Quote Originally Posted by Punchsteve View Post
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...
Do you smoke a pipe?, if so you can get all the old traditional pipe tobacco from THE BLACK SWAN BACCY SHOP IN SCARBOURGH, it's all there, plug, ready rubbed. If you don't smoke you will probably smell it by chance and start following some oldie along the street " excuse me sir what's that tobacco your smoking"
It's funny that when I smell pipe smoke the first thought is of my grandad, I know exactly what you mean