Thread: No more rusty firearms

When l was guiding in the UK ,l got to know a few of the old Game Keepers on large estates many who came down from long lines of Market Shooters which l have always found fascinating ( born in the wrong era ,wishful thinking & all that ).

Those old blokes hunted the salt marshes & flats in terrible conditions & would coat the guns metal with 3 parts boiled linseed oil & 1 part Turps ,when we lived & hunted the Arafura Swamp in Arnhem Land, which was both salt encrusted & humid, where we hunted the sky blackening flocks of geese & ducks (so lots of monsoonal down pours,heat,sweat & wet & bloody hands all over guns for extended times) l used the same ,you apply it in a number of coats & it sets like a varnish, worked very well .

Later when Lanotec (lanolin oil)became freely available in the large containers, l also used it applied like the Romans would do with their swords ,where the metal is heated up & coated ie left in sun, near fire etc & then multiple coats applied & allowed to soak in , also did it with our Quads & Bull catchers that were running over & through salt swamps,creeks, flats & beaches ,worked really well in probably some of the harshest environments in the world.

Being a old busted ass Shearer l also liked the smell, reminds me, l might put a couple of dabs behind the missus ears tonight