I don't store guns in socks, but use them all the time when cleaning and handling guns. I put a few drops of oil on them, roll them up and store them in a container with a lid. When the time comes I slide my hand into the sock and rub down the barrel, receiver and any other metal surfaces that I have handled when using the gun. My dad was a stickler about wiping down guns after use.....me too.
Old cotton socks for pistol barrels.
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I wouldn't do it, there are simply too many better options. Just because some have had success doesn't make it is a good idea. Perhaps they live in an area of the country with very low natural humidity. I've seen ruined finishes on too many guns stored in cotton.
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Guys that are fearful of cotton better avoid Sack-Ups.
Those are a LONG WAYS AWAY from plain old cotton socks. Didn't you notice the anti corrosion additives?
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Sure I did. Did you notice back on page 1 where I said cotton socks and your favorite corrosion additive sprayed on them worked just fine?Those are a LONG WAYS AWAY from plain old cotton socks. Didn't you notice the anti corrosion additives?
Nope - my bad!
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I use heavy (arctic) GI wool socks to transport my handguns to & from the range. Thickest darn socks I ever saw.
Instead of using socks go to a craft store or the fishing supply dept. of Walmart and buy some plastic boxes with long narrow dividers and store your barrels in it. I can understand wanting to prevent stuff banging into each other but you are better off using something that is non absorbent. I have tool box drawers filled with gunsmithing tools and reamers and they are all in plastic boxes or tubes. You can even place dessicant in the box if you live in a humid area.
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I learned a couple things from this thread. Years ago I worked in the woods wearing 10" corked boots and heavy rag wool socks that extended at least 3 inches above the boot top. Saved all the socks for occasional hunting use and started storing mostly revolvers in them. Barrels from 6 to 8 3/8". The socks cover the whole handgun, grips and all. I've been doing this for 40 years in gun safes inside my residence's. Some houses were within one mile of the ocean, one in the mountains and this last one in the valley. I've always heated with wood and don't have much of a humidity problem. Summer or winter. I have never had a problem. Some of the Colt Police Positives and Officer Model Target revolvers are over 60 years old. Some over 70.
Never thought about cotton, never had heavy socks made out of it. My only problem, all hand guns are in the same looking sock. If I want to use a particular weapon I end up looking at about half of them until I find it. So by accident they get checked semi regularly.
Never thought about cotton, never had heavy socks made out of it. My only problem, all hand guns are in the same looking sock. If I want to use a particular weapon I end up looking at about half of them until I find it. So by accident they get checked semi regularly.
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I thought clowns creeped me out...I now have a phobia about sock monkeys too...
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Checking your guns at least "semi-regularly" is never a bad idea, but you can buy a stack of those little, cardboard tags with strings on them at most any office supply store, or even in the office supplies section in supermarkets. The tags are what we use because we store even our long guns in silicone impregnated sacks in our gun safe. It's not hard to tell my wife's shotguns and rifles from mine because most of her long guns are cut down - she's only 5'2". But that's about as far as it goes for us when it comes to identifying a gun in a sack without one of those tags.
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I think Barnacle Bill the sailor would approve. 
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