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Rusty barrel on my Winchester tool...maybe OT revisited

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Fred Werring

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Decided to steel wool and oil it...looks better than it did. Didn't spend a whole lot of time on it.

Been my experience gun barrels are a pain to keep rust free once they get pitted...why I thought rust converter might work. Knew bluing was a form of rust, but I was hopeful. And I'm not a member of the wipe-my-guns-down-weekly club, they usually just get brought out when something needs shot, and wiped down when they get put away. So they're slightly neglected.

As an aside, I remember when Dad talked Mom out of enough trading stamp books to get this rifle. Was too young at the time to understand the marriage dynamics going on, but I'll bet there was some serious sweet talking happening :)

Fred

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Have several I have rust problems with. Polish down rust with steel wool, and use cold bluing on a small cloth to rub down area to restore blue color. Clean thoroughly, to get extra bluing off. Then treat them with heavy oil, and hope I won't have rust to deal with again. Thinking I may start using gun grease to rub down those that don't get attention often enough.
 
Ya been years since I have even heard any body talk about the old trading stamps. My mom got me my first set of cook books with trading stamps. Wish I still had those book but some where along the way they took a hick and do not know who or where they went. I still have a 22 that my parents got me from Sears which of course now days they do not sell guns. Yep keeping guns rust free is a pain in the back sides
 
Got a couple 22's I keep in the barns, been using a spray on chain and cable lube on them, it's a heavy oil like your talking about. Works pretty good down there, been thinking about using it on the outside of all my guns.

Fred
 
A memory....was riding with my aunt and cousins, the car was about out of gas, running on fumes, she kept passing gas stations till she found one that gave green stamps. The car was cutting out as we pulled into the station.

Good times

Fred
 
Ya many time many older people would not shop at a place unless they gave out green stamps
 
Back in 1940, my uncle ordered a .22 rifle from Montgomery Ward catalog. When the rifle arrived, it was a substitute Remington semi-auto made on license from a Browning patent. My Dad mailed in an order and received the substitute rifle also. I put a not of rounds through that rifle. We always took good care of that gun. After Dad passed away, I took the rifle and kept it for years. Finally passed it on to Dad's great grandson, who was named after him. He still has that rifle; it's been in the family for 75 years now.
 
I might have one of them, Remington model 24, 1916 Browning patent. Neighbor gave it to me in about 1970 and said it was junk, jammed all the time. Its rough and I used to take it coon hunting for years, carried a can of carb. cleaner in hunting coat and when it jammed give it a quick flush.
 
And then there was the Haloween when the local jokesters took the S & H Green Stamps sign from the Mobil station, and installed it in front of the local funeral home!
 
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