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you can recolor an action at the Brownells prescribed 1450F, but you run a much higher risk of warpage, and I mean much higher!

To what temp do you recommend heating? If one goes much below this 1450°F they will drop out of the critical temperature range of the steel & hardening will not take place. This would of course reduce the possibility of warpage, but would also leave the action in a near annealed state. I personally would not want to give up that hard skin on one of my guns, even for perfect colors. When steel is quenched "Suddenly" from a point above it's critical temp, there will "Always" be a risk of warpage. So far I have not been willing to take that risk, so my guns remain un-re-colored.

Miller/TN
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