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Bought a 12ga Lightning with salt wood. Wondering if I should attempt repair. I would do the wood and have the metal done. Anyone done this? Advice appreciated.
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If it's a salt wood gun, then i think you should should get after it. Just curious; is it a graded gun?
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Assuming no damage has already occurred, does glassing the wood surfaces that touch metal solve the salt wood issue? TT
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I bought 4 stocks blanks of very fancy American walnut. I have used three of them and two turned out to be salt cured. One of them was terrible and rather than ruin my 20 Fox i removed it and restocked the gun.I could not even remove the trigger guard tang screw,had to grind head off to remove guard. The other stock was a Fox i built for my son.It was not rusting as bad and i glass bedded the action and that helped. Them i put a coat of Rig on the tangs and action and that has seemed to correct it. Still loosen screws occasionally! Bobby
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Glassing the wood surfaces does not help in the bad cases. There are slight and very bad salt wood.
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