Blued vs Stainless

[Mr VJP]

See, that's the thing.  A good stainless/synthetic like a Kimber Montana and after the kind of abuse mentioned above, just dry it off with a rag and run the bore snake through it and it's like new with no worries for the rest of the week of hunting.

 

Take it home, wipe it down with an oil cloth, clean the bore and action, then put it away till next season.  Surely all can see how much less work that is.

 

[Mr VJP]

Kimber Montana 7mm-08

 

[BizCT]

This was a pretty gun my Dads Dad bought new in 1967. My Dad sold it last year. These pics were taken before it was sold and 45+ years of wear and tear. 300 weatherby mag custom mark V deluxe. To buy it new in 1967, my gramps traded in 3 weatherby mark v deluxes and had to add cash.

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Edited March 3, 2015 by Biz-R-OWorld

[wildcat junkie]

Biz...I am sure that the quality bluing job on your Weatherbys helped a lot also...

 

I have had a few  cheap firearms over the years, and cheap polishing/bluing jobs rust MUCH more easily than quality firearms... I hunted rabbits quite a bit over the years with a New England Arms single shot .410. It killed bunny rabbits just fine, but the damn thing rusted if I SNEEZED on it..

The sandblasted bluing on M870 Express pumps is bad about rust.

[nyantler]

I like traditional.. so stainless is not for me... I don't own any stainless weapons... I just never warmed up to the look. Pretty much the same with synthetic stocks... nothing like the look of real wood IMO.

[Dinsdale]

Blued vs stainless????

 

Neither.

 

Plasma Nitrited.

 

Non glare black finish, heat treated hard as nails exterior (its not a coating,the finish is actually the steel of the barrel modified by heating the barrel in a vacuum and introducing nitrogen and a little argon or hydrogen), excellent weather and wear resistant. 

 

 

 

I own a little of everything....

 

Hot blued,rust blued,color cased,stainless, Ilaflon,plasma nitrated, a chemical coating similar to Cerakote,QPQ,Duracoat, Parkerized.......

 

Wood, from birch to some pretty nice Turkish; several types of tupperware stocks, hand layed, chopped glass/bedding block......

 

I like em' all....

[Mr VJP]

I own rifles with nice wood stocks and nice blued steel also, but I've never had a desire to own a fancy rifle.  The rifle hunting conditions I see most often tend to demand a tool that will function perfectly under adverse conditions.  So I prefer an arm built to be purpose oriented.

 

Now, when it comes to shotguns, I'm the exact opposite.  I love fancy shotguns like a Browning Midas Grade Superposed, B. Rizzini, J.P. Sauer, or a Merkel double.  When hunting pheasant in a cut cornfield on a sunny 40 degree day, I don't have to worry about it much.  I also like walnut and blued steel in a Grouse gun, but nothing fancy, as the woods demand more from it's exterior.

 

I once looked at a Ruger Red Label in stainless synthetic for waterfowl in salt water areas, but really hated the way the gun looked and decided to stick with the full camo Mossberg 835 for that job.

 

To me, the hunting conditions dictate the firearm I use.

 

[thphm]

 

Here you go, Top glass beaded,black hot blue, H&S Syn. stock. Middle gloss blued wood gloss stock, Bottom Stainless Steel glass beaded from the factory and factory Syn. Sako stock.

[Lawdwaz]

 The rifle hunting conditions I see most often tend to demand a tool that will function perfectly under adverse conditions.  So I prefer an arm built to be purpose oriented.

 

 

Things don't look to adverse in the picture you posted above with your Kimber.  Just a fluke day or was a big storm headed your way?.....................................

 

A nice wood stocked blued beauty would have been the cats azz that day I'd bet.

 

Don't get too worked up, I sure enjoy those blue bird days too and I've been known to kill from a hut.  Not often, just twice I think. 

 

Even this year........

 

[Lawdwaz]

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Here you go, Top glass beaded,black hot blue, H&S Syn. stock. Middle gloss blued wood gloss stock, Bottom Stainless Steel glass beaded from the factory and factory Syn. Sako stock.

 

Center gun is a lefty I see, what ya got there?

[Mr VJP]

The adverse condition in that place is the climb up the mountain to the top.  That light weight rifle is welcome when climbing.  The weather did turn to heavy rain in the late afternoon that day.  The photo was taken in the lunch shack.

 

[Mr VJP]

Center gun is a lefty I see, what ya got there?

 

Your's is a lefty also?

[Pygmy]

Yeah, lawdwaz is handicapped...

 

All his rifles have the bolts on the wrong side.

[wildcat junkie]

Center gun is a lefty I see, what ya got there?

OMG a "liberal" rifle.

 

Is that for catch & release hunting?

[Lawdwaz]

OMG a "liberal" rifle.

 

Is that for catch & release hunting?

 

Mostly "catch", I haven't mastered the "release" yet.

 

[Lawdwaz]

Yeah, lawdwaz is handicapped...

 

All his rifles have the bolts on the wrong side.

 

I'd say more monkeyed up than handicapped.

 

I do have a couple CF righty bolts too; a Rem 722 257 Roberts, Sako 22-250 heavy barrel and my son's Tikka 223.  I can (and I know you're NOT surprised) go both ways, easily.  

[Mr VJP]

I'd imagine a "liberal" rifle would have micro stamping and shoot wax bullets!

[wildcat junkie]

 I can (and I know you're NOT surprised) go both ways, easily.

Uh-oh, that's going to rile up the "conservatives"!

 

1st you show a picture of a liberal rifle & now you come out of the closet?  

 

You're a brave soul my friend!

Edited March 3, 2015 by wildcat junkie

[Pygmy]

You have a 722, Larry ?

 

Cool...My first centerfire was a 722 , in .222 rem.

 

I bought it used for $60  and sold it 40 years later for $600...

 

That's about the only gun I ever made any profit on, except maybe the minty Swedish Mauser that I bought for $100 and sold a few years later for $300.

[wildcat junkie]

You have a 722, Larry ?

 

Cool...My first centerfire was a 722 , in .222 rem.

 

I bought it used for $60  and sold it 40 years later for $600...

 

That's about the only gun I ever made any profit on, except maybe the minty Swedish Mauser that I bought for $100 and sold a few years later for $300.

I've been lusting after a mint Swedish Mauser take-off barrel to screw into my small ring, small shank 1934 Mexican Mauser 98 action.

 

 

 

I like making high quality/accurate custom rifles W/military barrels. I've heard that the accuracy of the 6.5 X 55 Swedish Mausers can be legendary. 

 

Unfortunately, all I can find are the 19" versions.That's way too short to even consider.

 

I want to create something along the lines of this, but W/O sights..

 

 

 

 

 

Look closely @ the picture below & you will find that it is indeed a Mexican Swede. That is, a Mexican Mauser action W/a turned, cut & crowned Swedish Mauser military barrel.

Edited March 3, 2015 by wildcat junkie