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Post by omegahunter on Aug 11, 2014 15:19:09 GMT -5
One of my friends brought over his new Hoosier last night for me to mount up his scope and get it ready for the range. I first gave it a swipe with a Rem Oil cloth and got a bluish black mark on the cloth. When I wiped the end of the muzzle all the "bluing" color came off down to the bare metal. Anyone ever had anything like this happen before? No solvents or anything, just Rem Oil on a clean cloth.
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Post by drs on Aug 12, 2014 4:29:07 GMT -5
Jason, personally I've never heard of gun blueing being "rub-off" using a cleaning cloth with some gun oil. Quite just the opposite, as a good cleaning with oil should preserve the blue finish on a rifle.
Was your friend's rifle happen to be a stainless steel type?? If so then I could see regular blueing not sticking to the metal. I once had a stainless steel Ruger MDL-77 and didn't care about the shine the rifle had, so I sent the rifle to a place in Phoenix, Arizona called ROBAR, where they blued my rifle using "Chrome-Sulfide" process which gave my rifle's metal a nice smooth matte finish. They did an excellent job and the finish is very durable. Your friend might contact them to properly blue his rifle. Cost will run in the neighborhood of $200.00.
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Post by omegahunter on Aug 13, 2014 10:29:47 GMT -5
Looks like I will probably get some OxphoBlue and cold-blue his muzzle for him. Just where the barrel was cut and crowned is where the "bluing" came off. It almost looks like the barrel was blued before being cut and crowned. I would have thought that the barrel would have been chambered/cut/crowned before applying the finish. I found out the barrel finish is GunKote and not traditional bluing.
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Post by HuntMeister on Aug 13, 2014 10:57:53 GMT -5
If it was my rifle, i would be getting a hold of whoever built it and asking them to fix it. Maybe the barrel was dropped damaging the crown and they had to redo it?
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