Originally Posted by
Punchsteve
There was a particular smell I always associated with my dad's shotguns, which I could never find when I got my own guns and cleaning gear. He used to have a (very) rusty tin of the stuff which he'd had for years and years and he couldn't remember what it was. Years later I was kindly given a tin of Rangoon oil from an old gent who'd been shooting 60+ years and had always used the stuff.
Now, if only I could find out the origins of the sickly sweet aroma of the pipe tobacco granddad smoked...