Originally Posted by
hometheaterman
So I have a Remington Genesis I in the blued and camo combo a little over a year ago when Cabelas had them onsale. This year during black powder season I left it loaded for about a week. Ever since then it seems like the inside of the barrel has had a little rust. I get some brown coming out on my patches. Other than that week I've always kept it clean and well oiled. Maybe even over oiled. Well, I was cleaning it tonight and not only am I still getting brown on the patches I noticed right in the crown of the barrel there seemed to be a little rust as well as ontop of the barrel right at the front sight a little rust seemed to be forming. I've never had any gun rust like this. What's going on here? Is this about the crappiest metal there is or what? It still shoots good but I'm wondering how much longer this gun will actually last. It's only like a year old.
Depending on the oil you use it may just be that on the patches. You will get rust on blued barrels especially on the end as this is where you touch it the most when loading and bumping into things, or as it touches say the floor in your car or truck on the way to and from Hunting (if this is how you transport it) I found that just by wiping it down with a little oil will take off the rust, it will come back but just wipe it off again with some oil.
If there is pitting on the inside of the barrel than that's different, but I cant see by just having it loaded for a week, even if it was shot and not swabbed that the rust would pit that fast and cause damage.
(BP)