Rust proofing your shotgun!

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Is there a treatment that is not camo?

A lot guys have sent their shotguns to be dipped with camo! Now I am looking for a similar low maitenance treatment for my shotgun. Remember when you waterfowl hunt your gun will get wet!! (My dog loves to get everything wet!! Heheheh!!)

Can you guys recommend a service or a product.

I clean all of my guns after every use and the blueing on one is kinda light in most places and I don't feel like fighting rust all of the time.

It would be nice just to send the barrel of my SBE to get done /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif!

HELP!!!!!!!

Thanks in advance
 
I started using Moly Resin last year. You spray it on with an air brush then bake for an hour at 300 degrees. I have the OD green and matte black colors right now. I'd like to get the gloss black and grey down the road. I have a media blast cabinet to prep the materials in and an old commercial SS oven that I cure it with. They say you can shoot it right over bluing though.

http://www.johnnorrellarms.com/molyresin_about.asp


I refinished my "first" shotgun and an AR last year. I might bring the little AR to the Wyo PD shoot next month and you can check it out.
 
I've had a couple of my waterfowl hunting guns coated with a product called KG Gun Kote. This stuff is pretty tough, and I've had it on a couple of guns for over 5 yr.s of hard hunting and they're still holding up pretty well.

It's a spray-on/bake product and it used to be sold as a product called Kal Gard for black motorcycle parts, like side cases on MX bikes etc. that got rubbed off etc.

You can even apply it yourself, if you have access to a few basic items.

It looks to me like they'll DO the application for a reasonable price. They've got a whole list of gun related products on their website, so maybe the owners found a new market or changed hobbies? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Here's there site http://www.kgcoatings.com/gunkote.html
 
I believe the current state of the art is to apply moly coating over a blasted (sand, not bead) parkerized finish.

I've read the test reports done by the .gov and others and can't remember the specifics. Seems this treatment is good for many days in salt water.

I've done a few this way and they seem awful tough and rust resistant. It really matters how the prep work is done for the moly coating.
 
I hunt ducks on saltwater alot and I've been looking for a good rust preventing product. Some guys paint their guns but it starts to peal and looks cheesy. About two years ago someone suggested Johnsons Paste Wax, just put a heavy coat on and don't buff it out. It worked great, first time out the gun looked so good (I'm used to a thin rust coat by the end of the day) I just set the gun in the corner of the cabin till the next time out. There wasn't a speck of rust on the outside but the follower in the magezine was rusted in solid and the chamber was was rusted to the point it wouldn't eject a fired shell, you ever been on a one shot duck hunt? Good thing I live next to the bay. A little work with a brake cylinder hone and she's been as good as new, now I just clean every time.

AWS
 
There are companies that do a Teflon coating that is very durable, pretty much guarantees no rust, lasts forever, is available in different colors, although black is the most popular, and not that much more expensive than a dip. Maybe twice the cost of a dip but worth many times more.

Jack
 


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