Given a Trooper MK3 and the bluing is shot along with some pitting...Duracoat?

[southlak9cop]

The bluing is shot and there is pitting along the exterior of the barrel and on the cylinder. I am not worried about resale value or anything like that. I just want to get it looking decent and I have been looking into the Duracoat products, specifically, the Durabake product. Probably in the parker or matte black finish. I was able to smooth out the pitting with a fine sanding wheel on my Dremel tool, and from there have gone on to remove the rest of the finish along with polishing up everything with a stainless wire wheel. This revolver will not get much range time, and for the most part will just sit in my gun safe, so the finish doesn't have to be able to take a whole heck of a lot of beating.

Thanks for advice in advance.

 

[Majic]

If you removed the finish and looking into an aftermarket finish why make it a safe queen and not the shooter that it is? There are many fine Trooper MkIIIs on the market that make excellent safe queens.

 

[Powderman]

Duracoat for that Colt? Oh, HECK no!!!!!

For the amount of money and prep time you will have to spend, you'll come out ahead to send the gun to a reputable gunsmith to have it re-blued. You could send it back to Colt, or to another company such as Accurate Plating and Weaponry, Robar Industries, Cylinder and Slide, or someone of like caliber.

Get a good high polish blue on that revolver. You'll never regret it!