Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Painted rifle stocks, what is your preference of color and design?

I am going to invest in a composite stock that will come in the raw and need to be painted or coated. Looking for preferred options, for material used, color, and patterns. Being a wood stock guy, I want this to be conservative, no camo, no colors other than natural earth tones, basically look similar to a wood stock or similar.

Looking for examples and experiences in this area.

Well, wtf, don't they paint these fabulous plastic?? stocks such that the paint doesn't flake off. Eh?

Well, wtf, don't they paint these fabulous plastic?? stocks such that the paint doesn't flake off. Eh?

Contact JohnBoy. He's the only person I let paint my stocks.

i would probably do brown with black webbing or speckles

Here is a couple I painted. Of course they would be my preference.

Sorry about the camo.

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Faux bois is what you're talking about. I used to do a bunch of work like this, but I never did it with a gun stock. I used to take scrap wood or painted wood or even particle board and put a faux wood grain texture on it. It was easy to do, but the trick would be finding the right paint.

You start with a flat paint. I remember a light brown for walnut finish. I used a pumpkin orange for mahogany. Once that was dry, I used a glaze. Raw umbre was one of them-- I think for walnut. Here's where the trick comes in. First you paint it on, and then go back and run a stiff brush over it and make the grain. As you remove the glaze, the underlying flat coat comes through. Finish with polyurethane.

There are youtubes now that teach this. Remarkably, I learned from my father. Dad was by no means an artist, but Mom found some mauled-up wood furniture and he spent the winter one year down in the basement painting the stuff up for my bedroom. I still have all the pieces scattered throughout the house, and the finish on most of them is still quite good. When I went off on my own, I found the technique was great for junk furniture, and once my friends saw it, I did a bunch of it for them.

I've used Krylon Fusion on several shotguns and camo'd them up for turkey hunting. Krylon Fusion is the shizz. After painting a base coat (usually desert tan) I take sprigs of cedar and use them as a stencil and just spray splotches. I work in front of a box fan, sucking the air off the work surface. It causes the paint to dry quickly. I can spritz on a few splotches, change cedar sprigs and paint can, and spray on a few more. I keep doing this until I have layer-upon-layer of these and the pattern looks like you could fall into it.

Bubbba Paints His Turkey Gun

Not a Fan of Camo rifles and spider webs, the critters don't know what color gun you killed them with. Rio7

You can paint it like a custom car or a WW-II jeep. Mine are flat rattle can, they have nicks and scars from riding in a scabbard or strapped to the back of my hunting MC. If they get too scarred up I can hit them with another coat. The barrels have camo gaffer tape on them also.

There are some that can paint it to look like highly figured wood if that is what your looking for.

Here's a couple I've done. The Mini Mark X is a wood stock that was pretty beat.

Brown with black speckles by McM.

Are you wanting something other than a rattle can job?

I assume it's in the raw, not primed?

Any idea if it has even been sanded yet?

Are you opposed to a dip job? If not they make film in wood grain patterns. Then the dipper can shoot a coat of clear on the film giving you matte, gloss or a satin finish.

See my post for more.....

I am going to have it professionally done. Tell me more about this dip job process. Can you point me to a place that does this?

EdM, I am admiring the work done on this rifle. The barrel work is excellent. Can we see a pic of the complete rifle?

Tarjac is who I have used, excellent work.

Same as the camo jobs you see on a lot of shotguns.

YouTube hydrodipping.

Mornin, google hydro dipping or water transfer. Good luck picking a pattern, it's been 2yrs looking & I still haven't chose the pattern yet!!! Leaning toward diamond deck plate or riveted pieces of steel??? There in a lite grey colour which I think woul be a good winter match for my coyote gun. Good luck. GWPGUY 🐾👣🇨🇦

The applicator can change the color of the pattern by applying a different colored primer than normal for the pattern.