NEF/H&R rust

[Bamaboy19]

I have a few, is it just me? I'll store mine covered in oil, in a gun sock, inside a vapor barrier bag. Seems like every time I get one out of the safe I have to scrub it with 0000 steel wool and even scrape them with pennies. I've ruined the color case hardening on my muzzle loader. I'm about ready to cerekote all of them.

 

[DixieReb]

I’ve got 5 of them , no problems whatsoever. I wipe them with Rem oil and they are all good

 

[Raven]

I have a few, is it just me? I'll store mine covered in oil, in a gun sock, inside a vapor barrier bag. Seems like every time I get one out of the safe I have to scrub it with 0000 steel wool and even scrape them with pennies. I've ruined the color case hardening on my muzzle loader. I'm about ready to cerekote all of them.

Don't clean anything with the same cleaning kit you use for black powder or old corrosive ammunition. You probably wiped them all down with same rag or something.

I've had a few NEF and never had a problem with rust.

Might be worth paying a gunsmith to dip them all in a solvent bath and wash with pressurized solvent, and then put them through a sonic cleaner, and then immediately soak in a CLP overnight. This will let the metal become a reservoir of oil. Can't do that with Remoil. Remoil has Teflon and it clogs the metal pores and prevents the metal from becoming a reservoir of oil

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

I use the rem oil. It "dries" and leaves a film on the parts. So far so good.

 

[BluesBrother]

I have a few, is it just me? I'll store mine covered in oil, in a gun sock, inside a vapor barrier bag. Seems like every time I get one out of the safe I have to scrub it with 0000 steel wool and even scrape them with pennies. I've ruined the color case hardening on my muzzle loader. I'm about ready to cerekote all of them.

Is it possible that the addition of a "vapor barrier bag" is trapping moisture inside the gun sock? If there is moister it has no place to go. The socks to my understanding are silicone treated but need to breath a little.

 

[Bamaboy19]

Is it possible that the addition of a "vapor barrier bag" is trapping moisture inside the gun sock? If there is moister it has no place to go. The socks to my understanding are silicone treated but need to breath a little.

I've been using these, but not too impressed with their claim

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They're magic! IDK, maybe ditch the silicone socks, at least I'd be able to check them without having to open it all up?

 

[Raven]

They're magic!

Sounds a little bit fishy