November 19, 2020, 10:55 AM | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: November 18, 2010
Location: Luthersburg, PA
Posts: 311
|
Oil or wax?
When dealing with older long guns what is the best treatment for the surface of a rifle or shotgun? I am not talking about moving parts but the outside of the barrel, receiver or other non moving parts. I read somewhere that a good quality wax or polymer will preserve the metal better. What has anyone else found?
__________________
I am reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down! Getting older sucks, when you get a bladder infection, urine trouble! |
November 19, 2020, 12:35 PM | #2 |
Member
Join Date: August 5, 2013
Posts: 81
|
I use both for long term storage.
Renaissance wax apply and buff. Then a thin coating of RIG grease. |
November 19, 2020, 01:48 PM | #3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 13, 2002
Location: Canada
Posts: 12,453
|
Grease for long term storage with no regular maintenance. Oil will run off with gravity pulling on it. WD-40 if you can regularly reapply. Wax is a lot of work to put on.
__________________
Spelling and grammar count! |
November 19, 2020, 01:48 PM | #4 |
Member
Join Date: August 6, 2018
Location: Oregon
Posts: 24
|
Gun specific wax is by far the best for long term storage. I waxed up a stock and action of a browning blr and took it hunting in very rainy weather. I couldnt find any rust o it when i was done.
|
November 24, 2020, 09:24 AM | #5 |
Member
Join Date: May 14, 2020
Posts: 25
|
I tried out plain ol' Johnson's paste wax back in the late sixties because I got tired of finding rusty spots on my guns using oil. I have had no rust issues since.
|
November 24, 2020, 09:36 AM | #6 |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 6, 2014
Posts: 6,432
|
Both Johnson's and Renaissance are excellent in this regard.
__________________
"I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a 'temporary license to exist'—in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government—it doesn't own you."- Frank Zappa |
November 24, 2020, 10:29 AM | #7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 29, 2010
Location: The ATL (OTP)
Posts: 3,944
|
Renaissance on the wood and RIG on the metal seems to work well. I try to wipe off and reapply periodically.
__________________
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|