refinishing a winchester 94

[fgr39]

I picked up a 1977 Winchester 94 recently for fairly cheap. I want to refinish it for a winter project. The bluing on the barrel looks good but the reciever has/had some external rust that has taken off some bluing and left little freckles. Wondering what my best options are as far as removing them. I was thinking of removing the blueing on the reciever and trying to polish them out and then reblue. Mechanically the rifle looks like it was hardly fired. but the reciever needs some lovin. Thanks.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

Tape up the barrel and have the receiver glassbeaded then spray with Gun-kote,Alumi-hydeII or some other spray on gun specific coating.

 

[rcmodel]

I would clean it with 0000 steel wool and oil and leave it be.
Winchester used some sort of mystry metal that won't take bluing on the 94 receiver.

1894 receivers between 2,770,000 and 5,024,957 (1964-1981)
were machined from a graphitic steel casting and will not accept normal
blueing. Serial numbers 3,185,692 to 3,806,499 (1968-1972) were black
chrome plated, and 3,806,500 to 5024,957 (1972-1981) were iron plated before bluing.

jimmyraythomason's suggestion to bead blast & spray paint it is probably the best you could do on your own.

rc

 

[fgr39]

Thanks for the info, already did the 0000 steelwool treatment and I could tell something was really different with the way the reciever was finished. I guess with the way it looks it has character now. I've used Alumi-hyde II before on an 870 and it worked well, but didn't want to go with a painted finsh for this. Oh well.. maybe I could do a silver and make it look stainless?

 

[Zeke/PA]

Follow rcmodel's advice,rub with fine steel wool and oil it well.
A piece of sheepskin well saturated with RIG (grease) is really hard to beat when it comes to wiping off a firearm every now and then.