Home Camoflaging your Rifle or Shotgun

[nuparadigm]

I stumbled (clicked) upon this site. It's a step-by-step guide for home-camo jobs on weapons. Jeff Foxworthy might call it, "better living through Krylon". Personally, I don't plan to use it, but there might be one of us who might want to try it.

http://www.gunnersgear.com/graces_camo/armory_cammo.htm

[Tactical_Texan_CHL]

That looks like it turned out pretty well. Although, I'd have to have someone professionally duracoat for me. I can't get past the burning inside when I think about getting near one of my own guns with a can of spray paint! Are you going to try it nuparadigm?

When we call coyotes, I just take strips of camo burlap and zip ties and get creative. Zip ties are cheap, and I can reuse the burlap. Next time I do it, I'll take pics and put them up. I also made my own electronic predator call, but that doesn't belong here. I'll document a predator calling trip with pics and post it in the hunting photo's section sometime.

[nuparadigm]

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Are you going to try it nuparadigm?
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I'm chicken. But I'll stand by when some other fool wants to do it ... might even admire his work!

[KBCraig]

I find camouflage to be mostly silly. Deer really don't care if your gun is black and brown, or shades of green and tan. Camouflaging things like flashlights, two-way radios, GPS units, knives, etc., is just downright stupid: when you drop those things in a pile of leaves in the twilight, you're going to wish they were hunter blaze orange.

[nuparadigm]

Smart or stupid doesn't have anything to do with it. People camo-up their firearms for the same basic reason that we own firearms: because we can.

Beyond that, I believe that there are certain applications in which a "cammoed" firearm would be helpful. Calling varmints is one of them - especially crow calling.

[NcongruNt]

Hah. I read this topic to mean camouflaging your gun *for* your home environment. As in, making it look like a lamp stand or some other innocuous item. Now it makes more sense.

[The Annoyed Man]

I thought this thread was going to be about camouflaging your rifle or shotgun so that it blends in with the sofa and floor lamp in the background.

[Dan20703]

Hah. I read this topic to mean camouflaging your gun *for* your home environment. As in, making it look like a lamp stand or some other innocuous item. Now it makes more sense.

LOL!!!
I thought the same thing.
Paint it the same color as the carpet, stencil a dog toy & tv remote on the side, maybe couple of socks and there you have it. "home camo"

[TDDude]

I find camouflage to be mostly silly. Deer really don't care if your gun is black and brown, or shades of green and tan. Camouflaging things like flashlights, two-way radios, GPS units, knives, etc., is just downright stupid: when you drop those things in a pile of leaves in the twilight, you're going to wish they were hunter blaze orange.

Deer are basically colorblind. I always thought dogs were also but I don't really know. That's one reason a hunter can wear Day-Glo colors and still have a successful hunt.

Deer see movement and have a very keen sense of smell and hearing. Wearing plaid and using scentless soap will go a lot farther than ruining the finish on a fine firearm.

Birds on the other hand probably require camo but I would still probably not do anything so permanent. I might look into tying pieces of burlap around the shiny parts. I don't think I'd ever want to paint it.