squawsach
10-15-2012, 01:54 PM
I have been playing with Savage rimfires for a couple years but I just discovered Savage Shooters forum. I thought I would say HI and post the lastest mods done to my turtle shooter. I bought one of the $99 MkIIs from Wal-Mart many moons ago and turned it into a project gun. I can't leave things well enough alone and the rifle may have been a real shooters as it was but I took it home and knocked the barrel out of it before I ever shot it. It looked like this before before I started the project.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/markiif.png
I bought a GM barrel blank and had in turned to my specs and I put a PTG Match chamber in it and and crowned it. The stock needed replaced but at the time the only drop in stocks for the MKII were pretty much like the factory stock. I ordered an uninletted Warner Varmint stock from Boyds and did the inletting for the MKII. There were several other mods to the action. It ended up looking like this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/ssboltaction011_edited.jpg
It has been my goto turtle rifle. My hunting partner recently set up a hydrographic dipping shop. We would use some of my guns to learn the process. I would help screw things up quite a bit. He would learn from my mistakes. Now, I make a mess of things far less often and he usually gets them right the first time. Getting a good dip is hard. Most guns get dipped in a camo pattern with a matte finish. The matte camo hides many small imperfections in the stock. We decided to make a rifle with some "BLING!" and the turtle gun was picked for the project. The stock was stripped of the oil finish, shot with high build automotive primer, sanded smooth, and shot with three coats of 2k automotive paint in metallic gold. The barreled action was bead blasted, primed with self etch primer, and shot with metallic silver. The stock and barrel were dipped, rinsed, and shot with high build clear. The stock received a candy red midcoat during the clear process. We knew that the bright, glossy finish hides nothing. We spent some time on the prep work before laying paint. The gun has enough "BLING!" that it was difficult to take pics of it. It's blinding in the sunlight.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/gold22011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/gold22005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/gold22007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/markiif.png
I bought a GM barrel blank and had in turned to my specs and I put a PTG Match chamber in it and and crowned it. The stock needed replaced but at the time the only drop in stocks for the MKII were pretty much like the factory stock. I ordered an uninletted Warner Varmint stock from Boyds and did the inletting for the MKII. There were several other mods to the action. It ended up looking like this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/ssboltaction011_edited.jpg
It has been my goto turtle rifle. My hunting partner recently set up a hydrographic dipping shop. We would use some of my guns to learn the process. I would help screw things up quite a bit. He would learn from my mistakes. Now, I make a mess of things far less often and he usually gets them right the first time. Getting a good dip is hard. Most guns get dipped in a camo pattern with a matte finish. The matte camo hides many small imperfections in the stock. We decided to make a rifle with some "BLING!" and the turtle gun was picked for the project. The stock was stripped of the oil finish, shot with high build automotive primer, sanded smooth, and shot with three coats of 2k automotive paint in metallic gold. The barreled action was bead blasted, primed with self etch primer, and shot with metallic silver. The stock and barrel were dipped, rinsed, and shot with high build clear. The stock received a candy red midcoat during the clear process. We knew that the bright, glossy finish hides nothing. We spent some time on the prep work before laying paint. The gun has enough "BLING!" that it was difficult to take pics of it. It's blinding in the sunlight.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/gold22011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/gold22005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/squawsach/gold22007.jpg