Good riddance to brass

[gazz]

Hi.
Each time I look at all that brass on my T.C. I feel quite ill.
However, I have just discovered Birchwood Casey Brass Black... a big thumbs up! It gives the yellow stuff a beautiful dark mottled appearance, a bit like case hardened iron. It may wear a bit thin in time but should be easy to touch up.
Cheers ,
gazz.

[roundball]

Hi.
Each time I look at all that brass on my T.C. I feel quite ill.

It's always interesting the different perspectives we have on things.
I'm just the opposite...have a number of TC Hawkens that I shoot/hunt year round and keep them all in showroom ready condition...if I can't see my teeth in the brass I feel like I'm slacking off or something...and it certainly doesn't bother deer at all  :-)

[lakota]

Brass is why I switched over to a Renegade. All blued hardware. Nice, plain and simple!

[Swamp Yankee]

I gave up hunting a few years ago because the lyme disease is almost at an epidemic level here in southern New England. I guess if I were hunting with my Hawken I'd let the brass tarnish a bit to cut down on the flash. But being that I only punch paper now I keep the brass bright and clean...Jim

[sharps4590]

I sold my last rifle with brass of any kind on it probably 20 years ago.  Never did like the stuff on a rifle.  Matter of fact I believe it was a TC Hawken.  Never cared much for them either, not that they aren't a good rifle as they are.  I thought the Seneca much nicer of the two.

I don't believe the shiny brass bothers the deer much, if any.  I know the silver inlays and patch box on my Lancaster doesn't seem to bother them.  I could see the possibility of flash alerting game when I lived in Wyoming but not here in the heavily wooded Ozarks.

Vic

[roundball]

I don't believe the shiny brass bothers the deer much, if any.
Vic

Doesn't bother them at all...movement is what gets their attention.
I even added solid brass ramrods for extra strength, weight, and more pretty brass...

[spitpatch]

I'm with you, Roundball......gimme' brass and lots of it! I think it enhances the look of beautiful wood, although I don't keep it shiney

[lostid]

it is interesting,,,I don't care fer shiney brass either. I put a "patina" look on all new brass I own by rubbing a first pass swab patch from cleaning the bore on the shiney stuff,. I wait 24-48 hours then oil and care for it like all my guns. Too clean it off(!),(?), all it takes is 4-ought steel wool and sum rubbin..(polish if ya want too)
 Deer don't care if it's shiney or dull,..ya know?,,Deer don't even care if it's rust brown, raw, or blued.
 Brass is so easy too polish. : Brass; copper and zinc;: a soft metal composite,,

[lostid]

I even added solid brass ramrods

 If you got that ramrod from 45man,,,your welcome.
(sure beat's the heck-outta tryin ta "blue" stainless steel don't it)

[Slamfire]

I even added solid brass ramrods

 If you got that ramrod from 45man,,,your welcome.
(sure beat's the heck-outta tryin ta "blue" stainless steel don't it)

I thought you powder coated stainless, if you wanted blue.  :roll:

[lonewolf5348]

I like the brass on my old hawkens always spit shine bright,but I think the above hawken look a little more traditional drop into a pa hunter stock.I miss the double set triggers on the hawkens

[Hammerspur]

I like them with different finishes, blued, browned, whatever, including brass... but I like to weather the shiny stuff with brass black to give it an old, well kept look as opposed to new from the factory.

[dodd3]

heres a pic of my 50 cal brass an all just finished doing it up.
bernie

[dodd3]

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[spitpatch]

Dodd3.....Very, very nice. Thats what I'm talking about. Well done!

[lostid]

I thought you powder coated stainless, if you wanted blue.  :roll:

 i thought this was sposta be about trad guns???