Need help selecting colors

[Graybeard]

I've put off jumping into this one a long time and quite honestly have read few of the posts but will now add my two cents worth.

It really matters not in the least what colors you chose most especially since you say you can't see them anyway. To me camo on guns and really for the most part on your clothing is for you not the game anyway. So chose what makes you happy and don't worry about what effect it will have on game as it will have none. Folks hunted without camo on guns for a long time and did just fine and still can.

I do have a few camo guns from the factory and wouldn't mind having more really but accept that they are for me not to hide them from game. Anything that dulls the shine off your guns will help but you're mostly kidding yourself if you think camo painting them is gonna make a difference in your success rate.

[Dinny]

Thanks Bill!

After reading all of this, I can't help but feel a bit foolish.  Ya know what they say, "a fool and his money are quickly parted".

Just for the record, I have spent alot more money much more foolishly.  I think that's somewhat normal and I would suspect I'm not alone. 

~Dinny

[Lon371]

  ok ok , I must confess I don't do it as much for the deer as I do for me .  I have done a couple of mine, because the had rust on the barrels. I am hard on guns and lazy and they were cheap. So instead of trying to shine them up, I got out the spray cans. Although I did have my Mossberg with the camo wrap stuff once. And had a doe stop and stare at 15 yards or so, she wrinkled her nose at it, I ate her that winter.

Lonny

[LaOtto222]

I have seen some home made camo jobs that look pretty good. They base painted the rifle an OD green. Then attached various leaves from the woods they are hunting in, in a random pattern to the gun and sprayed on a tan color, then reattached more, different leaves, to it and sprayed on a light brown. It gives a very woodsy look. I do not think they used an air brush, just cans of spray paint. You could start with a light brown and then layer on OD green and then tan or any other colors that you think would blend in. Use Krylon Fusion, if it is on plastic.

[Dinny]

Thanks for everyone's help and advice.  I think I have DIY project on my hands.  Here are a few examples that I'm leaning towards.

Lonny are you up for the task of helping me??

Thanks, Dinny

[LaOtto222]

I only own 1 camo gun - a Remington Super Mag and it came from the factory with it. Personally I am not a big fan of camo - but hey; to each thier own. I think a parkerized finish is about as good as it gets for durability and no shine, but you just can't beat a highly polished blued gun for looks.

[Dinny]

but you just can't beat a highly polished blued gun for looks.

I know what you mean, I have a Beretta O/U I bought in Germany that is just flat-out beautiful, blued with great wood grain too.

~Dinny

[Lon371]

 Yeah I like them purdy guns too. But i have a time keeping the deer from admiring them
If I did shoot at a range or club, or had hooks to hang them on the wall, I would get one.

Dinny,
 I think both of those should be pretty easy.

Lonny

[Lon371]

Hey Dinny
Found this page this morning. There is several references to doing a camo job.

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,185718.msg1098928120/boardseen.html#new


Lonny

[Dinny]

Lonny,
   Thanks!  I have been reading for hours now.  Just when I think I'm to the end, another link appears and I read it too.   Lotsa good info out there on painting rifles.


Thanks, Dinny

[Saloon slug]

All of them will work I like the look of the first AR you posted. Coyotes have really good eyes but don't see colors the way we do you being color blind is actually an advantage for you depending on what colors you are deficient. They dont see red or orange, they see yellow but not well.

Here are some examples of guns that I painted and they work for what I do.



find the rifle


Here it is in black and white