updated on the clean up
Lots of other projects got in the way of this one...
After restoring two of the three guns from WWII (posted on another thread) I am turning my attention to this P38. Did a little more work on the barrel and was pleasantly surprised to find that what I thought was rust inside was just a ton of dirt and crap that once cleaned out shows pretty good rifling! Used Naval Jelly on the outside of the barrel and that at least got the rust off somewhat, and there is only one spot of pitting not really deep.
Now I have to make a decision-
do I get it refinished completely and reblued and buy the parts to shoot it or not? I am thinking about getting a price locally on a reblue job once I can prepare it a little more using Jim's method of emory cloth and sanding.
Any thoughts?
Joe
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