Coatings for project gun

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Hey Guys,
Well I might be keeping a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in 270 and I think it will be the perfect gun for a nice project. I was considering selling it as I already have a .284Win and buying something in a .338 size or something, but in case I dont.....
This gun is blued and I want to build a nice mountain rifle out of it. I was thinking of getting the gun powdercoated and then dropping it in a Bansner Lightweight or something similar. Any suggestions on coatings? I know there are several options....just curious to hear what the 'group' says....
I want a no-nonsense gun that can keep up with my Stainless Model 70 and look nice too. Lets hear the suggestions, as well as where I can get such work done and what it will cost me.....
Or should I just be sellin it and buyin somethin bigger since I now own a .284Win and a 30.06 (already have the bases covered)......
 
Wouldn't be too hard to turn that Winnie featherweight into a feather period. There's some awfully light quality stocks out there right now. Top it off with a new Leupy compact:cool: Maybe parkerize the sucker in a colour of your choice.... Sorry, others will have to help out on pricing that kind of stuff...
 
For coatings, you can do:

Gun Kote
Gun Kote Air Cure
Armacoat (Canadian)
Duracoat
Alumahyde II

etc.

Or you could get it reblued or parkerized or blasted and blued.

Personally, I'd just get it reblued as nothing beats blued steel & walnut in my books :)
 
the "coats" are SINFULLY UGLY on a sporting arm, and best left for the mall ninja crowd.

Blueing
Teflon
Powdercoating

thosa should serve you better, and won't look like you just tremcladed your rifle

the gorgeous wood stock that comes with the featherweight deserves some deep dark bluing in my opinion, but that doesn;t do much for harsh climate use.

6.5-06 would be a nice wildcat in a ultralight rifle.
 
Yea I wouldnt want a 'coating' that looks ugly on the rifle. What is the deal with parkerizing? The only reason I dont like blueing is in the mountains I like having a weather-resistant rifle......
What will it cost to have a gun re-blued? Parkerized? Powdercoated? Who should I be talking to about this work? Any pics appreciated on different options....
 
With Arma-Coat you can replicate blueing with a high gloss black and by no means have a Tremclad looking finish unless you give your rifle to uncle Bubba to refinish it for you. Blueing is nice for a classic look but can rust and wear easily, and for parkerizing and you can't retouch it up after you damage it. We use parkerizing as a primer for our coatings. Powder coating can be good but when you do chip it off or scratch it, you cannot easily fix this without sending it back to whoever powdercoated it. And by being ugly I would definately disagree especially when it is professionally done. Here are a few close ups for you to see. Also you can refinish optics with our coating too.The trigger is coated high gloss black on the 1911, also the backstrap, hammer, and beavertail are also high gloss, and the reciever and slide are matte black

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Now, I've been wondering about powdercoating for a while because I have a bubba'd Kar98k(and no, I didn't butcher it!) with a bbl that's pitted but has a shiney bore and good rifling.
As such I'd probably get the action blued to keep my options open in the future but have the bbl powder coated to as close a colour to the bluing, thereby cleaning up the messiness.
It would also make it worth restocking before I replace the barrel at some point in the future.
Out of interest, is there any danger that powder will get inside the bore or are there precautions taken to prevent this?
 
I like my gun-koted rifle. Infact, I take exception to the "coating is ugly statement :p so much so, that I will post pictures of it in a few hours. Guncote is what the USMC are using (The testing specs are on the guncote web page). You can get it in a lot of different colors from "silver" or mat-silver (to look like stainless) to purple, if you so desire to be the laughing stock among your hunting group.;)

back later with pics
 
My thoughts on rifle finishes:

Teflon is for frying pans
Powder Coating is for lawn furniture
Hot blueing is for safe queens
Parkerizing is for milsurps

Make my bbls and actions stainless, and if I just have to use a blued action, there is only one way I'll go...

If you want a NO BS finish that is impervious to anything you can throw at it, super durable (moreso than the steel action itself), looks great, and won't change tolerances noticebly (much less than Teflon or Powercoating)......

Electroless Nickel... this rifle has seen hell and back a bunch of times, and will pass for new (the acton anyhow).

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Here is another that has had the action Electroless Nickel plated (the other is the rifle in the above picture)

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Very noice rifles .280, and I understand the propensity for stainless. That electroless stuff seems nice. What's it cost?

Here's my 6.5x55 "project" or bubba, or whatever you want to call it. (It was already aftermarket when I bought it, so I guess I didn't do the bubba:p :
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That's called "tactical grey" gun kote. I like it, it seems very durable, and it's between $130-$160, to get someone else to do it for you.

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I paid ~ $125/action to have them Nickeled (includng the entire bolt diassembled and done in and out, as well as the safety lever).

In all honestly.... I'd have paid double that easily... Nickel is the Schitt!

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Nickel is very nice...BUT, try to find someone that will do it is another story. I have been checking around now for months and can't find anyone to do the plating on a rifle.
 
280,
That looks like about the best choice for a nice project. I'm a big stainless fan, and that looks to be about the closest thing for what I would want....where did you get it done?
 
harv3589 said:
Nickel is very nice...BUT, try to find someone that will do it is another story. I have been checking around now for months and can't find anyone to do the plating on a rifle.
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I know what you mean. I asked Gunsmoke FX (they do nickel on pistols) and they told me that nobody has a tank big enough to do a rifle. If I only wanted to do the action, that probably would have worked. Something to think about if/when I want to rebarrel.
 
OK, so you spent all that hard earned money to get your rifle tremcladded, err "coated" , to make it Sniperriffic and invisible....

AND YOU LEFT THE BRIGHT SHINNY GOLD RING?

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