Thread: Cleaning a free floated rifle

Once a year ( or before a big trip planed to wet places like Stewart island or fiord land, and after), take rifle out of its stock, make sure everything is dry and apply very light coat of gun oil or grease on the underneath surfaces.
Put back the rifle together , recheck your zero and that is all. If you have been bush bashing, just use a handkerchief or something similar to dislodge the forest bits.
Quite often, on a lot of the old rifles I m taking appart, the underside of the barrel where the forehand is , has a blueing in Better condition than the rifle. ( except we’re wood and metal would have been in tight contact allowing water to stagnate and form rust on the metal).