I have several older rifles I don't shoot a whole lot and wanted to "put them away" to the back of the safe for, say a year. I assume a few of you guys may have this problem too.

So how do you store them? Coat the metal with oil or grease?

An old timer tells me to use synthetic motor oil, or if storing longer than 6 months, a linotype (?) grease will work also. Says it will keep rust off the metal and cleans up way easier than cosmoline. I'm not interested in cosmoline.

Any tips?