You guys remember the Watergun?
Found some folks at the gun show who do cerroko…cerok..cerrocoa..cer…screw it….they ceramic coat firearms. Their prices were very reasonable and the examples of their work looked pretty good. So…I left the Watergun with them and in a few weeks we will see what it looks like. For those who don’t recall, the Watergun is a HiPower brought up from the bottom of Lake Michigan. I purchased it as a box of parts and was surprised to find 90% of the parts were present and usable. Shoots fine, looks hideous. SO…in a couple weeks, we’ll do a grand unveiling. Stay tuned.
Can’t wait to see the pics….
I bet it comes out looking amazing. I once traded some merchandise to a customer for a beat-to-hell Remington 1100 with rust everywhere and wrong, cracked furniture on it. I took it to a local place and told them to make it disappear if I dropped it on a parking lot. They cut down the vent-rib barrel to 18.5″ in a way that I didn’t expect to be possible, put a fiber optic front sight on it, a SpeedFeed stock and matching front end, and worked it over to make sure it’d run. The result is probably my favorite long gun of all time. Impractical, but so, so handy and fun.
Sadly my shoulder problems keep me from shooting shotguns safely now, but Tam has it. 😀
Me too – lookin’ forward to seeing ’em
Commander:
I’m looking forward to this!
I enjoy it when people have the skills to bring back items that many consider “too far gone”.
A fine form of recycling…
Can’t wait to see this one!
It will be interesting to see how this turns out. I have been considering having this done to an old Winchester which has some serious wear issues in an attempt to clean it up. I keep waffling between this and simply getting it re-blued.
Commander,I might of found your next watergun project. Boston news had a story of a .357 revolver that had been found in a
New Hampshire lake,picture looked better than the watergun at the start
“might of”? Its “Might have”. Sorry…thats one of those little peeves that drives me nuts.
I actually ordered one of those ‘lifts a zillion tons’ supermagnets offa Amazon just for going gunfishing in the local rivers.