So I picked this rifle up a couple months back from a fellow hide member. I followed the build thread on here and had to have it once it was posted. So I grabbed it, took a week or so to get it, threw it in the safe next to the other members of my M40 family. All was right in the world..........................................so i thought. My anxiety wouldn't let me forget it would look much better with a Redfield Greenie on top. So after searching to the end of the internet for a source on a greenie I was empty handed. This is where it escalated quickly. I started researching anodizing, it didn't look too hard. I had to figure out how to get a priceless accurange Redfield apart. After tearing down a couple cheap ones from eBay I was ready to give it a shot...............................................Below is the result of an insane amount of research, destroying a couple scopes, fabricating some tools, mixing chemicals in my garage, 5 gallons of sulfuric acid (I have to be some kind of watchlist now from buying all these chemical), possibly some tears, lots of Bourbon, and somewhere around 100 gallons of distilled water............................oh and many weird looks from the wife when she saw me looking like Walter White cookin shit up in the garage. I finally got a decent greenie for the M40. I still think this is too bright green, may try adding some black to the dye and doing another one. Let me know ya'lls thoughts. pretty pumped that it turned out green at this point.
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. They are generally better with color tone and variation. My daughter can describe things, that I don’t notice. More blue, wrong green, less yellow, etc. It goes back to their primitive instinct to choose the right berries and flowers for the tribe.
