Muzzie cleaning question....rust

[vabuckbuster]

I have a CVA Blued Optima that I just noticed has some rust accumulated on the breach end of the barrel and on the hammer side. I used some solvent/cleaner, rubbed and oiled. Not much came off. is it ok to scrub this rust off with a metal brush? will that hurt the blue? In the manual, when it refers to using a bore brush on the barrel, it doesn't say the type of brush. I'm assuming it means the copper or brass brushes I see for cleaning? Which leads me back to my original question of using this same type brush anyhwere on the gun?

 

[smokepolehall]

bore brush of bronze for the surface rust take a pencil eraser to the rust then abit of solvent or wd40. for oil Rem gun oil is very good

 

[Jbuck]

I am guessing it is on the outside of the barrel? I used to work in a small gun shop, when we got a trade with a little surface rust we had good luck with fine steel wool and oil.

 

[vabuckbuster]

So the steel wool and smolepolls bronze definitely wont show scratch marks or effect the bluing? As you can tell I've made a wrong move or two before!

 

[Wildcat]

Never use WD-40 on any firearm.

WD stands for Water Displacement.
WD 40 will not clean, it will lube. It will not protect like most gun oils. Your guns will be fine, but I suggest getting some real gun lube that will protect them.

You need something with CLP(Cleaning Lubricant Protection). I've used Break Free CLP for years and stick by it.