looking to see if anyone cares to share ways they have seen rifles individualized or adorned.
I started thinking about this after seeing a fellow shooters rifle with a mini dreamcatcher attached to forearm.
Anyone mess around with feathers, fur, or something else?

I have a leather recoil pad on my 1894 if that counts as adornment.

Oh yea,,,, it has an aperture sight and a fiber front bead too.

saw a Winchester 54 at a gun show that was interesting. On the stock, a previous owner had carved words of various animals the rifle had taken, and the quantity of each animal, with slash marks. It had whitetail, mule deer, caribou, moose, bear and a couple others. Kind of fascinating, but the rifle was over priced, and clearly hunted hard.

Perhaps adornment was a poor choice of words.
Maybe personalization is better.

One shooter had "smiley face" stickers on the end of his magazine tubes.

Another has his last name on a label placed on the fore-end cap.

I jokingly told my nephew I thought a pine tree air freshener dangling from the mag tube would be nice.
He said that would help, but only if he was down wind.

Thinking about wrapping the lever with some buckskin I had tanned from a whitetail.

I've got a piece of braided buckskin about five inches long on the saddle ring on my 30-30 Trapper.
Looks cool but it gets in the way when working the action while the rifle is shouldered.

Once owned a pre-64 Winchester 94, that the previous owner had carved stick men and game heads into the stock.

Bought it cheap, and tried to rasp out all his "carvings" but they were too deep.

Ended up buying a replacement stock.

Virgil B.

A small jay feather tied with light line to the front barrel band. You could say it was to remind you about the wind when shooting long.

There are 5 small brass pins in a row, in the heel of my old Husqvarna 146, 9.3 x 57. And a name place in the RH side of the stock. Was that way when I got it. And no, the pins are t crack reenforcement pins!

Its not "personalized" per se, but it was really fancy....

Scheels Eau Claire had a Weatherby Crown Custom in .240 Wby in their case last weekend. Wanted $7k+ for it!

Closest otherwise to adornment is Dad had his post-64 receiver stripped and polished, and the rest of the metalwork browned.

here in Hawaii some gun owners like to put decals on their gun stocks - slogans, rock stars, fish? etc. I am working on a win m94 flat band 30-30 with a chain like carving next to the butt plate- too deep to rasp out. the last owner traded a 22 for this gun and when it wouldn't feed (loose cartridge guide) and couldn't get his 22 back - he painted it red and planted in in the garden as an ornament. a long term project for me..... Mel

http://www.levergunleather.com/
Check out the stock wraps and cheek pads. Getting a built up cheek pad for the BLR for a better cheek weld looking through the scope.

Blue electricians tape around the muzzle and a wrap or 2 on the scope seems popular here.

This at a PCCLA match yesterday.

Rust

I bought a 1960s vintage Remington 760 that had been exported to Sweden and returned to the U.S. via Simpson, LTD. The Swedish owner put his elk/moose permit stickers on the stock. Interesting, but not my cup of tea, so I bought a replacement set of wood on eBay.

A man who I hunted with as a kid, hammered a brass bard into the right side of the stock of his Remington 141 in 32 Remington. I thought that it was kind of cool, but my Father explained the decrease in trade/sale value down the road, so I have never adopted this means of keeping track of kills.

Typical squarehead, government permissions as an aesthetic.

I did the leather wrap on my mod 92 25/20 more for fell than looks but it does look good. Previous owner carved his entails in the stock with a pocket knife and did a really bad job of it.. Probably drunk....

have seen 99 savage with a crackerjack compass inlet into the butt , right where it hit my collar bone.
bought a savage 110 with a "carved?" stock. what was supposed to be a squirrel looked like the old "tunnel rat" tattoo on my left arm! only with twice the paunch! the other side had a "deer?" that looked more like a giraffe with a 6x6 rack.

None of you are gonna fess up to the skull and crossbones on your stocks?

heck Hawk! I thought that was standard on all stocks, required by the .gov. or at least mad mothers or some such.

Bought a well used Savage 1895 in Rapid City a few years ago. It has a row of small notches on one side of the forearm, and a few larger notches on the other. Probably a lot of good stories, but gone forever.