Bill: lololol. Geez man, if I ate that much garlic I'd prolly be sweatin' inside my pants holster too (lol).........
John: 1911 has some great advice. If that does not work for you then here is something I learned from a gunsmith who converted a Winchester Black Shadow with a 1/2 length mag tube to a full length tube but in doing so left cut outs in the bottom of the barrel for screw holes and wedges, etc. He used bedding compound to fill the holes. He made up a small batch the same coloer as the barrel, black, and although it looked like a matt finish where he applied it, he filled the holes and wedge cut out perfectly and you have to look very, very closely to see the difference between where he bedded up the holes/wedges and the rest of the barrel. Granted, the blue on the Black Shadow is not the blue on a Chilean Mauser but since the rust holes are under the stock you would never see them.
He made up the small batch of bedding compound and applied it, andjust after it set up he smoothed the contours of the bedding with 4-0 steel wool I believe, which dressed it right up. Hope this helps.
