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They are wonderfully maintenance free "ai" dailey cleaning or at least a wipe but, are you all aware they shine like a prism in the sun. Camo everything and then carry a lite saber on a 2 mile stalk in the open? Maybe it's only me but it doesn't make much sense to advertise your presences to every critter on earth so you don't have to clean your rifle every now and then. I tend to use more than enough gun | ||
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I've never used it but they make removable tape and sleeves that are camoflaged that can "easily be removed"...I think that they may even make some "easy off paint." Given, I don't now how well they work but they would be a solution. I love my stainless steel Ruger MkII M77. Waterrat, There's a chance I may be living in your area next year... NRA Life Member | |||
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waterrat, Except for the ones I consider not yet finished, my stainless rifles don't shine, because I have had them bead blasted to a matt finish, or black T finished. I agree with you in that I don't like carrying around a shiney rifle for serious hunting, and I think it's worth the trouble to do something about it. Some of my favorite rifles have regular steel receivers and stainless barrels. The receiver and rings are black t, and the barrel bead blasted. I dislike rust more than shine, and we have plenty of salt water around here. KB ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ | |||
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So far I haven't noticed if moose are bothered by the shiny stainless surface of my rifle, so I am not certain if it's a problem. Besides, moose spot me before they see the rifle, and I am certain that that as long as the barrel is pointed at them they can't see it. As Medium said, you can use one of numerous tape colors designed to take care of the problem. There are also paints designed to cover stainless steel rifles. I have seen several, from matte black to OD green. All you have to do is to remove the stock, remove any oil and grease from the barrel and receiver, and then spray it on and let it dry overnight in a warm place. | |||
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You can get flat black spray paint for a dollar or two at walmart, easily removed with carb or brake cleaner, if it bothers you. I haven't noticed any animals flinching away from it yet. For what its worth I'm not too worries bout cammo either. Any good earthy tone, tan, brown, dark green or even a dirty pair of blue jeans has proven very effective. One of my favorite combinations has been a brown pair of carhart pants and a brown green plaid quilted flannel shirt. Most cammo patterns are to busy and dark anyway, some guys all dressed up in "realtree" or other garden variety camo generally looks like a dark man shaped blob from a distance anyway. Our alaskan game doesn't seem quite as quick to shy away as a midwest whitetail. | |||
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Ya ,,Me ,I,de like a stainless synthetic 500 3" Nitro Express side by side double.......But i would want it painted green............But if I went to a DRSS shoot with it I,m sure I would be 1 banished from the relm and 2 , shot.........I like brown barbaque paint......Did you know you can kind of sort of blue stainless barrels....With a home blueing too.. .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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I have to say I'm a fan of stainless when I'm in a wet area. I think dulling the finish by bead blasting or light sanding will solve any problems. I'd say that the polish is the problem and not the lack of bluing. I've seen alot of high polish blued rifles shine in the sun at a distance. DRSS NRA life AK Master Guide 124 | |||
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If you are close enough to an animal that a stainless rifle will spook it...that animal should be in shooting range...and therefore dead! ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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All my stainless rifles are Ruger's with the dull matte finish. I can't recall ever seeing them "flash", but have certainly seen highly polished blued rifles "flashing" in the sun.  | |||
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Years of using Stainless has taught me that teflon is the answer to the light saber problem.Say what you will but hunting in the rain of the NW and Alaska, durable stocks and stainless are the only way to fly. | |||
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waterrat, are you trying to imply that the sun shines during hunting season in Alaska? <grin> Seriously, to me stainless is the only way to go. Have rusted up several blued rifles over the years, its just too much more work to keep them dry and oiled in an ever wet environment. Havent had an animal spot my stainless barells yet. Stainless all the way for me. | |||
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Having the Black T, Black Ice, or Cerakote coatings put on will take care of any rust issues on blued rifles. Personally I don't like stainless rifles, there's just something about a nice blued or matte finished barrel that appeals to me. "We band of 45-70'ers" | |||
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Stainless guns defintely have there place, I do love a chrome moly action and a stainless barrel though !! | |||
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