Posted: 1/25/2013 6:45:11 AM EDT
|
My GF came to the conclusion her next AR should not be bold colors but does need to be painted with a camo pattern, Winter Camo. Her logic was great, "if I really need to use this gun then it should not stand out." She came to this on her own. I can only assume 9 years around me, my family and friends has had an effect on her.
So in the interest of talking about something not political or ban related, if any of you guys have pics of your favorite winter camo on a gun or otherwise, please post them. She will never hunt but I do so I could see borrowing this gun 
My intent is to paint it myself but I may look at trying a hydro dip do it yourself if I find a cool pattern I can buy. |
|
The underarmor stuff works really well in all types of winter covered terrain.
I do not know where, except UA, to find the pattern though. Link V OUT |
|
I personally love the look of the Kryptek patterns. The Yeti is a sweet winter style.
http://www.kryptek.com/kryptek-camo-patterns/ http://www.cabelas.com/big-game-kryptek-nivis-jacket.shtml |
|
As someone who hunts yotes up north in the winter, I've got several differant snow-camo outfits.
The one I like best is this one. I have this exact parka, bought it there too, but it's a chocolate brown on white, not black like the pic. Got matching hat, gloves, & bibs too. They had them on closeout sale, spring before last... super cheap, got the whole outfit under $100. I replaced the stock, grip, & heat shield on my DPMS Panther with Magpul stuff in FDE, just recently. When it gets warm enough to some duracoating, I'm going to do this pattern on the parts I took off... then I can put them back on, just for winter yote hunting. 
I also have this "cover-up" uninsulated parka & pants |
|
The pattern I like best for clothes is the new MARPAT snow, but it's impossible to find it anywhere. I use some cheap reversible stuff I got at Fleet Farm a few years ago (white with some grey/brown/black branches). I cut out the no-snow reversible side. I need to sew some ghillie-skriggles on the hood, but I never get around to it.
As for the gun - many of my guns are painted in a multi-cam like pattern/color, I just wrap some gauze on the scope and rifle. It doesn't cover the whole gun, just brakes up the outline. Cheap and easy. |
The easiest way to duracoat a camo finish on a firearm is the "pine straw" method. And IMO, it blends better in the woods than any pattern method. I've done 6 firearms in pine-straw method, and it's awesome. Here's a Ruger 10-22 build I did in duracoat, pine-straw method (this was my very first attempt, too).
I gave it a base coat of OD green. After that set up about an hour, I covered everything under a blanket of pine needles. I then sprayed desert brown through the pine needles, the needles leaving a shadow of base coat underneath them. Do one side at a time, removing needles immediately, letting it set up 15- 30 minutes, then do other side. After everything was done with desert brown, I repeated it with desert tan. When you do this, you must think in reverse. The color of your break-up branches etc, is the base coat. To do a snow camo job, first would be base coat. The snow background (white) is the last color you spray on. For the base coat, I'm going to use parker grey with a little desert brown mixed in (closest color match to tree bark /branches of winter hardwoods trees I can find). Then cover with pine needles or small twigs, and overspray with flat white. The needles & twigs leave "shadows" underneath them, and the shadows are your base coat color. The more white yu want, the less needles/twigs you pile on. Simple. I'd do some "test runs" on cardboard with spray paint first. Duracoat is hard to remove (if you don't like the outcome), and it isn't cheap. I've done hunting chairs, blinds, tree-stands, even five entire duck hunting boats using this method, with krylon camo spray paint. Below is my 2000 Tracker duck boat. It was already OD green, so I could skip the base coat. If using black for shadows, it goes on last. To do the boats, instead of piling needles on, I used the whole 3' pine branch cut fresh from one of my hundreds of trees, and held it up against the boat like a stencil.
|
I got bored the other day, and decided to do a winter camo job on my coyote rifle's furniture, and used krylon in the basement rather than waiting for warm weather and duracoating out in the garage. When winter's over, the stock, grip, and glacier guards will come off, and the Magpul FDE stuff will go back on. Tried to match my hunting jacket/bibs.
|