Don't reblue... that would be bad... just clean out the rust and keep it oiled lightly.

on a side note, I was doing a little googling around and found reference to someone claiming to own one with a 3 digit serial numbers... which would sort of blow out the water the idea that they started at 1000.

http://www.assra.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1276204271


Andrew