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Posted: 5/12/2015 9:17:38 PM EDT
I've seen pix of the use of burlap wrapped bolt rifles in WWI & II, plus Korea. Obligatory pix of CCCP usage:
But it never was used that much. When I was in from 1978-1984, it was never mentioned. I get the point that it could bind up the charging handle on the AR15 pattern weapons. Assume for this discussion that a relatively cheap side charging upper is available for the AR15 pattern rifle so the buttstock could be wrapped. It would appear that it could provide some camouflage due to it concealing the definitive lines of a weapon plus would be a textured nonstandard surface from what is normally expected from hard black plastic & parkerized steel. Does anyone have any input either positive/negative on its use with modern rifles? BTDT stories, pix and linkage would be appreciated. * When I was googling this, I ran across a lot of references to this being a "Day Z" mod. I never heard of "Day Z" before I started looking into this. |
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Posted: 5/13/2015 5:13:45 AM EDT
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 My good friend carried this in Afghanistan. I helped cut up sandbags and he wrapped and tied. He was our DM and was a Pig from another unit. It was effective at breaking up the outline and making it stand out less than a long black rifle. |
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Posted: 5/13/2015 5:14:26 AM EDT
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 And one more. |
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Posted: 5/13/2015 12:36:23 PM EDT
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Our DMs used pieces of their ghillies...which is essentially the same thing.
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Posted: 5/13/2015 1:08:05 PM EDT
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Looks better than some of the camo paint jobs I see on this forum, a lot easier to take off as well.
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Posted: 5/13/2015 5:15:34 PM EDT
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Our DMs used pieces of their ghillies...which is essentially the same thing. Do you have any pix of what they did? |
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Posted: 5/13/2015 5:16:08 PM EDT
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Looks better than some of the camo paint jobs I see on this forum, a lot easier to take off as well. |
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Posted: 5/13/2015 5:27:48 PM EDT
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It is rather scratchy and dusty. You would be better served with something like camo tape, I believe McNett is the brand name? Even comes in multicam if that's your preferred camo.
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Posted: 5/13/2015 9:34:13 PM EDT
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I use McNett for my hunting rigs...inexpensive and you can reuse them.
I've also done sponge camo, which I like a lot. I'm just not a fan of anything black...if you think black is so awesome look at a black firearm with NV. There are companies that offer a ghillie for rifles...that's what I'll be getting with my ghillie...no sense in being camo'd up and leaving my rifle exposed. |
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Posted: 5/13/2015 11:04:57 PM EDT
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I bought some medical gauze in a roll. I unraveled it and did light coats of olive, sand, brown spray paint. I then wrapped it and sewed the ends where needed. Lightweight and easy to take off. It breaks up the outline pretty good.
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Posted: 5/14/2015 3:09:17 AM EDT
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Do you have any pix of what they did? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Our DMs used pieces of their ghillies...which is essentially the same thing. Do you have any pix of what they did? No pix, but it ended up looking pretty much like the pix Gunslinger posted. |
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Posted: 5/14/2015 5:58:11 AM EDT
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I saw burlap rolls at Hobby Lobby in varying widths and thought of doing something like this to my AK, but was worried about jamming something up. Or the gas tube catching the burlap on fire
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Posted: 5/14/2015 8:19:05 PM EDT
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I bought a roll of reusable Multicam gun tape/wrap off Amazon for a few bucks. Works well, and you don't have to deal with burlap. As evidenced in the above pictures, painting the gun beneath the camo wrap will greatly enhance its effectiveness.
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Posted: 5/14/2015 10:45:51 PM EDT
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It is rather scratchy and dusty. You would be better served with something like camo tape, I believe McNett is the brand name? Even comes in multicam if that's your preferred camo. Midway USA has it Personal preference is for the Kryptek Highlander. 
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Posted: 5/20/2015 11:59:45 AM EDT
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I use McNett tape on the barrel of my stainless bolt rifle when hunting.
The light color of stainless really stand out early in the morning before the sun comes up or in the evening after sun sets...which are the best hunting times of the day. Black is not that bad but it does standout when the sun is up. |
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Posted: 5/21/2015 2:36:53 PM EDT
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Be careful with any of that tape...
Most kinds leave residue that you may have to acetone to remove. It will also trap moisture next to the steel if it's on a steel (especially blued steel) surface. Here in LA it has contributed to many a rusty weapon. Personally, I think camo paint and a couple burlap/fabric "fuzzies" to break-up the profile are best, so long as the materiel doesn't snag your gear, vegetation, nor interfere with handling in any way. |
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Posted: 5/21/2015 9:48:57 PM EDT
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Be careful with any of that tape... Most kinds leave residue that you may have to acetone to remove. It will also trap moisture next to the steel if it's on a steel (especially blued steel) surface. Here in LA it has contributed to many a rusty weapon. Personally, I think camo paint and a couple burlap/fabric "fuzzies" to break-up the profile are best, so long as the materiel doesn't snag your gear, vegetation, nor interfere with handling in any way. The tape pictured above is non-adhesive, but the caution against leaving it on for extended periods lest it trap moisture is a valid concern. I'm with you: I prefer a quick paint job to any tape wrap. |
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Posted: 5/27/2015 2:44:45 AM EDT
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The tape doesn't leave residue but visually it doesn't work anywhere near as well as a burlap wrap as it still has the very distinctive shape of a gun covered in tape. Lemme look around I still have my burlap strip I used. I'll post some pix.
The idea with burlap is that you wrap it in a way so that it overlaps a little and uses the frayed edges to break up the very clean horizontally linear shape of the gun barrel. I just used bout a 3" wide strip about 3 ' long that was left over scrap from building a ghillie suit. Just make sure you don't wrap the muzzle or you can catch it on fire, and don't wrap the functioning parts like the ejection port, or the moving portion of the oprod/charging handle on an M14. |
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Posted: 5/31/2015 8:04:55 AM EDT
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Cut up a cheap leafy suit from Wal-Mart or cut up one of those large leafy pre-cut camo blind making materials. Use small black zip-ties.
Lighter than burlap and will air dry quicker if wet... |
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Posted: 5/31/2015 10:57:43 AM EDT
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Cut up a cheap leafy suit from Wal-Mart or cut up one of those large leafy pre-cut camo blind making materials. Use small black zip-ties. Lighter than burlap and will air dry quicker if wet... I was just about to suggest this. Wet material in prolonged contact with firearms' finishes are not a recipe for success. |
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