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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:53 am
by ForbidInjustice
My other pistol in that safe is a Springfield XD, and I'm up in Iowa right now so I don't have the weapon [I wish that blasted CHL was valid in MN and IA!] but I swear there was copper-coloured lube on it as well. I will check when I get home. I've been doing the steel wool treatment on every single rust-looking spot that I see on the gun, and it has been fine. It seems that the same spot seems to want to rust over and over again.. I hear that's common.
But no, they are on different shelves in the gun case, so no chance of cootie transfer.
Re: guns & bleach water
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:14 am
by RPBrown
westernamerican wrote:Venus Pax wrote:Since I'm home for the next few months, I'm taking on the bigger chores that don't get done during the school year.
Today was clean-two-exterior-walls-of-the-house day. This required a bleach water and laundry detergent solution.
I've made it a habit to wear a gun anytime I'm not inside my locked house. Although I never meant for the bleach solution to get anywhere but my siding, I got cleaned up too.
When I checked my gun later that day, I noticed that a few rustish patches were starting to appear. I cleaned these areas promptly with Hoppes #9 & followed with gun oil.
Just a reminder that our guns don't likely bathe as often as we do, yet they're out and about running errands and working just like we are. Do a little spot check regularly. I'm glad I did.
Now if I could just get the smell of bleach out of my nostrils. :x
Where in this world do you live that you feel that you have to have a gun on if you are outside of your locked house? Where ever it is, I am sure glad I don't live there............
Almost anywhere in the world. Do you feel 100% safe in your yard !00% of the time? I don't. And I live in a fairly safe area. But still, I don't go out unarmed.
