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Browning Salt Guns

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24 August 2021, 13:54
DCS Member
Browning Salt Guns
What have y’all done to deal with this? I took care of it with an Olympian rifle, and any collector value was lost.

I have a Midas .410 and guess I should just shoot it and laugh at my misses unless there are better ideas.


I meant to be DSC Member...bad typing skills.

Marcus Cady

DRSS
24 August 2021, 17:58
Jim Kobe
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The problem is with the wood. If not too bad the metalcan be redone, the engraving recut. Can't save the wood. Restock it, sorry


Jim Kobe
10841 Oxborough Ave So
Bloomington MN 55437
952.884.6031
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28 August 2021, 17:56
Stonecreek
The level of salt infiltration varies some bit with Brownings. Some of them are "a bit" salty and others are really salty. Those which are "lightly salted" (so to speak) can be sealed on the interior to largely stop the corrosive action of the salt-impregnated wood. The "really salty" ones usually corrode the metal so badly by the time the problem was discovered that the firearm is almost a total loss.