pomemax wrote:Pythonkeeper wrote:After recently having to send back a 7 month old Lithgow LA102 (243) with a severely corroded chamber and bore I leave nothing to chance. I now store my rifles with an oiled/greased woolly mop up in the chamber from a larger caliber, eg 45 mop for 243 and 308 etc, I also fix an oily rag over the muzzles with a rubber band after a good spray of lube down the bore.
I go shooting at least once a month (usually more often) and all my rifles get a quick wipe over with an oily rag and a squirt down the bore while I've got my cleaning gear out to clean the guns I've had out to use.
My cleaning and lubing practices are more thorough than anyone I know and I still had the corrosion problem, personally I believe the rifle in question must have been faulty to deteriorate so quickly (7 months old, 100 rounds give or take) but that's another story.
The answer your looking for is in your statement above " and a squirt down the bore" a real good squirt from an Aerosol can I bet .
After working in an Aerosol filling factory for 5-6 years and watching STAINLESS steel Rust out in 6 months (Mild Steel forget it lasted 2 weeks ) and not from the product but from the gas in the filling rooms .If I am using a spray can on fire arms its on a rag or mop and then let sit for 5 minutes before it goes near steel/wood of any kind. look on the web for a recipe for EDDS RED use that instead of spray cans
As for cleaning when not in use 1 Sunday every 2 months Strip and clean 6 to 8 ( normally start at 11 flagon dragon brings me out lunch at 1 and pack up round 5.30 ish ) next 2 months another 6-8 and so on till all been done and so on , any I use at the range normally 5 a week bore snake and oily rag before they are returned to safe and properly cleaned in the rotation .
Look on most manufactures web pages most often they will tell you the biggest cause of problems is is poor cleaning and lubrication followed by to much cleaning and way to much lube
accross the bottom of the safe i have 8 off .half kg bags of he silicon dryer that come in machines from overseas of that helps a lot
Maybe I should have explained myself better, a squirt down the barrel was more a figure of speech than something to be taken literally, you would be right though that some (1 of) of the products I use come from an aerosol can however I don't spray these products directly on or into the rifle. When applying to the bore and chamber I use a wet patch, lube soaked mop or bore snake and run it through a few passes to get even coverage. Same applies to the externals, spray or squirt onto the rag and wipe over.......I use g96 (aerosol), frog lube liquid clp (squeezy bottle), Hoppe's no 9 bore cleaner (screw top bottle), innox (squeeze bottle with needle applicator).....I pretty much only use the g96 as a general clp with a bore snake out when out on a hunting trip as its more convenient than the other products I use.
Now although I personally don't spray aerosol products directly on or into my firearm I'm pretty sure it wouldn't make a difference as allot of people do, including people way more knowledgeable on the subject than you or I, and if there was a problem with it we'd see allot more posts like my post above and it would have been declared a no no long ago. Heck, some aerosol products such as foaming bore cleaners etc are designed to be sprayed directly down the barrel, they can be used any other way and one would think they contain the same gases as other aerosol cleaning and lubrication products.
Also the rifle I was referring to above, (IMO) even if it was abused should not have gone the way it did in such a short time frame, it is apparently made of military grade steel (or something to that effect), the same gear they use to manufacture firearms for our armed forces....
As for my safe, I'm a reptile keeper/breeder and have been for many years so I know a thing or two about humidity and how to manipulate it to the level I need it as it is an important part of reptile husbandry, my safe has very low humidity end of story...