I'm tending to agree with you all but is 0000 steel wool and Hoppes going to get all the rust off this gun?
I think you'll be surprised how much 0000 and Hoppes will clean this up. It's kind of hard to tell but the rust looks pretty fine grained. I hope some will chime in on this because I have not yet tried it, but I have heard that you can put rusty gun parts in boiling water first and the red rust will convert to black oxide as is done in rust bluing. Then when you card with steel wool, the metal is left a bit darker than when just removing red rust. Sounds logical, but hopefully someone has first hand experience.
