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A project of mine this winter will be to give this Flues a new oil stock finish. This gun will be a shooter and I hope to spend a lot of time with it in grouse/woodcock covers and cottontail thickets next season. I'm wondering what to do with the colour case hardened, but worn, receiver? I'm not interested in having it professionally re-done, so what I'm really asking is: Leave it alone? Polish it? Other suggestions? Thanks! 
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Cold blue it. Easy, cheap and effective.
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If a gun has visible rust, Id remove it with some 000 steelwool and oil. Other than that, leave it be or have it professionally recasehardened. No polishing, lest you devalue it and make it look like getto blaster. JMO
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If you will be using it as a shooter, clean it (wd-40 and 000 steel wool, lightly oil (call me odd, but I like Singer Sewing Machine oil) it and use it. Enjoy
Mike
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Coldblue would be good if it will be sold in a trailerpark.
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Coldblue would be good if it will be sold in a trailerpark. LOL! I had actually considered cold blue, but was told that previously colour case hardened steel is not likely to accept blueing very well. I'm curious; any truth to this? (In reality, I doubt I will cold blue. I've never found cold blues durable and its the part of the gun that gets the most handling wear.
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Coldblue would be good if it will be sold in a trailerpark. LOL! I had actually considered cold blue, but was told that previously colour case hardened steel is not likely to accept blueing very well. I'm curious; any truth to this? (In reality, I doubt I will cold blue. I've never found cold blues durable and its the part of the gun that gets the most handling wear. It will most likely work, if its just a shooter it will protect it from rust and can always be removed should you want to upgrade it. Cold bluing has its place and old shooters is one of them.
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Coldblue would be good if it will be sold in a trailerpark. Funny but snobbish.
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Coldblue would be good if it will be sold in a trailerpark. Funny but snobbish. I'd say more ugly than snobbish, but de gustibus... JC 
"...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance."ť Charles Darwin
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Coldblue would be good if it will be sold in a trailerpark. Funny but snobbish. Yeah, for sure. Color me snobbish on this. It also will devalue the gun if about any of the members here were the prospective buyer. Color them snobbish too.  But seriously, casehardened steel has a better corrosion resistance than soft steel. I would say it's close to a blued finish in its resistance. Cold blue, if you mean the instant types, is generally a copper sulfate (or sulfide, I can't recall) solution and many solutions are more prone to initiate and propogate rust than bare casehardened steel, in my experiences.
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