11 Things Gunsmiths Don't Want You To Know About Motor Oil (#4 Ruins Bluing)

The Gun You Think You Know: wendellcoffey.com Men have run motor oil on their guns for forty years without a spot of rust. They're not wrong. But nobody splits the inside of a gun from the outside, or a gun you shoot from a gun that sits — and that's where the trouble is. Thirty years a wildlife officer in upper East Tennessee. Seven years behind a gun counter writing the price tags. Now I'm writing down what I know before it goes out the door with somebody's safe. Number four is why a gun you oiled all winter comes out marked in January, and it isn't the reason everybody gives you. Tell me in the comments: what did your father oil his guns with? And go put your thumb on the wood behind the tang of the oldest gun in your house — tell me what you found.