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Hello gentlemen.
I have a La Sorda double that will do the same thing.
Paul could you please tell us about the QMAXX products for the problem as I do not have access to The Skeet Shooting Review.
O.M.

I use the wooly snap caps in all my shotguns. Keep the wooly part treated with either Rem Oil or EezOx. I had one 12 gauge that on a humid summer day the interior of the barrels would rust while I had lunch if I shot it in the morning. I kept a Tico Tool in the car and ran it and the oily mop through the barrel after every time I shot it. Still cleaned the barrels fully after I got home.
Regards,
Jeff

Same thing with my Belgian Browning if left alone. Do you clean the barrels immediately afterward and apply a rust preventative?

I used Browning supers for years in skeet matches. A shot of WD40 prevented rust in the barrels. When you hear fellow shooters dog WD 40 remember that they are talking about it as a lubricant. I have used it with great results as a rust preventive here in LA. Believe me a day of shooting in 98/98 will rust most guns if they are not protected. temp = 98, humidity = 98 That build up is rust preventive it stops rust but is not good as a lubricant.

bill

Some of what looks like rust might be plastic residue from shot cups.
Mike

I bought a Lindner Daly featherweight 12ga from the 'for sale' section here a few weeks ago. When it arrived I balled out the seller when the bores he had represented as good looked like two matching sewer pipes.

I was so disgusted I put the gun away for a while before making any attempt to clean it up. When I spun a bronze brush wrapped with 4 ought steel wool soaked in WD40 through them, the bores transformed into mirrors. I apologized to the seller and it turned out his FFL had test fired the gun a bit without cleaning before he shipped it to my FFL.

After I cleaned it up I checked it again and the rust was back. I've still never fired the gun, but I will try some of the remedies posted in this thread. Does anyone think I may have a case of live rust which might benefit from a Naval Jelly treatment?...Geo

Years ago, I had a problem with after-rust in the bores of my black powder flintlocks. No matter how carefully I cleaned with boiling water, detergents, solvents, etc. followed by thorough drying and oiling, I would get red rust on a patch pushed through the bores.

I switched to Thompson Center Natural Lube 1000 for a patch and bullet lube and to protect the bore after cleaning (with hot water only) and the problem disappeared like magic. I thought that if this product protected black powder guns so well, it might be worth a try on my shotguns. I did, and it worked... even on those long rainy day hunts where I came home dog tired and put off cleaning my gun until the next day.

Geo, if your Daly has mirror bores when clean, I'd avoid the Naval Jelly. The phosphoric acid will clean any rust but it will also etch the metal.

Geo., barrel neglect is always the culprit.

Buy a bore snake, saturate it with the lube of your choosing, and keep it with your Lindner. Every time you shoot that gun, it will be in the case, ready to go.

That's the only remedy I've found that was easy, and cheap.

I buy bore snakes or their clones on Amazon, and just put them in the case and leave them.

I hunt salt water on occasion, and it's murder on old doubles.

I have seen old repeaters that have been used for 40 or more years in the rain and never cleaned and bores would clean to like new.If it were a high grade double bores would have been terrible. Bobby

Good point keith. Thanks...Geo