Question about blueing

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I have a question about bluing a gun and here it is. This may sound as a dumb question. Can a gun be any other color and be considered blued? The reason I ask is my grandfather has an single barrel twelve gauge shotgun that was given to him by a friend and all the metal on it is hunter orange it has dulled a little over time but the guy swears it is blued. My next thought on it is I think it would make a good truck/bedside gun what do you all think.
 
Hot bluing comes out of the tank some shade of blue, black, or purple.
But not hunter orange.

A hunter orange gun is either really really rusty, or spray painted.

rc
 
By "hunter orange" do you mean Dayglo high visibility safety orange? That would be paint. If it's more of a brownish fuzzy orange that would be rust.
 
As RC said, bluing can create blue, black or purple. From beautiful electric blues to blacks so deep they are purple, and everything in between. Bright orange would be a paint of some kind.
 
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thanks guys for clearing that up for me but nobody has said anything about the bright orange being a good color on it for like a bedside gun or truck gun
 
horsemen61 said:
thanks guys for clearing that up for me but nobody has said anything about the bright orange being a good color on it for like a bedside gun or truck gun
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If you frequently mis-place things and have a bad time finding them, I suppose the bright orange might be kind of nice.

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I have blued more than one gun with" plum brown " blue. It is indeed just different chemicals that turn the rust brown instead of blue/black. If memory serves it's made by Birchwood Casey.

I'm sure some of us remember the old " Brown Bess Muskets " from the revolutionary war. I'm pretty sure the color of the metal was cause for the name.
 
As long as there is no chipping or rust there is nothing wrong with the gun as-is. The only issue is if you can take it out to the range without a paper bag over your head ;)

But seriously, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and is probably the least important requirement for a truck/bedside gun. If it functions and you are happy with it, why change it?
 
is there some way to get a specific shade? A purple 'blued' barrel/action and a white stock would be a sharp looking weapon. (I like purple, #Wannafightaboutit?)
 
nobody has said anything about the bright orange being a good color on it for like a bedside gun or truck gun
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My personal opinion is, it would not be.

Law enforcement often use orange shotguns to identify less-lethal ammo used in them, like bean bags.

http://www.opticsplanet.net/hogue-l...hotgun-stock-for-the-remington-870-08740.html

Air-soft guns & toy guns now must have safety orange muzzle I.D. to show they are not real firearms.

You might run into a crook who thinks he knows all that, and he would think you were defending yourself with a "less-lethal" or air-soft gun of some sort?

rc
 
In case of a home defense situation, the perp may not believe it is a real gun and force him to use it.
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If you are pointing a gun at an attacker but they don't believe it it real and continue advancing toward you, wouldn't that just reinforce the need to use deadly force? I am sorry, but any perp who knows a house is occupied and breaks in anyway must be assumed to mean the owner harm. Wether you are armed with a gun, baseball bat, or fuzzy bunny slippers, if a perp knows you are there and continues toward you, how can you assume the don't mean you harm?

I could see and issue with the gun being mistaken for airsoft or a toy, but people buy pink, blue, and whatever color ARs all the time. If the gun is properly secured when not in horsemen61's posession, is there really a big enough risk to justify refinishing it?
 
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