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Took a 1894 Remington C grade over to Bachelders for him to examine. The stock had broken very clean in the wrist when I took a shot in SC's. It just came apart- the receiver in my left hand, the stock in my right. After some discussion he noticed quite a few very, very small lines running from under the top tang down to the trigger guard. Said they were insects and had only seen it once before. Like itey bity termites they had weakened the wood. I've had the gun for about 2 1/2 years and he thought they were in there when I bought it. Now I have another 20 or so guns in that same small room. Maybe have to fumigate it. Paul
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My first thought is "Powder post Beetles"
MSU has a nice article on them.
I've never seen them in walnut. I thought they required a higher moisture content. I've seen them a lot in barn wood however.
They are easily thwarted w/ boron products. I often make storage cabinets out of timbers that are wormholed. They get sprayed w/ insecticide after cutting the timber into planks.
Bring that stock to your shoot, as I'd like to see it. I'd tend to believe it was infested earlier in it's life, and broke now. Between the oil finish, and storage requirements of steel, I'd agree with Brad.
Out there doing it best I can.
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Needless to say-if there is powder around where that gun was stored the infestation is active. Boron is the trick and not at all dangerous to people. I sure hope you arnt in a log home.
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Brad is going to fix it. What is boron? No log home. Can these critters spread to my other guns?
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We dont really know what the critter is yet. If its powder post-and i dont know them to go after gun wood, they usually show up in log cabins and wood that is not well sealed -boron kills them. Boron is in Borax and supplies sold to log home owners to be easily sprayed. (PS-I see the wiki article even mentions gun stocks as a target of the beetle) Eyeball all the other wood for the telltail little hole.
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We used to see lots of insect infestation evidence in containers of walnut antiques coming in from Europe. Containers all got fumigated when they hit the docks, never saw anything active after that.
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The wood Brad saw it in came from Europe.
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In housing, powder post beetles like most, unventilated areas and OAK.
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