or something similar, then use a non-abrasive carnauba wax on the gun and finish it with Boeing's Boeshield lubricant/protectant.
 
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A little preventative maintenance goes a long way on any rifle, be it stainless or not.
I had a few small orange flecks on one of my Tikkas that I bought used. Once or twice a year I remove the stock and wipe the entire barrel and action down with a rag soaked in LPS-3 Corrosion Inhibitor and never put it away wet.
 
Since the manufactures have convinced the shooting public that Matt Finnish weather stainless or blue is the way to go they have saved millions of $ not having to buff and polish a high luster blue will not pick up service rust like a porous Matt Finnish . Personal;y i hate Matt finishes on rifles and scopes.
 
A lot of people are under the false impression that their stainless action or barrel needs no attention after hunting in rain or snow. WRONG. Some even think that a wipe down on outside exposed surfaces required a mere wipe down with oil, wrong again. You need to seperate the barreled action from the stock and look underneath at the hidden surfaces. Moisture will travel underneath particularly if the barrel is free floated. Heck, I've even found rust on the inside bore of my scope rings.
 
i have a heavy barrel and was out coyote hunting when it was -30c, last winter. When i was done i put it in the gun case and closed it up and forgot about it. When i went to it later, the SS barrel had a rust spec on it. I should have taken it out, when i got it back to the house.:HR:
 
for some odd reason, people buy a stainless gun, and think that they never need to put a drop of oil on it. Stainless can still rust, it just takes longer. Stainless steel muflers are changed because they rust through, and look at stainless steel lawn furnature after its been out for a few years. The best thing that I've found for any gun is Birchwood Caseys Barricade, and get a good coat of break free on the trigger group.
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what kind of stainless steel guns (besides Tikkas apparently) are you guys finding to rust?

My old 629 rode in a shoulder holster or outside my raingear in coastal BC for years, no maintenance from spring to fall and not even a freckle.

My stainless Winchesters don't rust either, and I'm pretty hard on gear.

I think a lot of 'rust' is actually contamination from the beadblasting.
 
DO NOT POLISH STAINLESS WITH CARBON STEEL STEEL WOOL OR WIRE BRUSHES!

This will contaminate and embed cs into the surface of the stainless and the cs will corrode. Any stainless contaminated in this manner will soon be a mess of rust all over it and it is very hard to rectify. We have to ONLY use stainless wire brushes and grinder cups for stainless work at work for this very reason.

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They rust simply because the alloys used are Mertensitic (mostly in the SAE410 familly) and not Austenitic (wich are the 300 familly of SS). All current manufacturers use the same or close to the same types of SS for the barrels and actions. Any of then will rust, but some are adding an external coating for additional proctection.
 
Baribal said:
They rust simply because the alloys used are Mertensitic (mostly in the SAE410 familly) and not Austenitic (wich are the 300 familly of SS). All current manufacturers use the same or close to the same types of SS for the barrels and actions. Any of then will rust, but some are adding an external coating for additional proctection.
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You have had or seen a stainless steel gun that had actual rust and corrosion damage to the stainless steel? what kind of gun?
 
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