I built a T/C hawkins kit in the mid 70's. It was a lot of work but I had fun doing it. I blued it my self and was happy with the way it turned out. then summer came and off to the range I went. Was a nice experince shooting a rifle I assembled my self. I saw a browned gun latter and I liked it much better than the blued so I took it down to bare metal and browned it. I like the brown much better.

Al