sngehl01

The gun is scratched up and stuff in the bluing. It's a .22LR I bought off a buddy for $50, marlin bolt action with tubular magazine. I got .22's coming out of my ears, but it was a pretty good buy, and I don't see many tube-mags with bolt action.

Anyway, the question I have is can I strip off the old blueing and just redo it, or do I have to apply bluing over top of the older stuff. I didn't wanna do the latter because I was afraid it wouldn't give a good finish.

Also, persay I didn't want bluing, but I wanted a black matte finish, how would I go about this? Would automotive paint be good for something like this or what?

Thanks for the help.