Track of the Wolf Tried and True Brown

[Herb]

I just visited Carl Walker, who worked at the Green River Rifle Works.  He is sawing out two Kit Carson stocks for me from blanks.  He showed me a .54 Leman he just completed for the GRRW Collector's Association, Serial Number L-1.  He browned it with Track's Tried and True Brown, which looked like the brown on my GRRW Leman I built in their shop in 1978, but had them brown.  (He has the recipe for GRRW Browning Agent, but says it has some nasty stuff in it, something mercury, so he doesn't make his own).  He said he browned it in 48 hours in his unheated basement, with a humidifier in the room.  He said he much prefers this T&TB to Laurel Mountain Forge Browner and Degreaser, in fact he gave me his bottle of that.  Just another option for browning.

[flinchrocket]

Herb, l have used several different browning solution's, but I like the R.E. Davis gun metal brown
the best. Never hear much about it,easy to use and does a good job.

[Hungry Horse]

 All the good browning solutions had Mercury in one form or another in them a few years ago. But, now that the we have all been labeled as to dumb to walk and chew gum, they have all been reformulated. Why do you think there are so many builders doing French grey finishes, and aged finishes? It's because the browning solutions are of poor quality, and yeald a poor finish.

  Hungry Horse

[Jim Kibler]

All the good browning solutions had Mercury in one form or another in them a few years ago. But, now that the we have all been labeled as to dumb to walk and chew gum, they have all been reformulated. Why do you think there are so many builders doing French grey finishes, and aged finishes? It's because the browning solutions are of poor quality, and yeald a poor finish.

  Hungry Horse

You really think this is why people age guns?

[Ray Barbarow]

I just completed a browning job this week using Homer Danglers Browning Solution (James Kline) which came out as a beautiful even dark brown. The owner picked it up today and made several remarks about how uniform the browning came out. I find that many do not follow the instructions have a tendency to not give the solution enough time to work. To much solution applied at each application, and rushing to be finished the browning are two of the biggest mistakes that I see most often.