Yeah it can't be rusted but so badly because before the scope went bad it shot pretty well. I was with him before this black powder season when he shot it. It may have had some rust as he says it does and I didn't look super close but it wasn't bad enough that I saw it from just looking at it from a couple feet away. I didn't look down the bore so can't say too much about how that looked but it did shoot pretty decently.