Patched Round Ball Shooters Out There?

[ACLSRN50]

Thanks bro! I'll check it out! Off to the family now for our Thanksgiving dinner!
Happy Thanksgiving all!

Please keep those in mind today that have passed, can no longer be with us, our US Military, and those homeless and not as fortunate - even our animals in shelters and homeless animals as well!

If you see a stray animal do God's work and feed the poor thing!

Thanks all!

[RG]

LOL. Yeah I would love to have my Great Plains rifle have browned metal parts versus blued for a truly authentic look!
I had also been seeking a Johnathan Browning Mountain rifle as well - but had no luck in finding any!
But the Lyman's are really nice as well! That darn rifle cost me $100 MORE than my modern Savage 111 and 212's did!

You can remove your blueing and do a plum brown on it.  Pretty easy to do and the results look nice.  Just need a torch and some cotton rags.

If you decide to brown it, go to Track of the Wolf's website and find a cold brown solution and do it that way.  It takes a couple weeks but it lasts for years.  The plum brown doesn't last nearly as long.  I've built about 2 dozen +- muzzleloaders over the years and learned this from experience.  My two hunting rifles I currently use were built in 1990 and 91 and have been carried a lot in the woods.  The wood needs to be refinished where I hold them but the brown is still in great shape.  Plum brown would have been worn off several times by now.

[RG]

OK thanks,
That's OK. MY buddy has a Cabela's Hawken that he made from a kit and he browned his barrel. His came out nice....I don't know tho if I want to really go thru all that just to have a browned barrel now! LOL. Prob is a real PITA to do. I once tried to blue a barrel making a Navy Arms .58 cal Hawken once and what a PITA is was to get that barrel to take that bluing!

I've tried bluing blue as well, but never with it hot.  The blue stuff seems to be done cold and doesn't turn out as well for me.  The plum is just an amazing finish and pretty durable as I'm not the most conscientious gun cleaner sometimes.  The other thing is that if there are aluminum parts, they can be blued to match (diff chemicals) but I don't think they make a plum for aluminum.

Photos added, sorry if I'm thread-jacking.  In the first pic, the top barrel had a wedge installed in the sight dovetail and was then sanded with a belt sander, it blended very well.  I think the lower barrel may have had an extra coat or two done to it.

The photos look good, maybe they improved their product since I used it in the 80's  .

[lokidog]

OK thanks,
That's OK. MY buddy has a Cabela's Hawken that he made from a kit and he browned his barrel. His came out nice....I don't know tho if I want to really go thru all that just to have a browned barrel now! LOL. Prob is a real PITA to do. I once tried to blue a barrel making a Navy Arms .58 cal Hawken once and what a PITA is was to get that barrel to take that bluing!

I've tried bluing blue as well, but never with it hot.  The blue stuff seems to be done cold and doesn't turn out as well for me.  The plum is just an amazing finish and pretty durable as I'm not the most conscientious gun cleaner sometimes.  The other thing is that if there are aluminum parts, they can be blued to match (diff chemicals) but I don't think they make a plum for aluminum.

Photos added, sorry if I'm thread-jacking.  In the first pic, the top barrel had a wedge installed in the sight dovetail and was then sanded with a belt sander, it blended very well.  I think the lower barrel may have had an extra coat or two done to it.

The photos look good, maybe they improved their product since I used it in the 80's  .

These were both done 10 years ago, but I have a double barrel shotgun that I did in the 80's, and other than the rust caused by me forgetting to clean it last time I used it, the brown is still in good shape.  I think the heated finishes stick better than the cold ones. 

I had an older gentleman, probably in his 80's, that saw the double one time in the field and asked if it was my great grandfather's, I thought that was a great compliment.

[RG]

It is quicker.  The cold finishes require you to rewet it daily for weeks until the rust finish gets really deep.  Usually your hands turn orange and cracked by the time you finish because it keeps getting on you.  I like the end result though.