Hard Chrome for Colt

[CraigC]

If it's DAO, why would you need to decock?

 

[ColtPythonElite]

The gun is not DAO. He was talking about making it DAO if and when the hammer is bobbed.

 

[Guillermo]

I guess I missed where the OP mentioned that the gun was DAO.

Just warning that a bobbed gun should be DAO. To not do so does not allow the gun to be safely decocked.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I guess I missed where the OP mentioned that the gun was DAO.

No, you didn't....I missed putting the not in my last reply and have now edited it.

 

[CraigC]

if you bob the hammer, render the weapon DAO.

I must've misunderstood this sentence. Should've been a comma in there.

 

[Guillermo]

BTW

confession

I have owned and would own again a non DAO bobbed revolver. I just didn't shoot it single action.

This is one of those "do as I say" things.

All those guys that had Fitz chop up their duns did not DAO them. It is called "disipline"

 

[Prosser]

I went brushed chrome on my kimber Custom II after the black finish went south:



This was done by Jack Huntington Advanced Gunsmithing.
What it looked like before it rusted:

 

[motorcycle-charlie]

I'll skin that dick with a Speed scabbard
aaaa.....what?

 

[Krusty]

saemetric,
That Python is nice!!!

 

[CCW1911]

Hard chrome is a great finish for handguns. It is harder than the metal underneath, is more rust resistant than blue, holster wear will just polish it won't remove the finish. The hard chromed parts will not wear nearly as quickly as unplated. Having said all that I'm not a big fan of hard chrome on revolvers. The reason is the cylinder flutes are much harder to clean and look bad after just a few rounds. For that reason I like nickel better for revolvers, it's much slicker and easy to clean up.

Edit to add I'm talking about the satin look hard chrome, I imagine the high polish hard chrome some shops do would act about like nickel. Also I've never seen hard chrome turn blue in the about 40 years I've been building guns and having them hard chromed mostly by Metaloy.

 

[CraigC]

The reason is the cylinder flutes are much harder to clean and look bad after just a few rounds.

That's odd because I've found it far easier to clean than any other finish. Stuff usually just wipes off.