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Cyn71 a linseed soaked chamois cloth or durrum canvas ( no longer made except for Australian Dry as a bone coats ) wrapped around the gun will give a logical explanation for a gun to be in good condition

linseed soaked chamois is just about air proof and so no moisture gets in

axle grease and durrum canvas where used in a few caches in real history

durrum canvas is a waxed fine weave canvas

no-one would be able to validly argue against such a gun from surviving even in very good condition as they have been found in exactly such condition

heck look up the IRA from the 1820's arms cache they found when excavating , now all collectors peices and bringing top dollar, they are all as they where stolen from the dunwish armoury in 1819 and put away , they hung the guy who buried them and where only found in 2004 or 5

they where greased with axle grease and wrapped in oilcloth and put in a crude lead box and sat there the whole time