Thread: Kimber hunter rust issues

you can see from the picture where the palm of someone's hand print where it was grabbed where the front scope base goes
their "stainless" is better than the howa but not as resistant as the tikka or the old ruger M77

Cheers for the replies, I definitely regret selling my mk2 m77 now
I'll give it a good scrub with some wd40 when I get back home and hope it cleans up.

gently over a few days like dab dab otherwise you will leave marks ( ask me how I know )

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

gently over a few days like dab dab otherwise you will leave marks ( ask me how I know )

crc/wd40? I havent seen it leave a mark yet and I just spray mine then wipe off the excess

Ill bite How do you know?

many years ago I used a piece of steel wool lucky it was a cheap .22 left marks hence my warning be gentle - I use old rough towel and have fixed some real bad rust jobs for friends and have left no marks at all - some are impatient and dont let the product soften and act on the rust first - if I do a rust job for hunters I do it over several days sometimes even a week - I do a number of restorations and rust is the no 1 job generally

Never had an issue before with mine and it's been dragged through mud, rain, supplejack and covered in blood. Wipe it down, dry it off, oil with Eezox. Same thing I do with my blued guns, don't treat them any different.

I wonder I read that some people have sweaty hands that rust guns more than other people - certainly watching pictures of the top makers like Purdy they always handle those $100,000 guns with gloves on - and thats why rust hands it was called - now I wrote it off as bloody stupid poms but just maybe they were onto something just saying

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

I wonder I read that some people have sweaty hands that rust guns more than other people - certainly watching pictures of the top makers like Purdy they always handle those $100,000 guns with gloves on - and thats why rust hands it was called - now I wrote it off as bloody stupid poms but just maybe they were onto something just saying

I have seen a couple of guys pick up nice clean & shiny dummy rounds here, then put them down, the next day they are far from shiny with corrosion/tarnishing appearing inc finger prints clearly visible