I opened my magazine drawer in my basement to grab my mkIII mags on Friday.....only to discover that those mags had an uneven film of rust on them. I was able to clean them up with oil and steel wool (it was all surface rust and no pitting). No other mags for any of the other guns had rust on them (even the beat-up GI mags for my 1911).
I got my mkIII out of the safe and checked the mag. It had rust on it also.
The last time I shot the mkIII was in July. I'm wondering what I handled at that point that could have caused the mags to rust like that? Weird that nobody else was rusting.
Edit: I double-checked all the mags for the other guns that I fired at the same event (Beretta, CZ, 10/22) and they're all ok. As a negative control I pulled the mag out of my other mkIII (one I didn't handle in July) and it was fine.
pistol magazine mystery
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