I paint my Tikka camoflage-

[Tom Kat]

Yes I did! I think this will blend in better than the factory all black look-

 

[Rick in Oregon]

Tom, nice job. If you want to spell it correctly, it's "camouflage".

No biggie, but I know you want to do it right. (Who knew? Most of us have been spelling it wrong forever.)

 

[pdog06]

Nice job! Blends in really well!

I did pretty much the same thing to 2 of my guns recently, for the same reason, not liking the plain black stock. Just a different design and I didn’t do the barrels. Yet.
One was a brand new ruger 17hmr. I camo’d it before I even mounted a scope to it or fired it. It just needed some color.
The other was a Savage 308 build I threw together for bear season. However I already had the stock camo’d for it. It was a spare factory Tupperware I had lying around, and was my test stock before I did the ruger!

 

[alf]

Here's the last one I did, was a Manners plain jane tan to begin with.

I painted it 1st with flat black, then overlayed shelf liner & spritzed it with silver to mimic carbon fiber, then sponged on the brown & tan. Either the brown wasn't dark enough, or the tan wasn't light enough for better contrast, oh well....

 

[SVT_Tactical]

One I Duracoated Kuiu Camo for a buddy who shoots on the wrong side.

 

[Tom Kat]

So tonight I did a quick test. The action screws were not all that tight and I torqued them to factory spec of 30 inch lbs. This gun and load (and shooter!) have done better than this in the past and I bet I get it doing better than this.

 

[Lefty2506]

I rattle canned a couple of rifles back in 2009 and put together a tutorial on it. I can't figure out how to attach the entire document, so I'll try to capture a few pictures that pretty much shows how I did it.

I made a stencil out of some twigs from an evergreen bush and some scrap lumber. Its the only good use I've ever found for those darn bushes (they are all gone now).



Painted stripes after taping off everything that I didn't want painted



Applied contrasting colors over the stencil.




Done with the tape removed.



After going for a walk in the snow, and shooting a doe, I leaned it up against a tree and lost it. I knew where I shot from, and where the tree was from that spot that I leaned it against, but I had to backtrack my footprints in the snow to actually find it.

 

[Rick in Oregon]

Lefty, if you had to 'hunt' for that rifle leaning against a tree, I'd say you did quite the good job of it!
Looks good, well done sir!

 

[209jones]

I have a 10ft wood pram out back that was suffering a bit on the finish, 8 yrs old now. Had a whack of camo paint around, found one of the plastic leaf pattern thingys in one box and went to town on the pram with it. Fun making like a regular Rembrandt on it. I do have a Tikka stock I could spruce up a bit, good project for when it warms up in 6 mos or so.