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i bought a savage 93 i believe is the model number in 22 mag syn/blued. i hunt a swamp alot and figured i would need it for hogs and such. well, bought it yesterday morning and shot it with iron sights then headed to the woods. spent the afternoon walking around with it and got back home and left the gun in the truck. i know its a 229 dollar gun and i just thought it was the best thing since sliced bread but went to get in the truck this morning and it was covered in rust as bad as i have ever seen a gun in 12 hours. again, i know its a cheap gun but should it do this that fast. i have wuite a bit of guns , but most are a little higher grade and this has never happened. any ideas?

Combine moisture with ferrous metal and you're likely to get oxidization, rust. Exactly the reason that I prefer stainless metal for firearms that I'm going to carry during our humid summers.

Give it a good rub down with an oily rag to remove the existing rust and rub it down whenever you use it. CM rifles just require more attention in humid/damp/wet conditions.

Jeff

If it is beyond what an oily rag will take care of, use some 0000 steel wool with oil on it. Also, wax (like Johnson's paste wax) on the blued metal helps a lot.

You're right, rubbing in a good coat of Johnson's Wax offers better, longer lasting, protection to non-stainless metal. Heck, if you neglect it enough, you can get ss to rust. I learned this lesson the hard way by putting a minty S&W 19 into a leather holster that I didn't notice was damp.

Jeff

Bingo. Lightly rub with oiled 0000 steel wool to remove the rust, then clean the oil off and apply a couple of light coats of Johnson's Paste Wax. If it can keep my 60 year old Mauser from rusting after a week of freezing rain, sleet, snow, in and out of heated cars, below freezing weather and heated tents, it should work fine to keep your Savage from rusting.

Good hunting.