Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Anyone Else Hydrodipping Their Rifles?

Hydrodipped my Tikka T3 Lite with the Kuiu Vias camo pattern. I really like the results. I used www.reaperprecision.com for the work.

Anyone else dipping their rifles?

That turned out nice. I have several on their way to my local place. Going with Kryptek highlander

<sniff> <sniff>

I smell self-promotion. A small Fort Collins based company no one has ever heard of being promoted, with a link, by a poster out of Fort Collins?

Coincidence, I'm sure {sarcasm font needed}.

4ager, I went local to save on shipping. So, I don't have a dog in the fight. My second choice was www.hydro-dip.com. Read into it what you want.

Feel better now, super sleuth?

Hehe

I did one once and it was a total disaster. It wasn't the product but the application. I picked it from their pattern list and they used a different base color than the one pictured. I called to complain about it and the guy I had been dealing with had just quit. I got a refund but had to go the CC dispute route.

Avoid this place: thedipmaster.com

You, Sir, are suspicious. There's no state given in his location - it could be a "Fort Collins" anywhere.

Why, there's 27 different towns named "Fort Collins" in Ohio alone.

Is there some practical purpose for dipping, or is it just a bling-thing?

Bling

Depends on how badly you hate ugly, black tupperware stocks.

I dipped a Howa once, Bell & Carlson's Mossy Oak. Liked the look of the stock afterwards. Liked the looks of the gun a whole lot better once I put a decent scope on it.





Last couple I did were just spraypainted with Krylon.

What was the cost.

No more so than camo clothing.

I've done a couple I haven't seen a hydro dip that holds up for [bleep] yet. I'd sure like to find one as they look neat when your first get them back!

Had a couple done up.



Maybe even less functional than camo clothing, but that said I don't wear much camo.

More or less customize them and Kimber standard syntethic stocks look fugly in their battleship gray.



Oh and just like putting a highperformance sticker on Honda Civic gives it an extra .25HP the hydrodip gets ya about another 30 fps on any bullet you shoot

My daughter wanted a muddy girl pink camo gun. I wanted to give her the one she's been using to slay critters with for the past couple years. Savage wanted almost $200 for a pink camo stock, but I found a guy farely local that would dip mine for $50. My little girl was so happy to see it under the christmas tree, and even happier when I told her it was the one she'd been using. Looks great now, don't know how it will hold up. If it gets too rough, I'll have it dipped again.

I didn't care for the black plastic Tikka stock. So I wanted to make a change. I like the look of the Vias camo pattern and it was available to dip. I paid $125, which included the dip, Cerakoting the sling studs and 4 coats of clear flat coat.

Kuiu Verde. Had the applicator put Shark Grip in the clear coat. Only 2 hours in the field this year. Need to get out more to test durability and grip in the rain.

Reaper Black "Skull-Flage"