Originally Posted by jmace57

OK - as promised.

Here was a sad Model 15-3 I bought from a sheriff's sale for $75. Filthy inside. Outside looked like someone had sandpapered it with a heavy grit to clean up.





I cleaned it up internally, and it performed great with a smooth action. I rust blued it. Pretty mottled appearance.



I did a rust blue over the weekend. I did 5 rounds of rust-boil-card. The barrel is still a tiny bit mottled. If I did it over again, I would do 6-8 rounds. It would have gotten darker. I still need to do some work on hammer and trigger to make them look better.