the most rusty gun iv ever restored

[Chuckindenver]

Attachment 41494Attachment 41495Attachment 41496Attachment 41497back in Nov, i ended up with this very early Remington 721, one of the first 200 made.
i was stored next to a water heater for many years..
i thought for a while it was hopeless.
i had to replace the barrel, and the trigger assembly, both were not safe and not saveable.

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[browningautorifle]

Around here, those come off fishing boats. I had a BAR 22 that was every bit as bad. After some draw filing and paper work, it looked new.

[Peter Laidler]

I saw a few l;ike that. One was a Sterling SMG found in the bowels of an ex Royal Navy fast patrol boat. But after an overnight bath in oil, stripping and cleaning and a new barrel, it worked perfectly. Even after a good beadblasting it still looked crap so it was scrapped.

The second was a .303" Bren recovered, hidden in a drug smuggling boat/ship that was siezed by the Police/Customs here. A TOTAL heap of rusted sh--e that could have remained good and serviceable if they'd just taken it out of its hide once a month and sprayed it with oil. To be honest, it was a good job that they didn't use it for two reasons. The first was that it probably wouldn't have worked and secondly, the Customs had a Navy Frigate as back-up about a mile away. And on the school playground basis that 'my gang is bigger than your gang', discression was the better part of valour!