How do you like your brass furniture - shiny or patina?

[Ironwood]

For myself I like my brass bright and shiny.  Every now and again I take the ol' polish and go over the furniture on my rifles.  Maybe some of that Navy training still lingers, "if it's brass, polish it". :D

[bwhoffman]

Just the opposite!!!

I like mine dull and tarnished and grungy. actually, I would prefer all iron hardware, but I guess I will "run what I brung"!

[karwelis]

with me it depends on the gun. if shes a beautiful carved custom, with a nice finish, i want her to lok her sunday best. now if its a barn gun, workin mans gun with minimal furniture no carvining let it tarnish take it out let her get some dings and dents in the stock.

karwelis

[mongrel]

Patina on my own guns. I actually only have a couple of brass-mounted guns and they both get used for hunting, so bright and shiny doesn't work.

[fd-ems-emt]

I like the Patina on my guns..
I not a person that shows them off.   
All my ML weapons are tools used for hunting.

[Chaffa Hosa]

On my TC's they are dull but if I ever get a "fancy" brass fitted one I'll kep it shiny 

[Mr Woodchuck]

No wall hangers here (not anymore)   I keep my guns clean enough for inspection.
   and use em'   hard.
ugh'

[RoaringBull]

Used lookin is how I likem

[windwalker_au]

For myself I like my brass bright and shiny.  Every now and again I take the ol' polish and go over the furniture on my rifles.  Maybe some of that Navy training still lingers, "if it's brass, polish it". :D

i like my brass on my .50 shining.
bernie :)

[Lady of the Woods]

not a problem I have... but IF I did.... I'd go with patina even though I like the looks of the shiny pretty ones, I aint buyin a wall hanger either.
z

[Ranger]

I guess that depends on if its purty or not. I like dull on the hunting guns.

[mongrel]

Of all the places you'd never expect to see something like this -- in a McDonald's in Flagstaff, AZ there was a framed poster, I guess you'd call it -- big photograph -- what I remember as either a Bedford or Chambersburg, PA longrifle laying across the top of a stump, slanted away from the viewer and pointed toward autumn woods. The stock was curly maple and had that dark, almost dirty-looking low gloss to it the old guns get after many many years of use, and the brass had dulled down -- morning sunlight hitting it -- that was one of the most beautiful pictures of a gun I've ever seen.

Patina, yes, please.

[Hawg Haggen]

What's a wall hanger? Ain't no sich critters hangin round my walls.

[Outdoorman]

When the hunting seasons I hunt are over, I shine them all up and put them away.  However they look in the fall is what we go with.

I can't think of a time when I thought the shine hindered my results.  When sitting in a treestand, I doubt it makes much difference.  On the ground might be a different story.  I suppose if I was hunting bigger critters in the mountains or out west, the dull look would be best. 

Good topic for discussion.
Outdoorman

[roundball]

I keep mine all shined up showroom ready...doesn't bother game a bit...movement is the give-away with game.

And IMO, if any game might spook at shiny brass it would be a turkey but I've killed two toms so far with a GM smoothbore Flint barrel in a shiny brass TC Hawken stock.