Grab a rag, put some oil on it. Wipe all of your guns. Leave the oil on the guns until you have watched a YouTube video about cleaning guns. Then watch a video about each of your guns. Then watch a video about removing rust from a gun. After all the videos, go clean your guns.

 

Sigh.

Gun oil is often thin.
in a pinch clean motor oil is better than nothing on exterior metal.
Yes there are high tech finishes. For sports / dudes that don't oil metal exposed to moisture.
Don't buy from them.

You can use oil and the finest steel wool on your rust. Oiled steel wool finest grade.
Everything you touch with rusted material can be expected to rust. Meaning don't transfer rust. Throw away your used piece after removing rust.

 

I like hoppes #9 gun grease especially for off season storage.

 

I wipe mine down with oily rag after each hunt . if i shoot i run rag down the barrel!

 

Lots more besides the exteriors.
Study then apply.

 

So yeah, trapping isn't the sport for you. lol

If the first barrel you show is parkerized. Get a green 3M scrub pad, and some WD-40 or similar. Scrub all of the rust away, and keep it oiled from here on out. You hunt a lot of waterfowl it seems. Maybe some sheaths would be a good investment.

Live and learn. We all do.

 

Join the Army! They'll make you an expert in no time...

 

I'm a little old for that, lol. One of the very few actual regrets in my life is that I didn't join after college (would've ideally been flying for the Navy or Air Force).

 

I have now developed surface rust on the barrels of my most used guns because I hunt in all weather.

Pretty much every singled blued barrel deer hunting and turkey gun I own has had surface rust at some point

The short term solution is adequate lathering of oil after each hunt. To do it properly you really need to remove the stock

The long term solution is to get Stainless guns. My shotgun is cerakoted and so far so good

 

The long term solution is to get Stainless guns.

Neglected stainless rifles will rust as well. There is no substitute for proper maintenance stainless or otherwise, though stainless can take a little more neglect than blued.

 

I know very little.

I do know our buddy Pinefarm was a fan of using Ballistol in between cleanings before putting his firearms in the safe.

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@Macs13 read this. I use Hoppes myself and a little CLP if needed.

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@Macs13 read this. I use Hoppes myself and a little CLP if needed.
















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Thank you. Hoppes is what I picked up at Cabelas a couple of days ago. Looks like quality stuff.

 

Use the same rag to oil all your guns. Keep it in a zip lock and just wipe your guns down with it after every use.

 

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Nothing IMO works better at preventing rust on bluing better than full synthetic motor oil. It works great and is a fraction of the cost of "gun oil".

 

My barrels are not blued unless they came that way from the factory. The two pictured are Savage model 64 - pretty base level gun so I doubt it - and the Ruger American.

 

Most times, rust develops from not letting your gun breath and dry out...
A guns worst enemy , other than our politicians, is the cases we keep them in when hunting away from home.
Drop a cold or wet gun in a case and leave it , sometimes even just overnite, can
Be all it takes.
Get your guns OUT of their cases immediately when you return.
Let it get to room temp first. Then use a absorbent cloth to mop up all the water first. Then apply oil from an oily cloth to all metal areas. Takes just a couple minutes.
DO NOT use an oily rag when the gun is wet. Oil and water do not mix and you will force water into areas it may not have been to begin with. Dry first then lube.
The inside of the barrel can be cleaned quickly with a bore snake. Just 1 or 2 times and your good.
This will get them clean enough until you can do a thorough cleaning.best of luck.

 

Most times, rust develops from not letting your gun breath and dry out...
A guns worst enemy , other than our politicians, is the cases we keep them in when hunting away from home.
Drop a cold or wet gun in a case and leave it , sometimes even just overnite, can
Be all it takes.
Get your guns OUT of their cases immediately when you return.
Let it get to room temp first. Then use a absorbent cloth to mop up all the water first. Then apply oil from an oily cloth to all metal areas. Takes just a couple minutes.
DO NOT use an oily rag when the gun is wet. Oil and water do not mix and you will force water into areas it may not have been to begin with. Dry first then lube.
The inside of the barrel can be cleaned quickly with a bore snake. Just 1 or 2 times and your good.
This will get them clean enough until you can do a thorough cleaning.best of luck.

Agreed! Most of the rust damage I’ve seen on folks rifles and shotguns was from humidity in a case or storage where wet. My one personal experience was my 788. I always leave it in my truck the whole deer season, and dried it off before casing it after a day that started with wet snow and rain. The next day that thing had frozen up with ice extruding from the barrel channel, and I couldn’t even operate it until it lay in the sun. That was before chemical hand warmers and such so it took awhile. I got rust on the underside of the barrel and cold blued it when I refinished the stock.

