Not only did Browning screw up with salt wood, in 1976 they made a Bi-centennial commemorative B-78 single shot. It came in a fancy wood case, well no salt wood but getting in a hurry they put the rifles in the cases before that carpenter's white glue that held the linings in place had thoroughly dried. On the long journey across the pond from Japan the lactic acid in the glue outgassed and rusted the crap out of the metal. They brought loads of those rifles into the gunsmith shop on pallets there were that many, case after case of brand new rifles. Every last one had to be disassembled, rust polished out and reblued, I personally worked on that fiasco till I was sick of it. Lotsa problems with Brownings during that time period, the .44 Magnum rifles had assorted problems, same with the BBR and Mitchell Garcia fishing reels, worked on the fishing reels for weeks on end.
