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I do not believe these McCririck & Sons barrels were originally finished with blacked (rust blued) tubes and a browned Damascus breech section.

Rather, it appears we are seeing two different shades of plum brown, likely due to differences in the composition or alloys of the tubes and the Damascus breech section.

Actually, if you have good color perception and look closely, there are two more additional shades of plum color on the two sections of the rib. So that is four slightly different colors on one barrel set, caused by four different alloys, along with changes due to aging and oxidation over time.

It might be possible to do a two-tone browning/blacking job by first blacking, and then browning and etching only the Damascus breech section after masking the blacked (rust blued) part. But that would take some real skill and talent to pull off.


I don't think Minnesota is nearly far enough north. The Nutty Professor really ought to consider homesteading in Arctic Northern Canada, or maybe the future 51st State of Greenland.

Meanwhile, because the world is not melting and the climate hasn't actually changed to any meaningful or existential extent, I will need to once again put a tarp over a large Japanese Weeping Cherry Tree that is now in full bloom. Why? Because in about 9 out of 10 years, we get sub-freezing temperatures soon after it blooms. Last year, the so-called "hottest year on record", the flowering tree got covered with over an inch of snow right after I covered it. This Monday night, the low is predicted to be 25°F and then 23°F on Tuesday night.

Hey, looky here! The hottest day on record for Iowa was 91 years ago... Older Democrats may need to use their bifocals to see the numbers. And they will also need to remove their blindfolds. But that will never happen.