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Painted Camo Rifle stock


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venison stew

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I don't know if I,ve got too much time on my hands, but I was thinking about painting the plastic stock of my rifle in a camo pattern and I'm having an "is this a good or stupid idea" moment. Has anyone on here done it? if so how did it turn out? I've seen a few ideas from across the pond using krylon paint and bits of twigs and grass.

Stew
 
To do a good job takes time to get it right; personally I would buy some proper rifle finishing products such as Du-coat and use the right temples for the pattern you want, PM Jager S A on here he has more experience of this than anybody in the UK in rifle finishing.

ATB

Tahr
 
Here's one I did earlier:) My wife was painting some garden gnomes and I noticed the paint was 'Duracoat' so to break the boredom and keep her company while she was working I did a spare stock on one of my rifles and so far it has drawn remarks like "Oh my god whose is that" "what the H*** happened to that" and "my god I've heard of a technicolour yawn but never seen one until now":eek:
CamouflageStock003-1.jpg

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But I don't care, because it covers up some Devcon filled holes where I dug out channels to put a Detachable magazine in and it didn't go right and looked horrible:cool:.
At least I can now be sure nobody else has one like this -nor wants one:D
 
Thar and Finnbear, thanks for the advice I will contact Jager SA before I do anything. EMcC thanks for the pics - I like it - camotastic.

Stew
 
Hello stew,

I would try hydrographics.co.uk or .com as they are specialists in customising rifle stocks. May be more expensive than DIY but you may end up with the perfect look.

ATB Colin
 
you may not want this particular pattern, but these video's cover the basics pretty well.




 
Thanks very much for all the info guys. I don't really want to spend too much on it because it is a working rifle and it will get chipped and bumped. It is an old grey blue steyr pro hunter plastic stock with some scratches and dents on it. I have opened up the barrel channel to ensure that it free floats with a mod and bipod and stiffened the stock. It shoots perfectly. But now I can see inside the front of the stock and so I want to fill it with something lightweight then paint it. I want something that looks OK and can be retouched so that I am not more worried about the stock than the stalk. I would prefer a DIY option as that is part of the fun of it for me. I dont think that a deer has seen my rifle stock before it has seen me so I consider the camouflage effect to be of limited practical value, but I may be wrong.

Thanks again

Stew
 
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