Thread: Rifles that don't age well

I don’t no what the deal is with the stainless thing it’s like it’s batch to batch, iv had a brand new tikka with spot rust out of the box nothing major what so ever more stains once cleaned up no erosion as such. A friend of mine had a sako 75 .270 that got spot rust looking at it to hard and a tikka 22-250 that did the same where as my tikka .308 at the time and my sako 85 7rm never got a spot and I don’t no that a rag ever touched the outside of the barrel on either of those rifles . 85 finnlights and carbonlights are both prone to the sort touch wearing like the browning I think a lot of it is probably cleaning products because again my finnlight didn’t get sticky nor peel over years of use .

Blood is terrible for marking stainless and I’m very conscious of getting it off asap now.

Originally Posted by Kelton

I don’t no what the deal is with the stainless thing it’s like it’s batch to batch, iv had a brand new tikka with spot rust out of the box nothing major what so ever more stains once cleaned up no erosion as such. A friend of mine had a sako 75 .270 that got spot rust looking at it to hard and a tikka 22-250 that did the same where as my tikka .308 at the time and my sako 85 7rm never got a spot and I don’t no that a rag ever touched the outside of the barrel on either of those rifles . 85 finnlights and carbonlights are both prone to the sort touch wearing like the browning I think a lot of it is probably cleaning products because again my finnlight didn’t get sticky nor peel over years of use .

Blood is terrible for marking stainless and I’m very conscious of getting it off asap now.

May I suggest not using the barrel as a spear then

Originally Posted by Gibo

May I suggest not using the barrel as a spear then

Able lake Tahr Ballot block 3rd period 2016 arrived to the car part waiting for chopper checking the important bits rifle bolt bullets knife the bolt was broken Now I’m not saying we speared a bull Tahr with a bolt less rifle or their would be a 6 page story about it luckily their were other rifles to be shared but that would have being about the only use for that rifle on that trip