Camo Stock

[Ben]

If you have a nice camo stock hunting rifle, I'd like to see a photo of it. I'm about to camo a Ramline stock and want some ideas.

Ben

[dk17hmr]

I did my 308 NEF and AR15 vamint rifle.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f208/dk17hmr/Camo2.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f208/dk17hmr/CAMO1.jpg

I just used a branch from a ceder tree and kept spray over it. Than a coat of lacquer when I liked it to keep the paint from getting scratched up. I have bluffed them yet to knock down the sheen of the lacquer.

[kir_kenix]

that is a really nice looking camo job there! None of mine ever ended up looking that sharp. I might have to give it another try when the weather gets warmer and less windy.

[yondering]

This is a pretty poor picture, but pretty much the same idea as above. I used a cedar branch, a fern, and a huckleberry branch. Paint was just Krylon camo colors, but it's held up since 2002 with no problems. I did use the Brownells bake on laquer in OD green on the metal, with camo paint over that.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c26/zthang43/Misc/Scout-1.jpg

[Ben]

Nice photos ! ! This is giving me good fuel for thought.

Keep them coming, surely some of the rest of you have one that you'd like to show off . Now is your opportunity.

Thanks,

Ben

[Junior1942]

Here's my 93 Mauser: http://www.castbullet.com/misc/m932.htm Krylon paint is good stuf.

[Ben]

See thread # 11

[Hardcast416taylor]

A trick we used to do in a small gun shop a few years ago is as follows. If you are either fully painting a stock or just certain areas use textured automobile trunk paint. It comes in different colors and adds a texture to the area painted for better control. We did whole wood or synthetic type stocks, either all over or just the fore end and pistol grip. We did 1 I remember camo with different leaves and fern fronds for a stencil, turned out very nice. :mrgreen: Robert

[crabo]

Does this count? I did this for a friend about 25 years ago. You could almost lose it in the parking lot.

[Russel Nash]

for some ideas go rent the movie "Shooter" on DVD.

They have some additional content on the disc where they show the movie's "sniper advisor" "tacticooling" up a Remie 700 synthetic stocked rifle.

For other idea I hear there is a sniper's hide forum. I would imagine there is some gallery for pics like what you're looking for.

There is also the Lightfighter Tactical forum.

They have a subforum called primary individual weapons forum, and I think in there you will find a thread with tons of pics dedicated to camo'ed "sniper rifles".

I forgot what they called them exactly... MOR maybe... for manually operated rifle.... or something something platform...:roll:

[Ben]

I did a last minute modification to my camo job today.
I had some Slate grey in the stock. I removed that today, I was afraid that the light colors in the grey would look un-natural in the Alabama hardwood bottoms.

I replaced the slate grey with Krylon Camo Ultra Flat Brown. I believe in the areas that I hunt that this will work out much better.

He is the final version, I think I can live with this.........

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/PICT0002-24.jpg

[Just Duke]

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/vicferrari/images/firearms/Birch%20stocks/Rifles/010_03A.jpg

DMR Upgrades - Springfield Armory M1A National Match Rifles. Medium weight NM barrel. NM sights .Unitized gas cylinders by Huey Gunner (NY), operating rod spring guides by Sadlak Industries (CT), and stock hardware phosphate coated. USGI birch NM stocks pillar bedded (glass bedded) in Brownells Steel Bed, stock hardware finished with Brownell's baking lacquer and stocks painted with Centurion brand automotive paint. All of the M1A rifles pictured shoot ragged hole groups at 100 yards.




Featured on Different's website and book;
http://www.imageseek.com/m1a/gallery/civilian/01000001_G


THE VIDEO
http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e234/ChrisitoBandito/?action=view&current=DSCN5122.flv




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[crgaston]

A little late, but I gotta get in on this.

Good job, Ben! Don't be afraid of the lighter colors. Check out the way the sunlight filtering through the trees in the pics below brightens things up.

Duke, those are nice ones. Are they yours? I've seen 'em at Different's website.

Yonderling, I love your rifle. Details, please!

I've done several of these with spray paint and then a sealer coat of clear satin. While the sealer coat is still tacky, I rub it with some handfuls of the fine mix of sand/red clay that we have here in middle GA. Gotta do it when it's really dry and the dirt is like dust. It helps take the shine off and it feels better, too.

I like to go for a less-defined pattern. It's my theory that it'll be harder to focus on that way. Plus I think it looks cool. :cool:

This one's done with a greener theme...
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/8669number13.jpg

This one is for Georgia pine forests; primer gray, rust primer, and a light dusting of flat black. Probably thould have thrown some tan in, too... Not one of my better stocks, but I've got decent pics because I recently sold this one.

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/P1130892.JPG

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/P1130895.JPG

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/P1130894.JPG

[Ben]

crgaston :

Super nice work, you are ready to get into the camo business ! !

Ben

[Just Duke]

Duke, those are nice ones. Are they yours? I've seen 'em at Different's website.

Yonderling, I love your rifle. Details, please!
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Yes they were painstakingly built by me. I will though never glass bed a rifle again.
Lee/Diff used my pics in his M-14 book. He's a good friend of the wife and I.
I will never paint another stock again also with a the immulsion graphics companies out there. Lakota Ind. for one does great work and any camo you can think of.


Here I am shooting (video) one of those bad boys in my younger more tactical years. lol
http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/EBRSOPMODS/th_DSCN5122.jpg (http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/EBRSOPMODS/?action=view&current=DSCN5122.flv)

[mtnman31]

crgaston,
that is a pretty stout looking bench you have your rifle sitting on. Looks like something that I could mount a swaging press on. :-D

[crgaston]

crgaston,
that is a pretty stout looking bench you have your rifle sitting on. Looks like something that I could mount a swaging press on. :-D


Well, it'd be portable, at least! :-D

[Baron von Trollwhack]

You may wish to check Lauer Custom weaponry as they post a number of different guns and patterns and colors on their site. Close reading of their site will explain the technique and I found cheap krylon to be an easy paint to work with along with some blue, low stick masking tape. BvT

[Just Duke]

I like this thread.

[Lead Fred]

Ben, Ive done all my firearms in non reflective black. Which is the prefered color for night ops.

Ive always made gun ghillies to fit over them, so I can adapt to the season that is at hand.

http://www.ghilliesuitsuperstore.com/product_images/e/783/rifle_wrap__17129_zoom.jpg

[cheese1566]

Check this tutorial out! :

http://dougva.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Savage&action=display&thread=9692

Plus a few more if you Google "How to paint your rifle camouflage"