Thread: Drowned Rifle

Originally Posted by Fat belly Dog

Had a couple of stumbles in the river with full emersion of rifle (old sako forrestor carbon barrel, action) and suppressor,

I have cleaned it and oiled it the best I could tonight on returning home, still need to remove barrel and action from stock but screws are seized which I will work on tomorrow. Is there anything I should be doing extra? drop it off to gunsmith to get trigger and bolt/firing pin cleaned up?

Spray it all with CRC or Inox?

Do I need to do anything to suppressor or ammo?

Cheers FBD

Should be fine just give everything (except the stock) a good bath in CRC 556 or similar and then wipe down. Make sure you get it in all the gaps/cracks to displace water.