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04-08-2011, 08:08 AM
#21
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 5,605
Stainless can easily be covered with just about anything you can use on regular steel except real blueing. BlackIce, Cerakote and several other products can take care that issue very easily and they make cleanup even easier too.
04-08-2011, 08:12 AM
#22
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
04-08-2011, 10:06 AM
#24
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
You could ask this cow...
or maybe this bull
or even this doe...
or maybe this buck... who even saw it coming...
But others you are right you can do this samething with a blued barrel or even a browned barrel....
04-08-2011, 10:13 AM
#26
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
Sabot..That's no proof. Those animals could have never seen you or your gun.
I don't even know how game see silver. You all probably don't either. It might be fine, and it might not.
Until I know for sure. I'd rather not use it.
I'm picky that way.
I don't even know how game see silver. You all probably don't either. It might be fine, and it might not.
Until I know for sure. I'd rather not use it.
I'm picky that way.
04-08-2011, 10:33 AM
#27
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
Even out in the open, if the animal had a good view of you the gun would be the least of the give aways... A brightle blued barrel is more reflective than the new stainless barrels.
Silver to a deer is going to appear as a light washed shade of grey. The silver color will be in the wave length area of 450 and that should show up as a shade of grey and then add in brush, branches, sun and shade and the whole thing becomes broken up...
And the bottom picture of the buck saw every thing coming... I was in the open he was 70 yards away - he watched me raise the rifle (slowly) and i am sure he saw the smoke out of the barrel... He never twitched until he fell....
