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March 28, 2023
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Busy buying week. I got my first 7445~Palmer LNIB 10VH compensated (really an 8" barrel & 10" shroud) The 375 Supermag NIB (Serial #14) and the Virginia Revenuar NIB also. Got a great deal direct from the seller no tax $1000 on it. $1728 for the 7445 and $1580 on the 375 (got a set of dyes for $57 also free ship) Also this brochure in box (see pics) I now know where all that stuff came from! I would have liked the cutting board set! I have brass & bullets for the 375 also! 
February 16, 2016
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Stmstan 445 said
I got my first 7445~Palmer LNIB 10VH compensated (really an 8" barrel & 10" shroud)
Nope, it's a 7445-VH8C
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March 28, 2023
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It figures. After looking close at the NIB 375 Supermag it's showing plum on the frame! Every large frame Monson gun I have bought except my 45 Colt has been plum! I think every damm large frame that came out of the Monsun factory was messed up! Last one I evey buy!
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March 25, 2013
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Barney is not exclusive to Monson. All have some degree of difference in frame and other parts, including Palmer and Norwich. Age seems to intensify it. If it isn't orange, pink or mottled it really isn't too bad and doesn't seem to affect value much. I suggest you buy stainless guns. They are easily resurfaced with Scotchbrite and bead blasting. There are no stainless 375 Supermags though. And I don't think there are blue Palmer 414s. There are some few blue Norwich 414s though. 😉.
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January 24, 2009
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I have two guns who have a slight Barney tint to them, one is my Model 40 Monson gun (very slight Barney in bright light) which has probably seen the actual light of day maybe 12 hours in it's lifetime. But in the right light, there is some Barney to it.
My assumption is that when the guns were being blued at DW, often times they didn't religiously swap out the chemical in the tubs on time, which (in my opinion) may have brought on premature Barney issues. Either that, or the stinkin' EPA mandated the percentage of chemicals that could be used during the bluing process for a couple years. (I really am leaning heavily into this theory, these days). However. Once DW dialed in the chemical formula to be EPA compliant (Palmer years for example), that is when the super-deep bluing really came along. I kinda coined that bluing of those years as "ancestorial bluing"...or bluing so deep you can see your ancestors in there! 
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