Over on the Ruger Forum collectors site, a guy has a #1B in 30-06 made in 1976 with salt wood characteristics that are the same as my .300 #1S of the same vintage. He has not yet chenically tested it for salt in the wood and thus has not gotten the ssame answer I did -- salt.
Some guys there are also speculating about dye salts from the bluing oeration.
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Last edited by 1B; 01/13/11.
