How to camouflage a rifle

Vmax17

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i'm going to camo my gun, does anyone have any tips for me so i don't screw up my gun but get a good pain job out of it?
 
Best advice I can give is go slow and don't get impatient. I recently decided to paint one of my calling rifles. I spent all morning sanding the factory finish off the old wood stock (I even sanded out the checkering). I gave it a good primer coat of White Krylon primer. Next I sprayed it using Krylon Camo Flat Tan. I know this sounds crazy, but I stole a pair of my wife's fishnet stockings. I stretched one leg over the rifle and proceeded to paint it in Krylon Ultra Flat Green. Took the nylons off and man it looked great. Then I got too creative. I masked off the areas on the forearm and grip where you would hold the rifle. I sprayed these areas with Fleck Stone Sand color to add some grip to those areas. Here's where my impatience took over. Whereas before I allowed ample time for the paint to dry before proceeding to the next step, this time I got in a hurry and applied the clear coats to soon. The Fleck Stone needs a couple of days to cure not a couple of hours. Needless to say I have to start over, but the fishnet look was awesome. Kinda looked like snake scales. I'll add some pics tomorrow. Take your time.
 
oh by the way Ishould thank velocity for posting this Iwas tossing around painting a couple of my guns but couldnt bring myself to do it. problem solved thank you velocity!! B.A.C.
 
I just did mine about a month ago. A couple of tips for you.

1) Take your gun to a body shop and ask them to spray it with Ergobond, or another acid etch compound. It'll make the paint stick, especially on a stainless gun. Do the actual painting yourself...its kinda fun. I have a buddy of mine who owns a body shop... he put the Ergobond on for nothing.

2) Make sure you use the same brands of paint for ALL your colors. If you mix brands of paint, it'll blister. The white and tans on my gun didn't quite see eye to eye and I had to redo it after I had EVERYTHING done.

3) I sprayed my gun..just the stock.. with Duplicolor truck bed liner, you can get from wal mart or the auto parts store. Everywhere that had the bed liner, the paint stuck awesome. The places that I left the liner off, the paint chips easily.

4) Do this project in the summer when you aren't using your rifle. It dries faster in the garage during the summer, and you aren't under pressure to "hurry up and get it done" so you can take it out on the next hunting trip and screw up the paint cuz you didn't wait long enough.

That's what I learned painting my first gun.

GJ

Good luck.
 
I did this one with the HS camo kit.I cleaned the metal real good with paint thinner and sprayed it with rustoleum primer before paint. Just use your imagination and don't get in a hurry. (Let it dry between coats.)
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Here are the pics I promised. I'm going to redo the rifle, but not bad for a first try. The barrel is a varmint weight fluted stainless and I coated it with krylon clean metal primer first (two coats).
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The great part of the home camo job with spray paint is if you don't like it, do it over again. I painted a couple of rifles and one I just left olive drab base because it looked so good without other colors (factory camo stock) and the other with 3 color pattern. For prep I used Krylon primer for rusty metal after using acetone to clean the painted surfaces. Tan base coat as recommended by the instructions on the Krylon camo paint and then just tiger stripes with the other colors. Matte clear topcoat. Practice with some grass or twigs held over the base coated gun and then short blasts of the other colors to leave impressions. That will give you a depth pattern that you want. The animals can't judge the camo, only your hunting buddies. I must admit it is hard to spray the first one...
 


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