Best way to camo a gun

[shaman]

I found the old article I wrote back in '09. I was meaning to put this up on the weblog and forgot about it:

Bubba Paints his Turkey Gun

Do you want to keep your shotgun black? Natural wood/blued?

My suggestion is to look carefully at the resale value. In the case of all the guns I've "bubba'd" were not worth spit to begin with. If you have blown several hundred dollars on a prime piece of turkey hardware, the last thing you want to do is get it near a can of spray paint. However, think of what I've managed to do to a cheap shotgun-- nothing worse can happen to it. I can take it out and bang it around for 30 years and if there's a scrape or a bit of rust, all I have to do is hit it with some sand paper and get out the spray paint.

With SuperCore's gun, he brought me a rat-bag Mossy with a pistol grip and a riot barrel. We found some cheap wood and a barrel on Ebay and put it all together into a nice gun. The stock was all beat up, but it only cost us $20.

Behind all this is my proposition is that turkey hunting is the one place where a cheap shotgun makes sense. If it does the job that's all that counts.

[Steve_In]

how many use guns that are not camo? how much difference do you think it makes?

I hunt with a plain stock and somewhat dull finished browned barrels. When you are in the shade I doubt it makes any difference. When you are walking in the sun is where it would be more visible because of reflections, expecially at a distance. When you are facing a turkey there is very little surface exposed. For what some of the comercial dip jobs cost it would seem to make sense to trade/sell and buy new.

[ilhunter]

try using MossyOak Graphics. For about $30 you can get anybrand of there camo and it adheres really well to you gun, can even be removed. I got this more my 870 and love it.

[eddie234]

Sell it and just get one already in camo. Or just buy a new one

[spursnbeards]

how many use guns that are not camo? how much difference do you think it makes?

I hunt with mainly camo guns, but I hunt a good bit with a beretta 390 20 gauge that is black and have not had a bird spook. Strange , I thought the black gun would be an issue but I have harvested allot of birds with the gun with out being seen.