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And here he is shooting it.
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This really gave me the bug to do this for my daughter too, as the project was a lot of fun. She had seen a pink-stocked .22 rifle at a gun show with me, but they wanted $200 for it and it certainly wasn’t worth it for a bolt-action .22 that had a lot of cheap plastic parts on it. Besides, I wanted her first gun to be personalized from her Dad just like her older brother’s first gun. I did not cut down this one, as she uses her brother’s right now and it will be a rifle she can grow into. She was very happy when she received it for Christmas a couple years ago!
![Image](http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m2/Ysabelkid/Weapons/2007-12-25SarahsChristmasrifle02.jpg)
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Again, these are fun projects, so I decided to do another one for me, one I’ve wanted to do for quite some time. A couple months ago I asked Jeremy a question about painting a camouflage pattern on a firearm. As usual, he gave a lot of good advice. Here’s the results:
The gun is a Marlin-Glenfield Model 25 magazine-fed bolt action .22 rimfire. I picked it up used at my local candy store, for a very reasonable price. It was actually in very good condition, but had just been refinished – so no issues with finishing it to my liking. Here it is before I started, with a bipod and scope that I added.
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First, I sanded the stock a bit to rough it up so it would take the paint.
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I removed the bolt, stock swivel and butt plate, then taped off the parts of the scope and gun I didn’t want to get paint on.
The first coat was Krylon flat-black. This was the base.
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I decided to use spray-on black “plastic-dip” for the butt-plate and bolt handle.
I waited for the black to set for several days (mainly because I was traveling last week). Yesterday I put tape stripes on the gun and scope. Here’s what that looked like:
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Next came the top coat, which was Krylon flat green.
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And here is what it looked like when I was finished.
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A better shot outdoors in natural light.
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And finally, just so you know it’s me!
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So Gunny, what do you think?