Battling Rust

[BananaTyrant]

I have an old Winchester Model 77 I picked up from a friends dad. It has some light to moderate rust on the outside of the barrel, and I was hoping someone could give me some pointers on how to remove/stop it from spreading. I've taken a wire brush to it but it didn't help much. Please keep in mind I can't afford a whole lot and I don't have a car, so hardware store type remedies would be most helpful.

On another note, I have a bit of a jamming/ejection/feeding problem with it. Not entirely sure which. It does a little of all of them, and sometimes it seems like one will be caused by another. I first fired unjacketed rounds through it, but was recommended jacketed by the rangemaster. That halved the jams, but didn't stop them. I also started loading the mags one light and that halved the jams again, but I still usually get one per magazine.

I just finished a major clean earlier, first I've had the time after I found how to take it apart, so hopefully that will help too. Unfortunately while cleaning it it seemed like my friend's dad had never cleaned it(god rest his recently departed soul).

[Dangerous1]

I hear 000 steel wool is effective against light rust.
For future protection, ofcourse keep it regularly lubed but also, go out and find Eezox or CorrosionX.

[Hayashi Killian]

+1 for steel wool, works on rust.

If you're getting constant jams under those circumstances, it sounds like there's a problem with the magazine spring. If lessening the load lowers the amount of jams you get, the spring might be wearing down. There could also be a lot of gunk in there, since it's rusting it sounds like it's not been cleaned as well as it should be. I'd say clean it thoroughly, including getting rid of the rust, giving it a good coating of lube, and see where you are with jams. If they're still persistent, getting a replacement mag spring wouldn't be a bad investment.

[BananaTyrant]

I forgot to mention one of my mags is a factory 8 round and the second is an after market 7rd. The 8rd came with the gun when my friend's dad bought it. I bought the 7rd after I got the gun in February. Both of them jam less with one less loaded.

[Blue]

I'd use CLP and clean the hell out of it. My wifes uncles father (still with me? ) had a Sako from the 70's in his closet since well, the 70's. He showed it to me once and the grease/oil inside of it had hardened, and it wouldn't cock, fire, or anything. The safety was even stuck. I had to take it all apart, soak, scrub, and clean it to get it working again. I dunno WTF him or Sako put in there but it was crusty as all hell. If you cleaned it tonight, try it out and see if it's working properly.

[Deal]

Don't worry about the rust. It is like ridding a bike.

Just pick yourself up off the floor and climb back on.

She will admire your courage.

Stay off the internet, that ain't real.

[BananaTyrant]

Don't worry about the rust. It is like ridding a bike.

Just pick yourself up off the floor and climb back on.

She will admire your courage.

Stay off the internet, that ain't real.

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What?

[Sunwolf]

Huh?On the other hand a gunsmith told me once that brake fluid and steel wool works fine on rust.

[bombadillo]

gonna have to re blue my dads mossberg 500 because I did the 0000 steel wool on it and it pretty much went right through the bluing. I'm deciding on duracoat black or re bluing it.