Every once in a while I have folks ask about how the guns

Gary Reeder
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Thursday, August 31, 2023, 14:13 (1066 days ago)

are worked on and such so I thought I would show a couple of pics of a Big Horn Hunter for one of the Misfits. This gun started life on a Marlin 1894 in decent shape. We put a new 16½" barrel on it, slicked up the insides, high polished the outsides and chambered the barrel to 44 Magnum. We fit new ghost ring sights to the gun. We widened up the loop a bit for use with gloved hands. We installed a Decelerator pad on it to keep the recoil down. We high polished the gun and engraved the normal Big Horn Hunter critters on it plus engraved his name on the bolt.
In the pictures I still have a bit of engraving to do on it and then it will be ready to do the deluxe Black Chromex finish on it this weekend. The finish is so high polished that it is picking up reflections of anything around it, so ignore them.
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Just like a mirror

475BISLEY480
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Thursday, August 31, 2023, 17:05 (1066 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

What technique do you use. Wet sanding? Or ?

the part is first put in a bead blaster with glass beads

Gary Reeder
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Friday, September 01, 2023, 10:43 (1066 days ago) @ 475BISLEY480

the texture of baby powder. Then it is buffed down with varying texture of polish on polishing wheels.
The Vapor Honing is done with the glass beads with the baby powder texture. That is why it is called Vapor Honing as the piece is hit with not much more than a vapor. That gives it the soft satin finish.

That interests me

475BISLEY480
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Friday, September 01, 2023, 14:34 (1065 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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