RE: teflon coat good or bad?
I too have been thinking of coating the action and barrel, but have not researched it extensively. I think the reason noone has really experimented with it is because of that wonderful thing called stainless steel. They probably figured if someone wants a hardy rifle, they will spend the money on a ss rifle. The only thing that I can think that even resembles a protective finish would be Ruger's target grey coating on their Super Redhawk. That has to be some sort of a protective coating.