Rust preventative

[Dave Young]

I have read alot on here about patch lubes, but what is everyone using down the bore for a rust preventative? I am getting ready to make up some deer tallow/olive oil lube, does this work good to swab the barrel with after cleaning? I would like to find something that works real well that is not petroleum based.

 

[RiverRat]

Get yourself some Ballistol! It is amazing stuff, great as a rust preventive and many other uses like treating leather and wood. Mix it 5:1 with water and you will have a great patch lube and bore cleaner. It has a strange smell but the benifits makes it bearable.

 

[jtmattison]

I use Rem-oil.

In my opinion, there is nothing better than a good gun oil to protect your barrel.

I clean all of the oil out of the bore before shooting so fouling and the petroleum are not an issue.

HD

 

[Hunter66]

I like the Ballistol too. I use it straight in the bore when I am storing my guns and I go about 50/50 for a cleaner.

 

[David G]

Accragard,and here lately I've just been using 30wt motor oil. Either one stays with the metal.

 

[rdoggsilva]

I use Hoppes #9 gun oil, have used it for as far back as I can remember. Just love the smell of it, brings back alot of memories. :grin:

 

[bwhoffman]

I store with wd-40. clean, dry, spray some in, runa patch with it, store it muzzle down. no complaints. I do tend to wipe once a week with a wd 40 patch just because. I wipe the external surfaces with one of my lubed shooting patches which is straight olive oil (metal only)
This works for me. You will probly get 50 different reccomendations here, and they all work for the people that post them. Real is no wrong answer. try some and decide!
I do swab out with alcohol prior to shooting and run a olive oil patch up and down prior to the first loading.
I think my key to success is running a patch down the barrel weekly!

 

[Dave Young]

Does anyone use any animal tallow/fat/oil on a regular basis?

 

[kansas_volunteer]

Animal fat/tallow will always contain some salt. Salt and steel don't go together well.

 

[evan9201]

i just swab the barrel with a patch loaded up with bore butter and swab with a alchol soaked patch prior to shooting.

 

[Flintleather]

Ballistol is great stuff i clean my barrels with room temp soapy water and dry patch them dry followed up with a patch wet with Ballistol.I've never had a problem with rust and Ballistol is non-petroleum based so you wont have a fouling problem with natural based patch lubes.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Birchwood-Casey Sheath

 

[JeffinNZ]

I vote Ballistol also and the added bonus is the 'unique' odour is sure to keep the wimmin folk out of the den! :thumbsup:

 

[Len Graves]

I have used ballistol for a number of years. It is made for use on guns (and about everything else)Seems to prevent rust as well or better than anything I have used. If you like the smell of old sweat sox then this stuff is for you.

 

[Rat Trapper]

A sales rep gave me a bottle of Knight oil, a light weight oil. It works very well, no need to change. I guess any other light weight oil would also work. Just remember to use a patch and alcohol to remove to oil before you load it.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

I buy WS-40 by the gallon, never had a ML or any gun rust, only a few bucks at auto parts store. Works good for stretching skeeter butts over fence posts too. :wink:

 

[gmww]

Here are a couple of links that report the results of their rust prevention tests. Interesting results.
http://www.accuratereloading.com/rustest.html
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/GunTech/NewsletterArchive.aspx?p=0&t=1&i=503

 

[Dave Young]

That was pretty interesting, especialy the last one. It looks like good old WD 40 does the trick!

 

[gmww]

I came to the conclusion the T-9 was the best with WD40 being a close second. Since I've always had WD40 on hand I'll stick with it.

When I had salt water boat, my cleaning process including fresh water rinse on the trailer and all the rollers. I followed it up with a WD40 spray on all the metal parts of the rollers and where metal meets metal. That 15 year old trailer did not show any significant signs of rust. Good stuff that WD40 is. WD stands for Water Displacement for those who didn't know.

 

[jdstrang]

Ballistol. :thumbsup:
http://www.ballistol.com/