scratches on my rifle. Please HELP
11-21-2009, 03:18 PM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 52
scratches on my rifle. Please HELP
i was recently trying to unscrew a stubborn screw on my rifle and my screwdriver slipped and made an awefull scratch down the side of my rifle....it has a matte coating and the scratch is bright silver, anyway to cover this up??? It also scratched the plastic cover that closes over where the shells eject out, (its a remington 7600) Is there anyway to replace this as well?
11-21-2009, 06:23 PM
#2
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,679
Yet another informative post by relentless. 
Snipe, get you a bluing pen and you can cold blue the scratch. It won't be the same matte finish but it will darken the scratch and make it much less noticeable.
As far as the dust cover goes, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It will get worn enough by simply using the rifle.
Snipe, get you a bluing pen and you can cold blue the scratch. It won't be the same matte finish but it will darken the scratch and make it much less noticeable.
As far as the dust cover goes, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It will get worn enough by simply using the rifle.
11-21-2009, 10:55 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 2,175
always put a drop of oil on the screw head . it helps from ripping up the slot on the screw head. use something like electrical tape to put around a potential area that a screw driver might slip down. i would tape the fine line of the scratch and fill with what matchs best. blueing or paint. maybe pick up a bottle of perma fin.
Last edited by liquidorange; 11-21-2009 at 11:04 PM.
11-23-2009, 03:26 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Danville Va. U.S.A.
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Good advice form the others.But just for S&G .Make up a good story about when you were getting ready to drop the hammer on that shot of a lifetime and just so happen to drag the gun on a screw on your tree stand and put the battle scar there.
11-23-2009, 04:47 AM
#6
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Paradise
Posts: 23,428
Good tools are necessary when working on guns. I often wondered what the special attraction was to gun smithing tools and now it makes sense. Every scratch has a story though. Good luck removing it but I can tell you that you will get used to it.
11-23-2009, 05:58 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Garfield NJ USA
Posts: 3,067
Yet another informative post by relentless.
Snipe, get you a bluing pen and you can cold blue the scratch. It won't be the same matte finish but it will darken the scratch and make it much less noticeable.
As far as the dust cover goes, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It will get worn enough by simply using the rifle.
Snipe, get you a bluing pen and you can cold blue the scratch. It won't be the same matte finish but it will darken the scratch and make it much less noticeable.
As far as the dust cover goes, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It will get worn enough by simply using the rifle.
11-23-2009, 03:31 PM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 138
ooooaaa i rememeber like it was yesterday. i had my new browning .270 abolt left hand medalion in hand. that was 20 years ago. anyway. i was bear hunting and we were all in a suburban. this older guy next to me, a lawyer, then became a mayor of a smaller town kept banging his pos rifle up against mine. i kept sharing my thoughts of this to him and he just looked proplexed at my dismay. well after 10 times, and said HEY DUDE get your DAMN gun off mine its scrarching the ---- out of it. i thought he would soil his panties. he watched his gun after that, but 20 years later i still have a bunch of scratches on it. so yea they all have stories, wish mine was from climbing a 300 foot rock wall going after a sheep. no, but i did climb up a lawyers ---.....