People talk about blued guns like they'll rust to pieces if you touch them and don't immediately lather them with oil...

People talk about blued guns like they'll rust to pieces if you touch them and don't immediately lather them with oil. But 150 years ago, people literally lived outside with blued guns.
How did they manage to keep their guns frum rusting?

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Their hands werent acidic with the shit that oozes from us now, thanks to the water supply chemicals.

They didn't, they just kept them oiled to minimize it.

They wiped them down with oil.

Duh?

Wiped them with oil a lot.

Also they did rust but people weren't pussies about it.

Yeah people weren't nit picky little faggots about everything.

According to red dead redemption 2, they would rub gun oil vigorously on one small part of the gun, which would remove rust, pitting, and fouling immediately over all metal parts and restore the stock to a lustrous sheen.

The oil for the guns and other parts at that time were usually tallow or lard, of obviously animal origin. Case in point, the Sepoy Mutiny, that created this instance during the British Raj or Company Raj.

My brother's hand prints are extremely acidic, stripping the bluing off of guns in mere days, whereas mine is completely inert. What gives?

>How did they manage to keep their guns frum rusting?
Bacon grease. It ain't just for cooking.

Their guns were rusty as fuck. They wore raggedy hand-made clothes that would often be patched up and torn. They didn't bathe every day or even every week. You think they really took care of their guns?

Seriously? They took better care of their gun and their knife than anything else they owned. Rust gets you dead back then.

Bluing was better back then. Everything was rust blued, which is more durable than the hot bluing typically used today. That said, the fragility of bluing in general is overstated except cold bluing, which is actually shit for durability

There were nonexistent EPA regulations, back in the day. Pure Death could be used in blueing that would kill a child laborer for every gun.

Really there are so many ways to blue and protect gun metal. Oil quenching and caustic blueing with no regard for arsenic etc work well.

Interesting. Does anyone still do rust blueing for guns?

Yes.
Theres kits so you can do it at home as well.

Also look at Plumb Brown and tons of directions for using things like bleach that you'll find online. Remington still uses lots of green because their rifles were originally "blued" to a shade of dark green.

>How did they manage to keep their guns frum rusting?
They immediately lathered them with oil after touching them before they rust to pieces.

There's literally a whole game mechanic based around that in RDR2.

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That trigger discipline. RDR2 confirmed pleb AF

A lot of them did rust. If you were smart and wealthy you'd get them nickle plated. Otherwise, you oil and keep out of moisture to the best of your abilities.

It's historically accurate. TD wouldn't become a widespread thing for another 70-ish years.

Pietta rust blues all their firearms they make in Mexico.

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