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Camo job on my AR-15

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Got the nerve up this weekend to take off the camo tape and do a sponge job on my coyote gun. It was alot easier to do than I thought.

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Looks good.....dont lay it down in the grass, you might not find it again.

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Looks great, mind sharing how you did it, type of sponges, paint, etc...

 

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Very cool! I love it! I have been wanting to do a camo paint job on one of my rifles and was going to start a post for suggestions on how to go about it.

 

 

-Tracy

 

 

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Thanks for the compliments I am real happy how it came out. It is pretty simple I first cleand the entire rifle with acetone to get off all the oil and stickem left from the camo tape I had on it. Then taped off the things I didn't want paint on like the power adjustment on scope, and scope lenses. Next I took off the grip and trigger. The grip because I didn't know if the paint would work well on the Ergo grip which is rubber.

 

Next I painted the entire gun with Rustoleum Camo spay paint from The Depot it comes in four colors that I could find. The first coat was khaki I hit it a couple times because I didn't use a primer( I have read where guys use a self etching primer first but it really doesn't seem necessary) Next I used the dark green in a candy cane stripe pattern on the rifle. Let dry and then used a real sea sponge and dipped it in the lite green and dabbed it on the dark green and khaki. Next was the dark brown this I did not use as heavy. Third I used the khaki and dark green to blend everything together. Last step was to apply a krylon matte finish to help protect.

 

Hope this helps. As I read somewhere else the hard part is getting up the nerve to push the button for the first time.

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Looks good Josh! What kind of paint did you use?

Bucky if you want to do your gun up I have plenty of paint left but it will cost you in hides next season ;)

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hard part is getting up the nerve to push the button your not kidding wow

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