Surface rust on rifle

[Artos]

A lite rubbing with 0000 steel wool will not remove any blueing & works just fine...light amounts of rust will come off immediately. Doesn't matter what you use including your bare hands, if you handle a gun long enough, blue wear is gonna happen. That is why you see it missing on the high points on used guns that see range & field use.

Rustpruff is really good stuff & very handy...it is my go to.

Like stated, once pitting has happened it becomes more difficult to control but is manageable.

[Brazos Hunter]

If you can't figure it out, sell it to me for $1 and I will reblue it then sell it back to you for $101-$201 depending on current condition.

[Avezorak]

Agree completely on Rustepruf being great for applications such as yours. Also agree that Froglube is garbage.


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[Bigfootwolff]

I have found that if I get most of the thin surface rust off, but not all, and put a good rust preventative on it like Corrosion X(whcich I love as a preventative), I will find that after a few months of storage the thin rust layer comes back. I can only assume that because I never fully eradicated the rust to begin with, it returns, even though a protective layer of oil exists. Once I use 0000 steel wool and Kroil oil, or the .45 Frontier and Kroil I can usually knock out all the rust, and then coat the metal with Corrosion X, the rust does not return. The trick seems to be fully eradicating all of the thin surface rust. Good luck!

[brianlg31]

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[Tykam]

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[Take em]

Bore butter will help. I wipe down all mine with them and don't have an issue


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[username]

krylon. savages shoot great, but mine does the same despite being wiped down after every use and stored in a safe in a climate controlled room next to X rifles in the same condition that don't show the surface rust.

[Tower43]

When a rifle like savage is cheap, they have to cut costs somewhere. It seems the bluing is not as good. Several companies on the Internet will hot tank blue, or parkerize your gun parts. Choose a matte textured bluing like on military rifles. The rough bluing is designed to hold onto more oil than the high polish shiny bluing