1899 Savage question
Where the muzzle ends on 1899 Savage octagon rifles blued or left shiny unblued?
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blued. 0 -
Collectors have told me they were not blued, but left bright like vintage Winchester rifles. I just don't know why they were left unblued. 0 -
Every one I have seen was blued. Yes, at least 10 or 12 like that. 0 -
Early octagon barrels with the flat muzzle, no crown? 0 -
capngun,
It could be one of a few ways as I see it from a manufacturing point of view.
Many times I've seen barrels or barreled actions dipped in the blueing solution using a coated wire. I've seen them done with a wooden peg in the muzzle and the wire attached to that. Neither of those would leave the entire muzzle unblued. The only way I could see the entire muzzle not getting blued is if they decided as the last step to re-crown after bluing. In a little more detail to the question, I've seen bluing in the bore, not in the bore and not on the end of the muzzle entirely. All the old Savage 1899/99's I've looked at had a blued muzzle. And, those that I've looked at recently have been shot too much to decide if the bluing got into the bore or not. But, the muzzles were blued.0 -
I just looked at a couple of high condition Savage 1899 rifles, the face of the muzzles were not blued. All Winchester rifles had bright unblued muzzles, as did the early pre- about 1920 carbines. Colt percussion revolvers, even the 2nd generations, have bright unblued muzzles. Why I don't know. 0
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