whats a cheap way to remove rust from a rifle barrel?

Question

the person i bought it from got it wet and put it up that way.it shoots great but the rust is pretty bad.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It highly depends on whether the rust is on the inside of the barrel or outside on the barrel or received. A bore brush with Breakfree Hoppes No. 9, WD40 or any other quality oil and vigorous scrubbing if on the inside of the barrel will generally remove most rust, however you may still have pitting.

If it is on the outside use one of the before mentioned oils with some 0000 steel wool wiping back and force gently and repeatedly until all rust is removed. Again this may leave some pitting depending on how bad the rust is. If the pitting is extremely severe you may want to have a gunsmith determine if the gun is still safe to fire, but again that would be only if pitting was extreme. You may touch up bluing removed with some store bought cold blue so that it at least looks serviceable and that also helps prevent future rusting or pitting if the weapon is kept cleaned and oiled properly.

Answer 3

Get some four ought (0000) steel wool and some oil. Put oil on the steel wool and rub the rust off the gun. It won't hurt the bluing but will get the rust off. Once you have the rust off, you can use some cold blue to touch up the areas wher the rust was.

Answer 4

Inside or outside ?
If inside, use a bore brush and CLP...good stuff.
Outside; do you care about the remaining bluing ?
If so, get some light oil and some 0000 [ four 0 ]
steel wool - go to work, gently.
If you don't care about the finish, use the same treatment
just a little deeper. You will need to protect the new surface afterwords

Answer 5

Use a bore brush wrapped in very fine steel wool & hoppes #9.*

Answer 6

soak it with Breakfree clp, let sit, wipe down. Do this several times. If it is too bad, you will need to have it re finished.

Answer 7

wd40 shoot clean and repeat. If you know anybody that works in the "plants or machine shop kroil is some great stuff

Answer 8

Shooting jacketed bullets will do that.

Answer 9

just keep shooting and cleaning it. it will go away.