Found a good BP product

[Cuts Crooked]

Howdy Pards,

I recently made a trip to parts south and managed to work in a match while I was there. Odd circumstances dictated that I had to store my shootin' irons some distance from where I was staying in North Little Rock, Arkansas and I would not be able to do my normal routine of cleaning and then cleaning again a couple of days later. I was concerned about this because temps were running in the high 90s and low 100s, with humidity near the 100 percent mark most of the time I was down thataway! I would have to shoot a match, clean my irons once, and leave them for a week, stored in foam lined gun cases! (the reasons fer this are too complicated to explain here). As it happened, I was at a "toy store" some weeks before the trip and happened to notice a product on the shelf that claimed to be a "rust inhibitor and anti-oxidation formula designed for long term storeage of Black Powder firearms". I was cheap enuff, three and a half bucks, so I bought some.

The stuff is called Wonder Gun Cloth from Ox-Yoke Originals. It comes in a smallish plastic container and is simply two pieces of cloth, about 7 x 8 inches, impregnated with some unidentifed substance that feels slightly greasy to the touch. You simply clean your your guns as you normally do and then wipe them down with the cloths before storing them....so I did.

I shot a match on a Saturday in 100 degree temps with the humidity up in the "I'm breathing under water!" range, drove for a couple of hours, cleaned my irons at a pards home, wiped them down with these "gun cloths", put them back in my foam lined lined travel cases (The absolute WORST thing to store guns in for any length of time!), and stored them in my pards basement for a week. After the week was up I picked up my guns and headed home. It was a LONG drive and upon arriving home I was both tired and wanting to spend some time with my family, which I did before dropping into the bunk for an extended session of sawing logs! The following morning I hauled my gun cases out of the wagon and took them down to my shop. With some trepidation I started opening gun cases and examining irons! No Rust! None! Zip! Nada! The stuff works as advertised!! I gave my guns a good second cleaning, and found a little black goo in the bores that cleaned out easily, but surface rust was not present at all!

I'm happy with the product! Nothing is better than a good cleaning, followed by a second cleaning a couple of days later (this regimen was drilled into me when I was a youngster by an old veteran who fought in WWI with corrosive ammo), but in a tight spot this stuff will help until you can get a roundtuit! I would also recommend it to anyone who lives in areas where high humidity is a fact of life! It would be a good product fer you smokeless shooters too, fer long term storeage!

[Wes Virginian]

Cuts,
    Thanks for the info. I left a AWA Lightening in a foam lined plastic case for about a month. It didn't look to good with rust starting to build on it. I'll get me some of that even though I got rid of the plastic case.

Wes Virginian

[Noah Mercy]

Good to hear about a product that works as advertised. If I can find them locally, I'll have to pick up a package. I've been pleased with all of the Ox-Yoke products I've tried in the past.

I'm originally from the Gulf Coast of Florida, so I know all about humidity! A "field expedient" I came across years ago to keep my irons from turning fuzzy orange before I got around to cleaning was to keep them in gun socks liberally dosed with silicone spray. They sell 'em already treated, but every couple of weeks I would hang them up in my garage and hose them down with spray silicone and let them dry overnight. The guns stored in these socks stayed rust-free for longer than I care to admit. If you do keep your pistolas in a foam-lined container, liberally spritzing the foam with the same stuff makes a BIG difference.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I tried to find Ox Yoke Originals, and found out it apparently went bankrupt in August 2005.  That is just about the time this topic was posted!

On GOOGLE I learned that some employees calling themselves EASTERN MAINE SHOOTING SUPPLIES were going to try and fill the void.  I was interested as I really like their "conditioned" shotgun wads. 

Try as I might, I couldn't find them.  Anybody have any info?

[Lars]

Have been doing what Noah Mercy posted for decades with no rust, including Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard regions of USA. I also keep all my guns coated with carnauba wax and renew that coating after every few hunts/day shoots. In addition, after BP use I rinse the bores and cylinders with Windex and then additionally dry them well -- the dryer in Windex is the primary reason for using it.

Lars

[Dick Dastardly]

I've gotten my hands on some rust preventive lubericant samples that I am testing.  The stuff was developed by Boeing Aircraft to prevent corrosion in hard to reach places where mechanical stuff had to work and not corrode in airplanes.  So far, it's doing what it was intended to do.  If it proves out, I'm going to include it in my product line.

DD-DLoS

[pony express]

I don't know if I should asmit to this here, but I know from past experience that if you spray them REAL good with ballistol, you can just wipe them off, run a patch through them and shoot next month's match. Don't ask me how I know this.