586 takes on ugly stick...and looses. A rescue story.

[Protocall_Design]

If you do a heavy bead blast and blue, it will cover up a lot of those pits and make it tolerable to look at. Still should work fine as is.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Clean, shoot, enjoy.

Repeat.

Looking forward to the range report. If it's good, see above.

That is all.

Bob

 

[ladder13]

A belt sander will fix that right up.

 

[MOONDAWG]

Ditto on leaving the patina as is and just shoot and enjoy!

 

[Mrnurse]

Fords....for 300.00 BUCKS they can work Magic, or just fine blast it flat and park it.

 

[notsofast]

Try it out. Clean up, brush bore and chambers, oil up and shoot. Get the mechanicals right before you pay for cosmetic surgery

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Probably would only invest my time and some lubricant and cleaning products and be proud of it. You are not likely to win any beauty contests, but if the gun is technically sound, putting 357 rounds on target is nothing to sneeze at. If you restore or refinish, it will be labor of love, you will not likely get your money back. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Glad that it will be maintained better in the future.

 

[toddimusnimski]

Clean her, lube her, shoot her. Name her Katrina because she looks like a survivor.

Katrina Patina! I kinda like it...

 

[Chief Wiggums]

it has "literally" driven nails

 

[Justin T]

Good choice on bringing that home. I would have too. Parkerize it!

 

[Practical]

What caused the finish lost? I f it was a fire and high heat it might not be metalurgically sound. Er

 

[Dogbone44Spl]

Send it to Robars. They have several options to make it better,

 

[series guy]

I would have jumped on that one too. Perfect candidate for hard chrome from APW.

 

[EdinDenver]

0000 Steal Wool and about 10 coats of Brownell's Oxpho Blue to get the rust out and darken it up a bit. Put a thin coat of Rem Oil or Break Free on it and it's the perfect truck gun. Did that with an import Model 19 and it works just fine.

 

[18DAI]

I'd get that 586 done in a matte bead blast blue, or parkerize it. Then I'd shoot the snot out of it.

Nice sixgun. Good luck! Regards 18DAI

 

[Grayfox]

Clean it up, throw some cold blue in its general direction, replace those God awful grips and shoot it till the cows come home.

 

[Jtown]

Clean it, leave it, shoot it.
Walt

 

[Bob L]

I would have grabbed that in a minute. Great find and I would just clean then oil it and have fun at the range. Congrats!

 

[JohnRippert]

Bead blast and hard chrome would be my choice.

 

[kraynky]

I'm in with the soak it a few days in Kroil/Ed's Red and shoot it bunch. The aged magna grips sounds good too. Congratulations! And I'm jealous!