I’ve hunted in plenty of rain with blued guns and no damage once you learn how to take care of ‘em. Many days with a gun propped muzzle down or hanging the same after a wet hunt, bolt out or action open after a wet hunt. Always better to be safe than sorry.

 

I have a Browning BPS and that thing even if I towel it off before putting in the case will be orange by the time I get home a couple hours later. Kinda a shame for a waterfowl gun. My Mossberg and in particular my Beretta are way less likely to rust.

I’ve used oil and the bronze bore brush to remove surface rust.

One of these days I’ll hit the BPS with brake cleaner and rattle can it tan…

 

Dri Slide used to take out heavy pitting.

 

Check out bore snakes. That is what I use to clean all my long guns. You do have to buy specifics for the caliber necessary but I love the bore snakes. I use Hopps
9 on the inside of the barrel and Remington oil on the exterior. After every use, my deer guns get wiped down. Anytime they’ve been fired I run the bore snakes through them once without oil and twice with. My waterfowl guns after a gnarly hunt or inclement weather hunt the entire gun gets broken down, removing the trigger mechanism too. It is helpful to learn your guns inside and out. Rusty guns drive me absolutely crazy.

 

To start, don't put your guns away wet

 

Take weapon completely apart, put solvent on a small fine rag and wipe them (bolt,trigger assembly,action,gas chamber,etc)down, put gun oil on another fine rage and wipe, run solvent soaked patches through barrel until they come out clean, run a oil soaked patch through barrel after, put weapon back together and wipe it down again with oil rag, watch out for fingerprints, put weapon away....... wipe down with an oil rag after every outting before putting weapon away.

 

Google STRIKEHOLD GUN CLEANING, watch the videos. Stuff is unbelievable, and hard to find. I believe the guy who developed it is ex milirary and from Mich.

 

This is an embarrassing post for me. In my eyes, a man should take good care of his equipment. I have been utterly lacking when it comes to my long guns. I do not really know what I should be doing with my guns, how frequently, etc. I have now developed surface rust on the barrels of my most used guns because I hunt in all weather. I know that guns need "oiled" but I don't really know what that means in detail.

So, Firstly, how do I remove the surface rust? I wouldn't use anything abrasive like a steel wool because that will screw up the barrel, I would think.

What should I be doing regularly and how often?

What should be doing after a season ends and the gun is heading to the safe for awhile?

What I've currently got is a cleaning kit with the 3 piece bore rod and patches, bore cleaner and gun oil, and spray on gun cleaner/lube.

This is one of those discussions where I'm not going to get offended if you talk down to me, lol. I have no knowledge in this field.
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Always open your gun case.Even if a gun didn't get wet and you put it away. It will sweat moisture.The case with build moisture over time as well and needs to air out.

For soft gun case always use one with a full length zipper so it can be opened to dry.
Never use the ones that you feed/slide a gun in muzzle first.

 

Hoppes #9 is the only thing I ever use. It's old school but it works.

 

WD40 works better than doing nothing and letting it rust to hell!

 

Ask any gunsmith - what is the #1 cause of sticky actions??

Answer- WD40

WD40 is a Water Displacement fluid. It is made to spray on damp metal THEN CLEANED OFF. It is NOT a lubricant or a protectant.

 

The barrel gets wiped with an oil wipe after hunting on a rainy day or at the end of gun season. There are several brands to choose from for this.

For the plastic stock, I simply wipe it down with a dry cloth.

For the wood stock (I only have one rifle with a wood stock), I use the same product I apply to my guitars. I do this every few years—or whenever I remember!

Cleaning the inside of the barrel is a different story. I clean my rifle barrels every 50 shots and my handgun barrels every 200–300 shots.

 

And don’t use Remington “dry lube” !!! Ever !!!

 

And don't use Hornady dry case lube for reloading. Terrible

Don't worry honey, I'm using dry lube

 

Browned barrels for the win?

 

Had one I still oiled. Blackpowder so it was exposed to corrosive residue.
Another was in the white when I assembled it from a kit.
It wanted oiled as I let it discolor over time.
No not an oven browning process.

Gunbuilder I knew used a sweatbox with light bulb and can of %$$@ .

Like bluing it's still a controlled rust of sorts.
We could let a barrel flash rust and if we keep it oiled it will stay pretty much as seen.