Thread: Winchester 30/30

its a hunting rifle...not a safe queen or a range Barbie.....paint it and be done with it.... hammerite is awesome stuff.... harder than hobs of hell and looks good,sort of like grannies meat dish.....get your minds out of gutter....
of take it to gunsmith and get it reblued properly IF THEY SAY THATS CORRECT....

You have a 'solid black finish with freckling' - and that's straight off the internet.

The originals had that too, you just got a lot of 'freckling' - you lucky bastard

Never seen a 'case hardened' barrel, or even a pretend 'cased' finish on a barrel, or even a B/A reciever come to that - but those slab sided actions often got 'tarted up' with them - so I expect it might be cosmetic.

And 'johnduxbury' might have got it right - might be nickel steel which can make it difficult to apply a quick 'finish'.