Thread: Rifles that don't age well

Originally Posted by ghosts

Living and hunting a lot on Rakiura Stewart Is brings out the worst in rifle corrosion problems. The marine atmosphere gets em all. My Sako 75 ss rifle has with stood most of it but having Camo tape wrapped around the barrel for a few years then taking it off Ive got a neat spiral line of slight pitting going round the barrel from salt water ingress over time. Not as bad as my old Winchester mod 88 lever action, man that rusted bad in the air down there. Despite the best cleaning regime . Had an sks for awhile and that rusted bad also. My 2 Brnos in .22 and .22 mag have copped a bet better, but they didn't do much boat work. I guess its how much we use are firearms and what sort of conditions we use them in.

Yip my 85 Bavarian didn’t much appreciate 10 days at south Pegasus was piling at night and in the morning before I left just about a lot of on and off the boat and watching beaches