Refinished My Browing A-Bolt 22-250

[GameEarGabe]

I decided to refinish my 22-250. Here are some pics. Good Bad and Ugly Comments Accepted.

Before
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530063.jpg

I then disassembled the rifle, degreased and rinsed with soapy water, and taped it off.

Khaki Base Coat
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530069.jpg

Pine Needle Camo
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530071.jpg

Second Color
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530072.jpg

Finished Product
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530083.jpg
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530084.jpg
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530094.jpg
Howling Coyote
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530100.jpg

Products
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530079.jpg

[CannedHeat]

Very cool. I did a shotgun in the same fashion with the same components.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee126/CannedHeatpics/Shotgunpaint.jpg

[reloadmike78]

I decided to refinish my 22-250. Here are some pics. Good Bad and Ugly Comments Accepted.

Before
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530063.jpg

I then disassembled the rifle, degreased and rinsed with soapy water, and taped it off.

Khaki Base Coat
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530069.jpg

Pine Needle Camo
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530071.jpg

Second Color
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530072.jpg

Finished Product
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530083.jpg
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530084.jpg
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530094.jpg
Howling Coyote
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530100.jpg

Products
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530079.jpg

Looks great man, did the same to my scatter gun this year. I think it turned out ok, I used almost the same products.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/life2extreme/Hunting/IMG_0041s-1.jpg

[DinkKiller]

Very nice job Gabe, Canned and Mike. With those posted resultes, I'm thinking of givng my 870 supermag synthetic the once over treatment. Very good work, fellas!

[David M]

Great job! I really like the howling coyote...gives it that personnal touch.

[GameEarGabe]

Thanks alot guys!!

Gabe

[JimT]

Thats really cool Gabe.... How did you apply the second color?

[GameEarGabe]

Thats really cool Gabe.... How did you apply the second color?

I used pine needles as a pattern and did the second color green and then went over that with the third color brown with the pine needles again.

Thanks,
Gabe

[JimT]

K. I get it. I really like how your rifle came out. What did you use to get all the oil off from it before laying down the first coat?

[mtswampfox]

very clever. will you do my encore??

[Oldtrader3]

Clever and cool Gabe. It certainly looks better than the original A-Bolt Composite.

[GameEarGabe]

very clever. will you do my encore??

Yes I will send it on over.!!!

Gabe

[GameEarGabe]

K. I get it. I really like how your rifle came out. What did you use to get all the oil off from it before laying down the first coat?


For some reason it wont let me post a pic link right how but this is what I used. Copy and paste it in your browser this is what I used to degrease it. Then I used soapy water to neutralized everything. Let dry and start sprayin.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/SD530065.jpg

[j270wsm]

As cool as it looks I dont think that I could bring my self to wreck one of my wood stocks, but mabey a synthetic.

[GameEarGabe]

As cool as it looks I dont think that I could bring my self to wreck one of my wood stocks, but mabey a synthetic.

Take the wood off and paint everything else.

[JimT]

I really want to do this to my adl synthetic...not sure if I dare to.....

[GameEarGabe]

I really want to do this to my adl synthetic...not sure if I dare to.....

The good thing about using sparay paint you can wipe it off if you want ti change it.

[dano23]

That looks great!

I'm going to do that to my boat this weekend.

[j270wsm]

Take the wood off and paint everything else.

When it comes to guns and trucks looks are important to me. Just painting the metal parts would'nt look right. But I still think Guns look awsome when they are 100% camo, scope included. One Day I will Find the right gun to give a custom paint job.

[GameEarGabe]

When it comes to guns and trucks looks are important to me. Just painting the metal parts would'nt look right. But I still think Guns look awsome when they are 100% camo, scope included. One Day I will Find the right gun to give a custom paint job.

I think this looks cool.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m274/geronimo505/100_1152.jpg

[Buckriser]

Looks good, i just finished mine a couple weeks ago. And am on my second one right now. I'd post a pic but im not too sure how to??

[reloadmike78]

There are a number of host sites on the web.....snapfish, tinypic,kodak gallery,photobucket, webshots etc just to name a few. Photobucket is easy to use.

Let me just say that you should size your pictures to no more than a 1000 pixles wide for sharing on forums. With Photobucket you can select what sizes the picture will be when they are uploaded.

Here's and example using Photobucket, it's very easy.
Go to your albums and select a picture like this, a drop down window will appear, left click and highlight the IMG code and then right click to copy.

It should look something like this

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f268/dubbleA/PB.jpg







Once you have done that, make your post and then paste the link wherever you want the picture to be. Of course if you have more han one picture you will have to repeat the step of copying each different picture IMG code.

It should look like this
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f268/dubbleA/errrrr.jpg



If you have done everything correctly it should look like this...

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f268/dubbleA/IMG_9368.jpg

Looks good, i just finished mine a couple weeks ago. And am on my second one right now. I'd post a pic but im not too sure how to??


Here is a good step by step tutorial on how to post pics. hope this helps.

reload

[Buckriser]

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee172/Buckriser/Before.jpg

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee172/Buckriser/After.jpg


Thanks for the help.
Heres is a before and after photo of my weatherby vangaurd. I finished the barrel in matte black from the regular blued, and then of course painted the stock.

[Buckriser]

Here is my dads .270 he wanted me to makeover for him. its almost done, just waiting for the scope to dry.
Before
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee172/Buckriser/Dads270before.jpg


After
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee172/Buckriser/Dads270after.jpg

[ivorytines]

Does doing this weather-proof your gun? I am thinking about getting a new in-line muzzleloader and had thought that I would get a stainless/composite model, but if this weather proofs yuor gun I might just get a cheaper blued barrel and do this, it would even look better.