"I would get upset at them for bring in their Autoloading shot guns that they had "sprayed down and put away" after the last hunting season. Now they went to get ready for a little duck shooting and found they could no longer open the action.
The worst of these was always the Browning A-5's and the Remington clones of the A-5.
Nor should I have felt bad about the tang areas of rifle stocks that went soft from the WD soaks."
Well, Big,
It's kind of funny that you say essentially the same thing I said but come up with a completely different conclusion. "Sprayed down and put away" is exactly what I said people should not do with their trigger mechanisms. Trigger mechanisms should be thoroughly cleaned with a "gun scrubber" type of solvent, blown dry and lightly lubed with a good gun oil. "Spraying down" a dirty mechanism with WD-40 or anything similar and leaving it that way is an invitation to gumminess. It's not the WD-40 or any other "gunsmith-in-a-can" that caused the gumminess, it's the fact that the mechanism was never cleaned in the first place.
Your "tang areas of rifle stocks that went soft from the WD soaks." are not anything that I, or anyone else recommends.
Banana Oil??? You've got to be joking! The contents of WD-40 are available on the Internet, on the chemical information site. No mention of banana oil, that I recall.
Go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40 if you really want to know anything about it. Or don't, if you prefer to wallow in old wives' tails and hearsay.
