Picked up my first Smith yesterday - I am a slow starter
Its a 442 with the spent cartridge envelope indicating a date 5/28/2009. I have been looking for a 442 with no internal lock and my local gun/pawn store had one that just came off pawn. Lightly used and seldom shot. Excellent price.
The only issue is the former owner painted a few uneven orange dabs of paint on either side of the rear sight along with putting a small ding exposing the metal on the rib along the front of the barrel. Not bad but I want to take care of this.
I am unsure of the 442 finish and have two questions -
1. What do you recommend to remove the orange paint without removing any of the black finish?
2. Any type of black touch up that I can use to cover up and treat the exposed metal?
Appreciate the coaching and glad to be on board!