Rust?

[Adam83]

I have to admit I'm sort of a novice when it comes to cleaning my pistols. I know how to do it, but I pretty much just clean them and then forget about them.

Anyway, I just bought a Ruger P95 that was only 5 months old. I used an LED light to look in the slide and the metal looks orange. It can't be rust. It's been in a gun store display case.

Is the orange stuff factory grease? It's a blued slide, and the finish is perfect. The finish is worn in some spots, but there's no rust.

Has anyone else had this with a blued finish pistol? Should I be worried?

 

[rcmodel]

No.

Very likely is it factory presertive oil drying out.

Or bluing salts reside coming to the surface in the presertive oil.

Clean it good, and reapply firearms lubricating oil, and I think you will be good to go.

rc

 

[Chicken-Farmer]

Use a paper towel

Take a paper towel and run it through the barrel. See what the paper towel looks like when you are done. It certainly could be rust mixed with oil. If this is the case clean the barrel and re-apply oil. Use CLP or another good rust preventative when your pistol is stored. If you use a brass cleaning brush wipe the brush on a paper towel as well and see if your brush is dirty. You might just be spreading rust around with a dirty brush.

 

[Adam83]

False alarm!! It was something that came right off with a paper towel. It wasn't rust, but an orange-brownish residue of some kind.

Sorry to be OCD about my guns LOL I have always been a perfectionist.

 

[rightside]

Glad it worked out.

 

[CWL]

False alarm!! It was something that came right off with a paper towel. It wasn't rust, but an orange-brownish residue of some kind.

Sorry to be OCD about my guns LOL I have always been a perfectionist.

You need to shoot more so your guns will look broken-in and used. Stop obsessing with how a gun looks, spend your energies on placing your bullets on-target.

Also, don't use paper towels on your guns, use cleaning patches, 100% cotton or micro fiber. Rough paper can and will put micro scratches on your shootin-irons. If you don't believe this, go and rub your car's paint with one and take a look at the swirls you just made.