grey metal finish?

[Buzzard Bait]

I'm thinking of finishing a rifle in some sort of grey finish. I have seen some Ruger Rifles with a grey color finish that was darker than a stainless type finish. Any Ideas or suggestion's I don't think I want to "paint" the gun with a bake on type finish.
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[ebell46]

You can do a rust blue, after about the third application you begin to get a nice gunmetal grey color

 

[Edward429451]

I had my shotgun powdercoated black chrome which is a dark grey.

 

[jason75979]

That's Rugers Target Gray finish. Don't know how its applied though.

 

[mete]

Browning has had some grey guns that had a electroless nickel finish.

 

[Bill DeShivs]

Nickel or hard chrome applied over a matte sand or bead blasted metal finish will give you what you want.
Acid finished white metal can rust easily, so it's not recommended.

 

[Ideal Tool]

French Grey finish? This is a case-hardending process without the mottled colors.

 

[WESHOOT2]

fancy colours

NP3 from Robar is a silvery gray (among otgher things).

 

[Scorch]

GunKote

 

[TJH3781]

Contact Brownel's. They used to have the instructions on how to French Gray a firearm available for the asking.

 

[ClydeFrog]

DIYer, Bearcoat.com, Robar NP3+

If you want a clear, professional job to add service or protection to your firearm, I highly suggest www.apwcogan.com www.bearcoat.com www.robarguns.com .
CeraKote may be available in a dull gray or "battleship grey" color.
Robar's top notch NP3+ helps clean/support the weapon's surfaces but it's not cheap & gunsmith work may take 3/6mo.
Bearcoat.com comes in grey too and they have short shop times for most firearms. The rifles are in use by some sworn LE agencies & SWAT.
Brownells, www.brownells.com is good for the "kitchen table gunsmith" .
MidwayUSA.com offers a lot of stuff too.
ClydeFrog

 

[Bill DeShivs]

Notice that the OP said he didn't want to paint the gun!

 

[Buzzard Bait]

get that stuff out of my kitchen

Clyde no kitchen table gunsmithing here (wife won't tolerate it) I got a table in the extra bed room / office
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