And protecting your rifle's finish from rain, sweaty hands can be difficult when hunting or when camping too. Stainless steel grades on firearms are not stainless, only less stainless and different makers use different grades and suppliers. If I compare the SS on a Howa for example, to the grade used in Rugers, it's like chalk and cheese - the Howa will stain and even pit overnight from sweaty hands whereas the Rugers will not even after weeks. But still will.
Your beautiful walnut stocks too are not completely waterproof with a real oil finish in the rain, or from soaking in overuse of gun oils.
Anyway, I've been trying these wax finishes for awhile now, and they work incredibly well. Rub them into an oil-free firearm with an open-weave cloth and allow to air dry. It will make a dull matt finish and keep the oxygen and salts from the steel.
It also dulls shiny stainless, for those who think SS scares game.
Don't worry, you can polish it off later.
For timber stocks, I found it best to also remove the stock and coat the internal areas with a good coat and reassemble as normal. Don't worry about getting it into bedding areas, it does not affect the bedding system or change the characteristics. It will stop water from entering the wood for a long time.
On blued steel, it lasts for days in the field.
When stalking and working in the rain, fog etc, as I do routinely, you will see the water just run off in beads.
A cheap kiddies balloon, by the way, will stop water entering the barrel and unlike tape, will stay on if applied in the wet. Worth having a bag of these things in your bumbag. And the sprays that are marketed for motorcycle visors and windscreens that make water run straight off are awesome for your scope glass. The water will never obscure your view.
With blued steel, you will be amazed at how long this wax will also keep the steel from oxidising.
And rubbed into walnut, you will not believe the way this stuff brings out the grain too.
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The stuff on the left was from a local hardware, and the right was from ebay but both are Aussie made.
