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Posted: 12/4/2006 5:46:09 PM EDT
| Will anything Happen to my Sar-1 if i put it under my bed wrapped in a bed cover. theres no air getting in there |
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Two things are real important when storing a firearm, keep it oiled, and dry. CLP seems to be a real good lubricant, I love the way it crawls all over the metal. Desicant is a good investment and its not real expensive, some types are reactivateable. A hard case can protect better against accidental flooding. A silicone bag could'nt hurt either. |
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THE stocks and handguards will dry and crack. Living in AZ is no guarantee that you will not suffer from rust. All you need is a few days of moist weather and its rust bucket time. They sell bags for storage so get 1. Then clean the rifle really good. Allow the stocks and handguards to soak up as much Linseed oil as possible. Oil the heck out of the weapon. Store. Check on weapon weekly. This is not a throw it under the bed and come back to it in a year thing. You've put good money into a weapon and you should take care of it on a regular basis regardless if you are firing it or not. So perform a weekly check on your stored firearm. |
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Get one of the treated gun socks and don't put any oil on it. What you're looking for is basically a dust cover - no other container is necessary or desired, unless it's a hard case with no foam inside. Clean the rifle and oil/grease it before putting it into the sock for long-term 'in-the-house' storage. If the rifle has been fired, pay particular attention to the bolt, carrier/piston, gas port/chamber, breech chamber, bore and muzzle (if it has a muzzle attachment) to remove any firing residues and make sure all surfaces are protected with a light film of preservative oil (any kind of CLP - Breakfree, FP-10, etc.). Ideally, any guns would be stored as in an armory, on a rack in a room inside an occupied building, with no covers on them. Very few of us can manage something like this, so we have to make do as best we can. I use a double-door steel security cabinet inside of a closet and check on my guns frequently. Prior to that, I just stacked them in the back of the closet, some of them in their original cardboard boxes, and never had any problems with that. I live in the Mid-Atlantic, a humid area, but the house is heated and air-conditioned, so humidity is more or less under control. The key to it is FREQUENT INSPECTION to make sure nothing is going on - at least every month. As for the wood furniture, linseed oil will do no good if the wood is finished in varnish, since it can't get to the actual wood. If the wood is bare, raw linseed oil is a great idea and is what the military used when wood stocks were in use. Here, drying and cracking wood isn't normally a problem, but I can see it happening in the dry AZ climate. Another good oil for the metal and wood is Ballistol, and it's much more penetrating than linseed oil. A trick for increasing linseed oil penetration is to mix it with turpentine or mineral spirits. Since you're talking about putting the rifle under your bed, you might have to take into account what some of these chemicals smell like and for how long. I love the smell of linseed oil and gun oil, but don't think I'd have it under my bed if I expected a woman to share it. Here's a reference for a treated gun sock - they're cheap. http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ZAA128-571-1861.html |
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ETA: Wanna know how the iraqis and Jihaddis store theirs? Cover them in used motor oil (Handguards and all), wrapp them in plastic, and put them in a tarp or refrigerator and bury them. They seem to work fine, if I recall correctly, but only when used AUTHENTICALLY and fired in the "beirut offhand" method. |
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I think i might just go with this they sell it at my Walmart and its not gonna be for long it just when im not using it which is mostly just like 2 days so this will work. www.remington.com/products/accessories/storage_&_safety/gun_sock.asp |
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