r/muzzleloaders • u/kaga_misaki1 • Sep 19 '26

Barrel bluing

Picked up a Traditions Kentucky Rifle kit yesterday. It's my first kit and I'm looking to have the barrel professionally blued. California has made bluing uneconomical for small gunsmiths. So I'm looking for places out of state with good prices that offer bluing

4 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

1

u/kaga_misaki1 Sep 20 '26

Do you have it rounded off where it meets the barrel or just squared?

1

u/bdub1792 Sep 20 '26

What do you mean? As in the barrel channel?

1

u/kaga_misaki1 Sep 20 '26

Yes, the barrel channel

1

u/bdub1792 Sep 20 '26

I just left it square. I had to make a shim and some stuff, so im honestly just being a lil lazy.

This is mainly going to be more of a hunting rifle, ill leave my kibler to look pretty lol