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I’m fairly sure you already knew this but no one is painting their stock camo in order to hide it from game.

I usually do 2-3 coats of the clear satin over the paint. If you've used a sponge or something else for texture, the clear coat won't diminish it.

LOL'd at this.

Old photo from way back.

Tikka t3 243 and rattle can gap camo.

Problem is, it's getting hard to find many rifles with decent wood stocks anymore. My 7-08 Montana that has all the appeal of a hammer.

These are my two recent. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't do the one with brown base and black and gold webbing very much justice. In person the brown base really makes the gold and black pop.

I tend to like the scratches, dents, scrapes and what not from using a gun. If I know when it occurred each one is a memory. MY BIL and Sister like PERTY guns. Wood and bluing which is fine but I will take a synthetic rattle can paint job versus a perty wood Browning. But that is just me!! Guns are tools to me. I don't have a rusted gun inside or out. If it is a modern gun and won't shoot MOA down the road it goes.

There are tons of them out there... most of them just aren't new. Almost done refinishing a Husky 1640 stock that's going to look better than 99% of what's rolling off production lines today.

You can keep your schidty looking guns too. When it comes time to sell them, you'll likely not get much for them. The difference between mine and yours. Use, does not mean abuse. Learn to take care of your schidt, or not...

How do you really feel about it?! 😇😂

Nice serpentine look!

You’re certainly entitled to your opinion. For me a manners or other quality stick with good paint is much more appealing than the nicest walnut.

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I’ve got a couple of rifles with factory camo and spider web finishes. Never done a rifle myself. My waterfowl guns on the other hand, have rattle can camo jobs. Some pretty good and others hideous.

I've put rattle can & spider web finishes on a number of my rifles and a shotgun.
Two Weatherby Vanguards, .223 and .308 Win.


A Mauser .308 Win.


My Rem 7mm RM 700 in a Weatherby Griptonite stock.


My rem 870 12 ga

I kind of like alternating wider bands of contrasting colors with an overspray using mesh cloth. Easy enough.

Kimber Montana and other synthetic stock rifles may shoot fine, but I'm sick of synthetics. Maybe a result of time in Vietnam and the M-16. I prefer, and am willing to tend to walnut and blued rifles, but not lots available lately.

Krylon Camo...(same rifle with rattle can touch ups over the years...)

Always kinda thought it was funny how much matching expensive modern camo gets hunted from inside a deer blind.
Meanwhile men who hunt and stalk for a living around the globe do so, more often than not, with plaid, tweed, khakis, wool, walnut and blue steel.
To that ends. My favorite non wood rifle over the past wood has been the one I had cerakote.
I call it OJ.
Same pattern as this...