Polishing Brass.....

[Adam Helmer]

I am a Civil War reenactor and use lots of Brasso to polish buckles, cartridge box emblems, my M1853 Enfield bayonet and my M1853 trigger guard and butt plate. I then went over to my several Hawkins and polished every bit of brass on them. It is the off season and the guns on the horizonal rack look more like art work than hunting guns. My wife thinks the guns look beautiful, so need I say more? Before I go hunting with the Hawkins, I shoot a few rounds at the bench and wipe my BP sooty hands over the shiny brass and the gun is dulled up before I reach the house. I also have hand-rubbed in several coats of boiled linseed oil on the stocks of the Hawkens and they do look nice in the rack. Does anyone else polish their ML brass including powder measures, powder flasks and bullet starters? I have seen some powder measures and flasks so corroded that I feared to handle them. Well, mine are more user friendly.

Adam