You can choose not to do that NRA thing at midway. I checked it out out of curiosity, and I dont know whats up with that crazy 14.00 thing. The bluing cream has no fees like that there.
Birchwoodcasey.com is where I got mine, 7.00 shipping for both blue and brown solutions. Amazon will ship it free supersaver--unless the fees come from being shipped to Florida.
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I was screwing around, just looking at cold bluing stuff from different places and ran into this
http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/lid=1...Blue-Finishes-
Its not bad. You dont have to buy all those Brownell products, though. Especially the surface cleaner.