I'm thinking about painting my Marlin 1895.

natesfitness said:
Wow tough its crowd in the Hunt and Sporting arms section. In all seriousness the red dot is on there with QD rights for quicker sight adjustments at the range when shooting different loads. I have a set of skinner peep sights on there I shoot regularly as well. The ammo cuff comes from this man and you really can't knock it until you've tried it. I can throw one in the chamber without breaking cheek weld (the rounds are in front my of my eyes instead of near my shoulder where I can't see them) and it doesn't take away from the rifles handiness as much as a butt stock shell holder. Sorry its not leather but its functional.f:P:2:

AND I decided not to paint my rifle. I though about it this morning, I want a new rifle but me and the g/f are saving for a ring so I'm trying to keep myself occupied with the ones I have. Hence the painting idea:cheers:
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Still, at the risk of being name a "fudd" :) I think you made the right choice. You can always remove the red dot, or remove the bullet sleeve and still end up with a marketable firearm should you so desire in years to come. But painting it will clearly drop it's value, the other stuff, well that's just bling. I was in a similar situation, looking for long winter projects and took up improvement projects, like bedding, painting....yes painting. I purchase airbrushing equipment, tried my skills on various canvases. Then finally went on to rifle stocks. Here's a couple of projects that I did, on guns that would not suffer value loss. Spidey is a BR rifle which was snagged up the minute a buyer saw it, of course it was a shooter. The other was an air gun for my grandson, and finally my .223 Stevens 200 in the fugly plastic stock (highly modified). The reason that I show you these is to emphasize the fact that you want a project, lots can be found without having to deteriorate the value of your beautiful 1895. Find a project that will be enhanced by paint, not the other way around. Having said this, it is YOUR gun, enjoy it in whatever way works for you and good luck.

Spidey, the bench rest gun
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My grandson's air gun
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And my "yote" rig
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SuperCub said:
That's what I said.

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Yeah, pictures weren't up, but he did seem to go off the deep end towards the end of 2009, too bad. But the one painted Marlin that I refered to was by a fellow that worked at the now defunked Russel Sports. His gun did look functional and all, but I saw no purpose in it other than devaluation. :redface:
 
All expensive and increasingly valuable collectible firearms should have a good coat of paint applied by the simplest of means. Tremclad would be a good choice. School bus yellow...you'll never lose the gun if you fall down. You have been drinking, right?
 
Theres a fella on the EE that will paint the action forest green too if you ask. Sorry but I am a full fledged FUDD! I really like a nicely blued action on a decent piece of lumber. Thats just about as good as it gets long as it shoots good and is reliable. Been good enough for me for 45yrs of shooting. The only stuff I would paint is an ugly gun. Sorry lad but Marlin does NOT fall into that catagory. Some would say "how dare you??" but then you paid for it. If you want to camo your Esplanade or Lexus go ahead. Like others have said "forget about selling it". Good advice. To me a nicely turned firearm is almost a work of art and I will do my best to keep it that way. Let the FUDD be with you!!
 
bogie said:
Sorry but I am a full fledged FUDD! I really like a nicely blued action on a decent piece of lumber. Thats just about as good as it gets long as it shoots good and is reliable. Been good enough for me for 45yrs of shooting. The only stuff I would paint is an ugly gun.
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:p X2 and well put:p. I guess even an ugly gun needs love and if it takes paint to cover ugly so be it. Even then, if I had one, I'd rather put it out of my misery and sell it.
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TheTooner said:
If you people keep posting pictures on this site of nice lever-action rifles, I'm going to end up buying one. :mad: I can't afford one, I don't have any particular use for one, I don't have room for one, and I don't shoot the guns I already own often enough.
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I once saw a blr in 450 on the ee and thought, well, maybe I should pick up a second one, for when son comes moose htg with me....

and then I saw the picture of it. Someone had painted that beautiful browning walnut stock black. Damn near puked. :eek:
In my opinion that's how you turn an 800.00 gun into a 200.00 gun.

Like someone said, it's your gun, do what you want. Just don't think anyone will ever buy it from you.
Maybe take a nail and scratch your name on the reciever, too. That's another thing every buyer wants in a used gun. :p
 
Suka said:
I once saw a blr in 450 on the ee and thought, well, maybe I should pick up a second one, for when son comes moose htg with me....

and then I saw the picture of it. Someone had painted that beautiful browning walnut stock black. Damn near puked. :eek:
In my opinion that's how you turn an 800.00 gun into a 200.00 gun.

Like someone said, it's your gun, do what you want. Just don't think anyone will ever buy it from you.
Maybe take a nail and scratch your name on the reciever, too. That's another thing every buyer wants in a used gun. :p
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I've purchased some guns here on the EE and saw that same thing. It seemed a popular thing to do in the 1960's for some silly reason. In my world, I would never etch my name into a rifle, the serial number is enough to identify it as mine. Nor do I feel that I would ever loose it and hope that my etched name into it would cause it to come home, somehow. I do stamp my horsebrand into the leather sleeve of my lever guns, but that's more of a "tradionalist" thing than identification. Etching or scratching your name into a gun is sooooooo tacky. :)
 
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