New to me Arty Luger

[mrerick]

Hi Sean,

Welcome to the forum and thank you for your service!

Ron's advice ("Mauser720") is excellent and based upon quite a bit of experience.

A 95 year old firearm will naturally have some subsurface rust (FeO3 form of Iron Oxide) and, in fact, is what collectors look for to verify the age of an original factory rust blued finish like your Arty should have.

The areas where oxide is aggressively pitting the surface need to be stabilized, and penetrating oil and gentle q-tip class rubbing can help remove the rust itself. Be careful about going much further without letting members here have a look at pictures...

Marc

[Florida Marine]

Originally Posted by mrerick

Hi Sean,

Welcome to the forum and thank you for your service!

Ron's advice ("Mauser720") is excellent and based upon quite a bit of experience.

A 95 year old firearm will naturally have some subsurface rust (FeO3 form of Iron Oxide) and, in fact, is what collectors look for to verify the age of an original factory rust blued finish like your Arty should have.

The areas where oxide is aggressively pitting the surface need to be stabilized, and penetrating oil and gentle q-tip class rubbing can help remove the rust itself. Be careful about going much further without letting members here have a look at pictures...

Marc

Point taken, all it has received is a rub down from the wash cloth I borrowed from the hotel in PA yesterday. Have not had the time to do anything and will stay away until I get some guidance from you all!

I build and collect a number of other weapons, just not WWII German stuff. I have a Remington Rand .45 from WWII that was my fathers also.

Now that I think about it I guess I do have another German weapon, I have a Mauser my Grandad got somewhere, and sadly sportorized. I also have a over/under .410/.45 German tear gas gun, looks like a derringer with a fold under trigger...neat was my dad's also.

All my stuff is current military issue or I use it for hunting, my main passion.