My daughter wants a rifle. A pink one.

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Gunbabe said:

I think it's great that she wants one and to care enough to personalize it. Hopefully my girls (currently 2 and 10) will be there one day.


I agree with you a 100%, mine are 5 and 3. Let her paint it pink, not the garand though. I will buy mine a pink cricket if she wants it, I'll let her choose. soon very soon
 
Here is a photo of my sister's gun... she wanted it in Pink (she was 15) and she loves shooting it at the range....

"How come no one wants to shoot mine but they all shoot yours?"

"They are worried someone might mistake them for being gay....."

"Cool! More range time for me!" :)


Remington 700, Douglas barrel in .243 win
http://www.wenig.com/ has replacement stocks... they do fully finished ones as well as blanks and ones you finish yourself....
 

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My 5 year old girl saw the pink Cricket rifle at teh local dealer. She wants it soo bad it hurts. She just started K this year and I told her grades will determine if she gets it or not. Now, I know it will be a few years before she is able to understand fully the resposability, but my wife agrees that she could shoot when under the direct controll of us and no one else is with us.

Now, to the OP, yup, let her pick one out and paint it pick, as pink could be if she wishes. If done right, it can be classy and custom.
 
We painted my daugheter's .22 pistol with Duracout from http://www.houtsenterprises.net/index.html. Here are the results. The advantage of paint is that she can choose to do only what she wants, and can personalize it, rather than having the factory decide what should be pink.


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I think it will work on wood too, but I'd stick with synthetic. Just doesn't seem right to paint a nice wood stock.
 
If my daughter wants a pink gun ,, she gets a pink gun !! :)

about the boyfriend !! at least you like him , and he likes to go shooting with you and your daughter ! :D

every time i see my daughters boyfriend , I wonder how much chain he could swim with !!:banghead:
 
Oh yay! When my daughter's bring boyfriends around it won't just be daddy sitting around with guns it will by mommy too. I'll just happen to be cleaning them. :D
 
To all talking about "cleaning guns when the boyfriend shows up", please remember: no matter HOW "straight and narrow" a path you scare him onto, your daughter can yank him off that path in an instant. The best you can hope for is to scare him into not instagating anything... ;)

As for pink (or other colored) guns: I'm gonna have to order a set of those purple grips for Spoon's stainless Kimber compact. The girls want somethng, they get it...
 
Yay strings I know I was there once. Everyone thought I was the "quiet one" need I say more. I don't blame the guy either it takes two I was just saying.
 
Get an Encore or Contender with an extra set of cheap walnut or composite stocks ($30), and paint away That's what I did for my son's rifle to cut them down to his size...then install the full-size ones when he rows into them.
 
I'm still thinking pink Garand.

I'm a few years away from High-Power shooting with my little girls, they will be getting a pink Cricket soon. But I am now keeping my eyes open for a totally beat-up Garand stock/handguard set or two.:evil:

I'll let them pick the color. Maybe a nice pink varnish over a sanded birch stock.

TX1911fan - That is a sharp-looking pistol. (Although I'd personally pick a nice OD Green.)
 
Hi Dave,

The color is irrelevant, however, I can tell you from personal experience that a Garand is too much rifle for a girl that age.

As for the "gentleman" that suggested cleaning guns when dates arrive... While still humiliating it's still far better than sharpening very large knives and making small talk about castrating farm animals.

That said my first experience with center fire rifles was an ancient Winchester 92 carbine in 32-20. It was small enough the recoil isn't painful and despite it's age very accurate.

Selena
 
When my brother was in college, my mom bought his girlfriend a toolbox of which she had glued pink ribbons to all the tools.

The problem was this girlfriend owned tools already, but her male friends kept borrowing them and not returning them.

Sure enough, the pink ribbon tools were always returned promptly.

Maybe your daughter has a similar thought in mind?
 
I think I will be stripping the Marlin for her to paint. It's only 22LR, a $12 brick will last several afternoons together, and it's already in the house. We only need the paint. Oh yeah, she wants the pink grips for the Ruger MkII to match.

I'll post pics when it's done.
 
Just point out to her that she wouldn't repaint an original "...", but that if she wants her own rifle you can get one for her and it can be pink or purple or any color she likes.
 
The color is irrelevant, however, I can tell you from personal experience that a Garand is too much rifle for a girl that age.
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There's apparently some guys the Garand's too much rifle for. Some people, guys and girls, can handle more than others. Everybody's different. I wouldn't paint with such a broad brush.

As to what rifle gets painted, if it were me dealing with any rifle, I'd get an extra stock and paint it. I'd keep the original as original. Unless you decided to re-do the paintjob, it's easier to just swap stocks than it is to strip paint if you don't like it later.
 
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We've made them for a while for custom orders. Just added a listing http://www.2rco.com/products.html for those of you who wanted the MKII grips. 10% OFF with discount code NRA1776 entered at checkout.

If she'll shoot it getting a clunker stock for the Garand and painting it pink would be well worth it!
 
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