The answer is yes, but how I don't really know how. I think the Remington 700s in .17 are all stainless, even though they end up with the black finish like the rest of the BDLs.
What I'd love to know is how Ruger get the grey finish on their 77 VT model
Posts: 121 | Location: Southern Australia | Registered: 13 December 2000
Yes stainless can be blued. Brownells sell bluing salts specially formulated for stainless.
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Posts: 8350 | Location: Jennings Louisiana, Arkansas by way of Alabama by way of South Carloina by way of County Antrim Irland by way of Lanarkshire Scotland. | Registered: 02 November 2001
I like the Ruger matte stainless steel finish also. Very attractive not too flashy.
After much research and questioning, I have determined it is a glass bead blast/peen and a dunk in the blue tank- same chemicals they use for standard chrome moly blue...
Cheap and easy.
Posts: 360 | Location: PA | Registered: 29 September 2001
I have seen that stainless bluing done with the Brownells salts. Pardon me for saying...it aint blue. Not even close. Looks like black paint. I was not impressed at all.
Posts: 1268 | Location: Newell, SD, USA | Registered: 07 December 2001
