camo paint?

bigbuck92 12/30/06 6:22pm

ok i was thinkin of camo paintin my gun but i dont know how to do it and i was wondering if people had pics of there guns that they have done. im thinkin of doing it in desert camo 2.

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ABert

12/30/06 11:04pm

Unless you are using the gun for turkey or ducks, I wouldn't bother. And it you have a wood stock, not too sure how well it would work. Just my .02

OregonEric

12/30/06 11:41pm

You probably don't need to do it. But I figure you wanna make it look cool right? Like Abert said, unless it's synthetic you shouldn't try it. Wood looks good the way it is, even if it is all tore up.

Wharpoley put this pic up a while back of his rifles. The first thing to do is clean the stock real well, then use some decent drab green spray paint in a satin finish (not gloss or high gloss). Then you need to get some leaf (or whatever you like) stencils and spray over them, or cut them out and spray through them. Wharapoley did a great job it looks like, so he will know more than me. But most likely it will look a little cheesy when your done, but maybe that is cool to you. What rifle are you thinking of doing that to?

bigbuck92

12/30/06 11:48pm

well im thinkin of tryin it on a cheap Rossi so if i totaly screw up it wouldnt cost me a huge chunk of change. but im still iffy if i want to do it or not

a_bow_nut

12/31/06 11:14am

Search the web for camo gun sock.

It will show you a bunch options that are cheap and if you you don't like it you wont have to spend a bunch of time takeing it off.

bigbuck92

12/31/06 6:14pm

thanks a_bow_nut

bigbuck92

1/2/07 10:09pm

does anybody paint there guns?

Meathunter13

1/3/07 10:53am

I do my own camo jobs... Ill try to get a pic up this week. You can find a dull matte spray too so that once your done you can coat it with poly without any sheen its the best and can be found in most hobby shops. Mine turned out better than I expected. I took them apart and taped all the parts I didnt want paint on.

Wharpoley

1/5/07 7:36pm

I painted my .223 (2nd one down) with some krylon camo paint. it is flat, and dries fairly hard. the other green one in the pic is my weatherby which is colored in the mold. I am not brave enough to paint anything worth alot of money.

PaRu

4/12/07 12:28pm

I used krylon paint eight or so years ago and still looks good, try to get some pics when i figure out how to post them.

NONYA

4/12/07 2:08pm

Heres a pic of my buddy holding my 2 latest paintjobs,Deathdealer my 7 mag and Smokey my new Rem inline.If you do any coyote calling a stainless barrel and a shiney black synthetic stock can ruin a stand,I dont like the shine of a stainless barrel on any hunt,i found a way to cover it without destryoing it,wrap the barrel in medic tape and then paint,works great.\