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I still think it looks good.
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I still think it looks good.
Thanks. I bought it online over 15 years ago. The owner decided to get into CAS and wanted his guns to look "authentic" and decided to antique them. He took this nice old Winchester, hit all the metal with Naval Jelly, which left it mostly bare metal with some blotchy blueing left. Then he sanded the stocks, sprayed them with black paint and sanded them again so they looked "oil soaked". It was the ugliest Winchester I've ever seen, but that's why I got it so cheap.
He was all proud but when he went to his first match he was told he couldn't use it because it's a .30-30, not a pistol caliber. Disgusted, he posted it online very cheap.
I didn't want to dump a lot of money into it so I asked Karl Sokol to bead blast and parkerize it. I gave him a set of presentation grade wood a friend picked up for me at the auction when the Winchester plant closed. He initially refused, but finally agreed as long as I never told anyone he did it. But after it was done and he saw what it looked like, he said it was OK if people knew. While he had it apart he smoothed out the trigger, too.