Protecting Safe Queens

[vp146b4]

I have a few 03/03A3s and M1 rifles that I haven't shot and don't plan to. What do you use to protect the bores and nonparked metal surfaces? How often do you remove them from your safe and freshen them up? If you keep them in cases or the DCM boxes, do you clean them more or less often? Does anybody do anything to the stocks? I want to keep them in as good a condition as what they were when I obtained them.
Thanks

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[Jim Tarleton]

RLO the stocks occassionally and RIG the metal.

Jim

[John Beard]

RLO the stocks occassionally and RIG the metal.

Jim

Raw linseed oil is photo-chemically reactive. RLO-treated stocks will eventually turn black if exposed to light.

I concur with using RIG on metal.

J.B.

[Chuckindenver]

i oil them up, drip some Remington oil down the bore, and slide in a cured gunsock,
Brownells, Bass Pro, ect, sell them for about 7.00 each. they are cured with an oil. that works well.
i only use them for safe storage, and not for transport ect.
scoped rifles should have lens covers as well.
an old bike tube cut into strips works well.

[limazulu]

Museums often use a high quality wax.

I've used Hoppes No. 9 gun grease.

I saw a S&W 52 looked like new until I took it out of the original box. The other side was horribly pitted. Contact points between a firearm and container collect moisture. Moisture bad.

[Lancebear]

Hey Jim,

What is RIG? I like Break Free Collector for metal.

Robert

[CapnJohn]

Go here for photos and a rundown of the results of different products

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/Gun...?p=0&t=1&i=503

RIG Grease NO longer going to be available. This off another forum.

” The manufacture is evidently dropping this product from their line up. The company was bought out and operations transfered overseas from what I can deduce. Midway is out and will not accept any more orders, Brownell’s for the time being is accepting orders for back order. The lady I spoke with said they should be getting around 440 units in by late September and then they show no more. Two other distributors told me they cannot get any more deliveries as well. “

[oney]

1) A dehumidifier rod ect in the safe.

2) Breakfree collector's preservative on the metal and the bore.

3) Lemon oil on the wood.

4) I completely clean any rifle three days in a row before storage, and if long term storage is a reality, I try to inspect them at least every six months, with a cleaning session annually... usually in the winter months.

Before I switched to BF Collector's oil, I had really good luck with LSA medium weight. Just a pain in the backside when it came to cleaning up for use.

[John Beard]

Hey Jim,

What is RIG? I like Break Free Collector for metal.

Robert

"RIG" is an acronym that stands for "Rust-Inhibiting Grease." And as CapnJohn pointed out, it's available from Brownell's.

The problem with most protectorants is that they are volatile. Most oils, for example, slowly evaporate and leave metal unprotected. With no protection to seal out oxygen and moisture in the atmosphere, blued rifles will slowly turn brown.

I have not observed any volatility with RIG. Once applied, it stays there.

Good Luck!

J.B.

p.s.,

Be sure and wear chemically-protecting gloves when applying RIG. RIG leaves an annoying waxy feel on hands that does not readily wash off.

[Lancebear]

Thanks J.B.,

RIG is certainly some serious stuff, a little too much for my use. My small collection doesn't know anything about long term storage. Two months for any given piece here would be the longest term storage. I'll stick with BF, has been working well for ten years. You can also shoot with a light coating in the bore without wiping it out. Read that somewhere....

Rig sounds like a combination of cosmo and toilet ring wax, boy is that stuff a mess to get off your hands. Had that experience Saturday.

Death to bad guys,

Robert/LB