hey, on the newer rifles and shotguns the bluing on the bbl. isn't like a flat black color like the older style, what is it? i am restoring an old 25-10cal. rimfire i have and i want the bbl. to look like the newer style........
thanks alot
-Mike
Mudmagnet: Bluing solutions and processes vary. New production rifles are blued differently from company to company. If you want that rifle reblued you should take a good, color photograph of an area of the barrel that retains the original bluing and contact various firearms restorers to see if it can me replicated. It can be expensive and generally impossible to do "at home".
Now the larger issue. Why would you want to destroy the character and value of such a nice, vintage rifle? If it's truly a Remington you will be damaging it beyond repair by having it refinished. You are young. I am not so young, and have seen far too many nice rifles ruined by well intentioned restoration. What you hope to be a source of pride when completed will probably only draw the wrath and distain of real, die-hard gunnies -and certainly of the collectors. They'll look at your refinishing and say. "Too bad it was refinished..."
Of course, it is YOUR rifle and you will (rightly) do with it as you please. This is just a little advice. Good luck! ~Andy
"Even the surest sword, in sorrow, bleeds for it's spoiling blow"
well the reason i redid the bbl. is because it was pretty rusty..... i got it looking great now, but right now i got it flat bluing thing, but i don't realy like it, i want the new look like the high gloss, and the but i had to do because it was almost black from gun powder and greese...... but i got it looking great now, i'm just waiting to get the spray varnish, its stains to the orignal-ist color i could get but the gloss/ protection isn't on it yet......
MudMagnet;
you might try to polish it before, and after blueing???
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...<sigh>....
And so another classic rimfire is lost to refurbishing...<sigh>...a shame.
MarinePMI
"Despite our ever-changing, ever-indignant world with its growing ignorance of and indifference to the ways of the wild, I remain a predator, pitying those who revel in artificiality and synthetic success while regarding me and my kind as relics of a time and place no longer valued or understood. I stalk a real world of dark wood and tall grass stirred by a restless wind blowing across sunlit water and beneath star-strewn sky. And on those occasions when I choose to kill,....I do so by choice, quickly, and with the learned efficiency of a skilled hunter." -- M. R. James
well think about it............ a rusted rifle with shitty butt and stock, or a re-finished rifle with a good looking clean bbl. and stock???? give it a thought............
MudMagnet,
...I think you missed the point. If you have, well...forget it. Hmmmm....
MarinePMI
"Despite our ever-changing, ever-indignant world with its growing ignorance of and indifference to the ways of the wild, I remain a predator, pitying those who revel in artificiality and synthetic success while regarding me and my kind as relics of a time and place no longer valued or understood. I stalk a real world of dark wood and tall grass stirred by a restless wind blowing across sunlit water and beneath star-strewn sky. And on those occasions when I choose to kill,....I do so by choice, quickly, and with the learned efficiency of a skilled hunter." -- M. R. James
no, i think all of you missed the point, the gun was stored in a non-heated, non-insulated, non-windproof barn for the last 30 years, along with a 303, 12ga, and a couple 22 cal's........ the bbls on all these guns are rusted pretty bad, the varnish on the wood is all flaking off of every gun...... my dad put them in a wooden box in the shed since the 70's....... they were all in SHITY condition....... trust me, i should have taken a pic before i started restoring them..........
Mike
I think what PMI's trying to say is that many old collectible firearms are worth more money in "original condition" whether it is rusty and pitted or not. Restoring an antique gun almost always takes away from the value and history of the piece.
On a side note....JHP is a forum seen by everyone. Please try to use a less colorful way of getting your point across in the future.
Scott
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MudMagent;
you may be like me, in the fact that I'm not in the market to sale guns.
Only too collect as many as I can.
I can appreciate, that others would like to keep a firearm stock.
And that they're worth more, left in the condition that they are in.
But if you don't plan on getting rid of them, then ????
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i don't plan on selling ANY of my guns........ we do kinda have a little more then we need but every one was my grandfathers that he left to my dad and now there mine and i want to keep them all just for that reason, this 25-10 i'm going to fire one round out of it cause i have 13 rounds, then its being cleaned again and this one is being hung above my window in my bedroom...... i usualy only keep the guns i use in my room but this one looks so cool, that i just gotta have it as a wall hanger in my room...... the only guns i MIGHT get rid of are one or two of the .22's, got about 5 .22's so i can spare 1 or 2......... still need to get a 12 ga. pump for duck, and i want a 270 or 30-06 for deer, moose, and bear........ my 303 is too heavy, i'm selling that one but i just bought that this year myself so theres no sentimental value to it........." except that i shot my first coyote with it...."
well this post was no help, so anyway i gotta go search the net to find my answer......
thanks......o wait, thanks for what???? well anyways....l8r guys
-Mike
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