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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: 300winmag on September 04, 2016, 03:44:34 PM

Title: barrel rust
Post by: 300winmag on September 04, 2016, 03:44:34 PM: What can a guy use on a shotgun barrel to stop the rust ? Its a Stoegor 3500 and its only a couple years old but it spot rust every time we take duck hunting granted its always salt water but the gun always gets broke down and cleaned but the barrel still wants to have rust spots.
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: Blacktail Sniper on September 04, 2016, 03:47:44 PM: Give this a try before the hunt, wipe it down and coat it with a good car wax. Should seal the exterior surfaces.
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: fish vacuum on September 04, 2016, 05:40:30 PM: This stuff.
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: BigGoonTuna on September 04, 2016, 08:08:59 PM: frog lube is expensive, but works really well on those matte finishes, as it sort of fills in the divots.
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: Fl0und3rz on September 04, 2016, 09:39:14 PM: Quote from: Blacktail Sniper on September 04, 2016, 03:47:44 PM
Give this a try before the hunt, wipe it down and coat it with a good car wax. Should seal the exterior surfaces.

I did that with an 870 youth that had some freckles after cleaning with 0000 steel wool and Rem oil, and it sealed it up nicely.
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: T-Bone on September 09, 2016, 10:03:22 AM: Before moving to E.WA, I hunted the salt marshes for 20+ years:

1. Never put your gun in a soft case to "clean later". If you don't feel like cleaning the gun right after hunting, dry it off; take off the barrel and put it aside to dry and then"clean later".
2. Never store your gun in a soft case; guns need to breathe or you'll get rust. If you don't have a safe; put your guns in a GunSock storage sleeve.

Barricade is an excellent product as is FroggLube; personally I found CorrosionX to be my own favorite. www.shotgunworld.com has an excellent thread on the corrosion fighting abilities of these products and others. You will eliminate close to 90% of your problems by following those first two rules and near 100% if you use the mentioned lubricants on the exposed metal and on a final patch down the bore.
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: Pathfinder101 on September 09, 2016, 10:25:35 AM: Dang... all kinds of good advice here... :tup:
I'm not sure which one to try first.
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: Kit Carson on September 13, 2016, 08:49:09 PM: You guys suggest using the Barricade down the bore and just being done with that cleaning or running a clean dry patch after the patch with Barricade?
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: T-Bone on September 14, 2016, 06:13:21 AM: Quote from: Kit Carson on September 13, 2016, 08:49:09 PM
You guys suggest using the Barricade down the bore and just being done with that cleaning or running a clean dry patch after the patch with Barricade?

No...Solvent patch; dry patch(es)...LOOK and if the bore appears clean; run a final patch with a light coating of Barricade down the bore. Spray some more Barricade on a rag and wipe the exterior metal; keep it off the wood and plastic.
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: Kit Carson on September 14, 2016, 08:32:14 PM: Thank you T-Bone and all others!
Title: Re: barrel rust
Post by: mikeybuck on September 14, 2016, 08:46:49 PM: I used to wipe the whole thing down with a lite coat of grease.