No you don't. Easy way to just to go with a complete Kidd set up.
You can make your own receiver and avoid having a serial on it, or you can buy one of the various aftermarket receivers (Brownells, etc), transfer it via a dealer to you, and build on.
Sadly all of the old school smith services like Brimstone for trigger work and CPC for complete over-hauls are all closed now....
Feel free to ask more, I've been playing with accurized 10/22s for 20 years.
Note that a half gallon of paint will shrink your groups by at least 1/4 of a MOA
