Several weeks ago I came across a Bergara Wilderness Terrain in 6.5CM on Gunbroker. The pics showed a horror story. The rifle comes from the factory cerakoted and the stock camo painted with some webbing spray. This one had been kryloned without taking the action and barrel out, masking the trigger mechanism, removing the bolt, etc. I used the "take a shot" option and picked it up for a great deal.
I learned years ago to spray Duracoat, so the process began. I'm no gunsmith so I tossed the trigger in a drawer of parts, no sense using something that has to work and has paint in it. Replaced with a TriggerTech. I found rubbing alcohol will remove spray paint from metal and cerakote. It took some rubbing and patience but all the bolt parts and barrel came clean. Not factory new but close enough I didn't see the need to go to harsher chemicals. Unfortunately the spray paint was adhered to the factory paint so the stock had to be stripped to bare polymer. I repainted it with my version of a Bergara factory paint scheme so the colors are a shade or two different and I skipped the webbing spray.
All said I'm in for about 10 hours of cleaning, prep and painting, plus learned the alcohol trick. Now that it's "redone" I'll have to get some loads together and see how it shoots.
