Thread: Rifles that don't age well

Originally Posted by Kelton

I don’t no what the deal is with the stainless thing it’s like it’s batch to batch, iv had a brand new tikka with spot rust out of the box nothing major what so ever more stains once cleaned up no erosion as such. A friend of mine had a sako 75 .270 that got spot rust looking at it to hard and a tikka 22-250 that did the same where as my tikka .308 at the time and my sako 85 7rm never got a spot and I don’t no that a rag ever touched the outside of the barrel on either of those rifles . 85 finnlights and carbonlights are both prone to the sort touch wearing like the browning I think a lot of it is probably cleaning products because again my finnlight didn’t get sticky nor peel over years of use .

Blood is terrible for marking stainless and I’m very conscious of getting it off asap now.

May I suggest not using the barrel as a spear then