seeking bluing information
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:15 pm
I'm not asking for advice on ReBluing... but rather How/What is bluing
such that my new-Old TruckGun is worn the way it is...
Last weekend, I got a Marlin-39a 1977 "truck gun"....
it looks pretty poor, but is complete, the bore is clean
it cycles/ ejects/ feeds great and is pleasant to shoot.
I spent over four-hours last Sunday for a complete (dis)assembly
and went over every part I could with #00-wool and GunOil...
I was not trying to re-expose bare metal, just get the surface
"crud" off... the barrel is totally un-blued... all gone, oxidized
somehow... even on the under-side along the Mag-Tube
and under the ForeStock...
Does this happen when the rifle sits in the bed of a PU-truck and
gets rained on... a few times... or when it falls out of the BassBoat
and gets pulled up a little later...
I'm kinda partial to it the way it is... especially since it is a nice-shooter.
(now I'm looking for a 336/30-30 truck gun to go with it... )
I've ordered a Skinner Sight to go on it...
any ideas on How the bluing got eat-up? looking to be edjumacated.
Gun-*****-1 * * * Gun-*****-2
such that my new-Old TruckGun is worn the way it is...
Last weekend, I got a Marlin-39a 1977 "truck gun"....
it looks pretty poor, but is complete, the bore is clean
it cycles/ ejects/ feeds great and is pleasant to shoot.
I spent over four-hours last Sunday for a complete (dis)assembly
and went over every part I could with #00-wool and GunOil...
I was not trying to re-expose bare metal, just get the surface
"crud" off... the barrel is totally un-blued... all gone, oxidized
somehow... even on the under-side along the Mag-Tube
and under the ForeStock...
Does this happen when the rifle sits in the bed of a PU-truck and
gets rained on... a few times... or when it falls out of the BassBoat
and gets pulled up a little later...
I'm kinda partial to it the way it is... especially since it is a nice-shooter.
(now I'm looking for a 336/30-30 truck gun to go with it... )
I've ordered a Skinner Sight to go on it...
any ideas on How the bluing got eat-up? looking to be edjumacated.
Gun-*****-1 * * * Gun-*****-2