How spendy would it be to have a barrel and action Parkerized? In ratio to blued?

Durability compared to plain old bluing? and then matte bead blasting?

If a new barrel is coming in chromemoly, can it be Parkerized without being blued?

clueless in oregon...at least on this subject...

thanks for the responses!

cheers
seafire

You can park an FN-FAL for $150.00 so it should be less expensive for a simple bolt gun.

I think it would look industrial, very cool. Durability would be more, I think, due to the hardness of the park and its ability to soak up oil from its porousness. The matte effect is less reflective.

I love the way it looks on my Mossy 590A1 and my FAL's.

Never tried it but I remember a thread a while back where it was said that if you parkerize a gun and then drop it in a hot blue tank, you get a cool looking black finish that is hell-for-tough. I would think just dropping it in a hot blue tank after the parkerizing shouldn't cost a great deal of additional money.

If both tanks are already hot, probably not much more...

Harry,
we need to talk about that double finish!

jeffe