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You ever try to figure out what year it was made?
Could steam the gun if you can get the wood off, it will turn the rust to black oxide( bluing) and stop it from rusting anymore. Oil it and put the stock back on and hang up. For my self I'd think it would be a cool project to get it shooting again.
I would use this first (QMAXX Industrial):My wife's uncle is a great guy, and when he moved to Oklahoma a while ago he gave me an 1873 Winchester chambered in 32-20. It's a mess. Rifle was run over by a piece of equipment at one point, it's not shootable. The action has a bend and it's rather crusty.
What materials would you use to clean it up?
The problem with Evapo-Rust is that it removes everything and leaves you with bare metal.
This fits your situation PERFECTLY
Subject: DiResta Winchester 1873 - A VERY RARE RESTORATION
What would it look like if you applied Mauser Lover's method, boil and brush almost like rust bluing?
Good advice. Whatever you do stay completely away from aluminum oxide for your blasting media. It will literally eat a hole in metal if you let it.
I would fix it
Sure, send it to Turnbull and give them 5000 bucks.......