I have seen some sleeved guns that were originally Damascus guns but were sleeved with modern steel barrels and then rust blued over the new barrels and given a brown damascus finish on the original Damascus block.

This McCririck is one that held my fancy but overwhelmed my wallet. I liked this gun for reasons other than the barrel bluing/browning, and I keep some pictures so I could watch for it again, and as a reference of interest for me.

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Anyway, I discovered I own a gun with such barrels. However, after sleeving, they were polished and rust blued over their entire lengths, so the Damascus did not become obvious until after they had become a bit worn by years of use in the field.

I am going to reblue them as they were when I got them, but I was wondering how was the mixed media finish on that McCririck actually accomplished. Does anyone know or have a good guess?

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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)
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