Ok I need some advice here ASAP, cause frankly I'm kind of freaking out a little here.
I recently returned to my parents place for the holidays for a few days. I have some firearms with them including my Mosin Nagant, M48, and my 1894 Winchester. I have kept them here for a little over a year while we've been renovating our house.
I took them all out just to oil 'em up a bit and keep them maintained when I noticed that my 91/30s barrel had gone from nice and shiny to sewer pipe in a year! This was concerning enough but my M48 had also suffered somehow except oddly in the case of the M48 only the last 6 or so inches of the barrel had turned to sewer pipe, everything further back is still shiny like new according to my bore camera. The Winchester was fine.
This is perplexing for several reasons. Firstly I don't use corrosive ammo, EVER. In fact my friends give me crap for always paying extra to ensure I don't accidentally get some. Second, I know as cold fact that when these rifles were put into storage (a cool dry closet wrapped in cloth gun cases in this instance) they all had nice shiny bores. Since I've owned it the M48 has never been shot!? Third, why is the Winchester seemingly unaffected and the M48 only half so?
How can I avoid this in the future? I'm not sure what I would have done differently, all my firearms and cleaned and oiled/greased before being put into storage of any kind. This actually scares me a little because I have some milsurps that are worth a lot more than a $120 Mosin or even $200 M48.
I recently returned to my parents place for the holidays for a few days. I have some firearms with them including my Mosin Nagant, M48, and my 1894 Winchester. I have kept them here for a little over a year while we've been renovating our house.
I took them all out just to oil 'em up a bit and keep them maintained when I noticed that my 91/30s barrel had gone from nice and shiny to sewer pipe in a year! This was concerning enough but my M48 had also suffered somehow except oddly in the case of the M48 only the last 6 or so inches of the barrel had turned to sewer pipe, everything further back is still shiny like new according to my bore camera. The Winchester was fine.
This is perplexing for several reasons. Firstly I don't use corrosive ammo, EVER. In fact my friends give me crap for always paying extra to ensure I don't accidentally get some. Second, I know as cold fact that when these rifles were put into storage (a cool dry closet wrapped in cloth gun cases in this instance) they all had nice shiny bores. Since I've owned it the M48 has never been shot!? Third, why is the Winchester seemingly unaffected and the M48 only half so?
How can I avoid this in the future? I'm not sure what I would have done differently, all my firearms and cleaned and oiled/greased before being put into storage of any kind. This actually scares me a little because I have some milsurps that are worth a lot more than a $120 Mosin or even $200 M48.