Picked up a 2 inch 66-5 round butt in a FTF yesterday, it'd been stored in it's holster next to a washing machine in the basement of the previous owner's home. (with it were a 1300 Winchester and a 1917 Enfield that'd been sporterized, and both were nasty as well)
Heavy pitting along the sides of the barrel, minor pitting on the frame, itself, and one spot on the cylinder that's got some pitting.
Not sure that the barrel will clean up, and wondering which is the best way to go to refinish this thing.
BTW, the bore and cylinder bores are very nice, almost in unfired state, and the 'guts' are perfect...just really nasty to look at, function is not affected.
Paint?
Sandblast and blue?
Sandblast and Parkerize?
Who can do the work well, fast and reasonable?
Thanks in advance!

if it's a 66 it's stainless right? I wouldn't try to paint, parkerize, or blue stainless. I suppose all are possible, but once cleaned up, the risk of rust is much less if you start treating the gun right. There are some neat aftermarket finishes like NP3. Honestly though, I assume you got her cheap -- so maybe hit it with a buffing wheel and flitz, then shoot the bejesus out of it and be happy.

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Joshua Brown(Town)

There's a certain freedom to owning an ugly *** gun. Shoot the heck out of it and enjoy it.

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but this piece is a blued 19-5. Sorry for the confusion!
Shooting this one is like riding a Jap bike. It's a lot of fun, but you sure don't want your friends to see you doin' it!!!
And, yes, I got into it for "right". WAY under $200.00. Can afford a bit to put a decent finish on the thing.

well since she's cheap, I say if the finish really bothers you, deblue it, clean it up and use the brownells bake on finish gun kote
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then shoot the **** out of it and enjoy!

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Joshua Brown(Town)

Okay, after all the confusion, I took the Model 19 to a gunsmith in Pocatello, told him to throw 'er into the beadblast, and then dunk it in the blue tank. Here's what I got.
He did a very nice job on it. Inside the frame was left alone, it was dismantled, and the sideplate reinstalled, as well as the screws, so the finish was even on all the parts. He plugged the barrel, forcing cone, and cylinder ends before blasting, so they're original surfaces inside.
It's still as smooth as you'd expect a 19 to be, nice crisp trigger, but man oh man is this little Mother LOUD!!! It likes the 125 gr. Remington HP's with 2400, and has a sheet of flame out the front about three feet long. If I don't hit 'em with it, it'll blind and deafen them long enough for me to pop 'em in the forehead with it!!!!

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DW - I LIKE IT!
Since you didn't have much going into it, it makes a nice carry gun and something you don't have to worry about.
If you don't mind me asking, how much did your gunsmith charge you?

Mike did several pieces for me in the same batch, and I got a 'lump sum' price for the lot, but if I recall correctly, it was somewhere around a hundred bucks or so, and I did the disassembly, and reassembly on the piece as part of the price. I also worked the majority of the pits out of the barrel and frame, which took some of the time out of his work estimate. As I recall, he mentioned that if he did all the work, disassembling, polishing, finishing, and reassembling was about two hundred, so it was advantageous for me to do some of the work.
I have to be honest and say that all I've seen of his polishing work is on long arms, no handguns, but he does a lot of hand polishing, letters are not dragged out with a buffing wheel, corners are sharp and straight, flats are flat and rounds are round.
Gila River Gun Works | Michael Scherz, Gunmaker | Phone: 208-241-2718 | email: [email protected]
His name is Mike Scherz, one helluva nice guy, and the work that I've taken to him was done reasonably, done right, with no reworks yet, and delivered when promised, and in a decent amount of time. Good man to know.