I bought my Krico 260 .22LR semi-auto off here last year.

It's now 22 years old, but is superbly built and shoots very accurately.

I liked it so much I decided to give it some TLC.

The stock had been painted camo by its previous owner, but I wanted plain black and decided to try DuraCoat, which I'd read about here.

Being a semi-professional model-maker and pretty handy with an airbrush I was originally going to do it myself, but in the end laziness took over and I sent it off to James Clark at Jager Sporting Arms (Kaleiderscope on here) who did a great job. The DuraCoat has completely cured and is rock hard, but flexible.

I had intended to get the action and barrel reblued, but was constantly let down by the agent who took on this job.

In the end I got them back off the guy in question and sent them off to James for him to DuraCoat as well.

Again, the finish is superb and the action has been Parkerised inside. The working parts are now as slippy as a very slidey thing.

Before:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1333532...n/photostream/

After:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13335322@N05/2220414595/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1333532...n/photostream/

I went for "gun blue" colour, but with hindsight would've preferred black. I mentioned this in passing to James and he offered to redo it for me!

That was a great offer, but one I didn't take him up on, as it wasn't his fault I'd chosen one particular colour over another.

So all in all I'm very pleased with the finish and extremely pleased with James' service. He kept me constantly updated every step of the way.

Top bloke!

I haven't had it out in the field since it received its "DuraLove", but I'm sure it will handle as good as it looks - and take the rigours of the field in its stride.

MM