I do the vinegar wash/soak on axe heads, I'm sure it will work. I still think I'd leave it in the bed of the truck for a month before fugging with it.
LOL! Belly crawling about a 100 yards thru the high weeds and gravel after a herd bull in 2015 did a pretty good number on my Browning! Also shutting the gun safe door on the buttstock wasn't kind either!!
Actually i was crawling on hands and knees most of the way. With rifle dragging along