I commented on this article the day it was posted, and my comment showed up, but has since, somehow, just disappeared.

I’ll repeat myself –

What is ‘Matte Blue’, is some type of metal coating, like what Ruger does on their LCR in .357?

Hoping this doesn’t also evaporate into the ether…

Barrel shroud, not hammer shroud, although you could get that too.

much higher percentage post here than where we met.
i gave up over there.

i know of the earliest sp101 in .38. the owner never shoots/ carries it, won’t part with it.
my ex has my unshrouded detective special. theoretically i could reclaim it.

Is it a metal coating, like what Ruger does with their LCR in .357? And why not a dirt-simple Parkerizing treatment instead?

Only took two hours for this comment to show up. Some of them never show.

What a way to run a rail road.

That detective special isn’t too hard to find. Colt made a million of them (literally) prior to 1973 when they introduced the hammer shroud. I’ve found these 1st and second series guns online from $600 to almost $3,000, depending on exactly what you are looking for. That said, as a big Colt fan, there’s nothing the DS does for me a Ruger 101 doesn’t.

Two of my biggest gun regrets is letting go of my unshrouded Dick’s Special and my 1903 .32. Deep, deep regret.

I don’t know why, but I was never a Python fan.