First painting attempt on hunting gun.

[Snakum]

Used the new Camo rattle cans from Wally World and Krylon Matte Clear on my hunting gun, a Remington 870 Tactical. Unfortunately the colors aren't showing well with this camera and lighting.

I laid on five light coats of Camo Tan (FDE), then olive into my home made stencils, the brown, the stripes of black here and there. Each coat was dry in ten minutes, but I let it 'cure' over a heater for a night then hit it with five coats of matte clear. Let the matte clear cure over night on the heater. The finish is hard as a rock and is not affected by heat or bore cleaner or solvent so far. Very nice.

The patterns are quite sparse but I'm going to add more olive, brown and black patterns to it and hit it with the matte again. I just wanted to see how easy it was to do. And it is easy.

 

[oneounceload]

looks nice, but why do you have a breacher on a hunting gun? Planning on knocking down the doors on the duck blind?

 

[Girodin]

Ghost rings, side saddle, extended mag tube, breaching stand off device, what are you hunting?

 

[Dave McCracken]

'Cept for the breacher thing, that looks like a good slug shooter. And I'd bench it with the breacher just to see what it did with a few of the slugs here..

Venison Acquisition Tools oft look a little strange.

Nice paint job. Good luck with it.....

 

[Snakum]

The breacher came on it and I haven't settled on a replacement yet. It patterns buck like crap, much worse than my 870 TALO cyl bore for some oddball reason. So, it's getting a ported Modified choke of some kind, asap. Till then, I use the breacher stab people in the face at the range when they tick me off. It's very effective.

Also, it shoots slugs about 12" high with a standard ghost ring sight picture (front XS bead in the center of the ring) and there's no elevation adjustment for that. Gotta grind the ring base down a bit to make it correct.

Other than that, it's pretty sweet. Nice balance and feel, very smooth action. Fast on target.

 

[janobles14]

well i for one dig it! looks great! are your shells upside down?

 

[DRYHUMOR]

Looks good. Try some model paint if you want to do a little freehand custom painting. Lot more color choices.

 

[CajunBass]

Nice looking gun. A little more "desert tan" look than I like, but you did a good job it looks like.

I've never seen an open choke gun that did shoot buckshot worth a hoot in spite of what I read experts say. If you want to shoot buckshot, get a choked barrel. I've always found that modified chokes work best for me, but something else may for your choice of shot size. I know a lot of people who use full choke and 000 buck and kill deer every year.

The shotgun I use for buckshot today, I got on sale years ago when the previous owner bought it back because he said the slug barrel didn't shoot buckshot. No kidding? The modified barrel, that came with the gun, which he never tried, shoots it just fine. I don't know how many deer I've killed with it.

I painted mine a long time ago too.

 

[Snakum]

I saw that picture when I was researching painting mine. A consumate hunting gun. I'm going to add more patterns to mine to break it up a bit more.

The weird thing I'm learning about shotguns is there is no rhyme nor reason to patterns. My non-choked cylinder bore TALO 870 shoots awesome 00 patterns with Remington 2 3/4" 00 buck from as far away as 30 yards. But the Tactical with an IC breaching choke sprays all over the place. The choked tactical can't hold 80% in a 20" circle past 10 yards. The total opposite of what you'd expect. So it's getting a ported, modified choke.

Putting a choke in and filing some of the height off the XS ghost ring will make it perfect. I can't believe Remington and XS didn't provide for full elevation adjustment of the ghost ring sights.

 

[CajunBass]

I shoot Number 1 buck in mine. Nothing but. When I first got it, I didn't know squat about patterning a gun, but my Grandfather used No 1, and that was good enough for me. I did pace off 40 steps, probably a bit over 30 yards and put 17 out of 24 (3" shell) No 1 buckshot into the bottom of a bushel basket (We were REAL country. ). A few of the others hit the outside of the basket. That was good enough for me. I never tried anything else. It's worked plenty good enough on deer over the years.

I did the camo job with some stuff called "bowdull." It's faded over the years (30 or so) and has chipped and rubbed through in a few places, but it still does the job.

The gun came with a rifle sight, smoothbore, slug barrel, which I painted but don't think I've ever fired a shell through. I did have a sling on it at one time. I drilled a hole in the stock for a QD swivel, then used a radiator clamp to attach the other end to the magazine tube. A little electrical tape and that was supposed to be a "temporary" fix. It worked well enough that the leather sling wore out before I ever got around to doing something permanent.

 

[jakk280rem]

i have the non rifle sighted version of the same gun. i bought it because of its ability to take interchangable rem chokes. i highly recommend the briley dove duster non ported choke for buckshot. it's a lm and puts 8 out of 9 pellets in a 12" circle at 20yds. i havn't tried it with slugs yet. love the paint job.

 

[tactikel]

Heck of a nice camo job! You have more guts than I do-taking spray paint to a gun. The moving parts seem to have been nicely masked off, is there any change in how the shotgun handles? (slippery, stiff action).
BTW dont the six shiney shells on the carrier kind of negate the stealthyness of the camo?

 

[Snakum]

I'm going to paint all my shells next.

(No change to the feel or action. I took it apart and masked everything well.)

 

[jhuwa]

well done!

 

[Mandolin]

Nice job.IMHO, try to avoid the desert tan, it makes it look too toy-like. I saw a PGO shotgun at the last gunshow in desert cammo, it looked just like a toy with the flat desert cammo

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

Very nice paint job man. I hope your venison tastes delicious

 

[Marty183]

I like it...Thanks for posting.

 

[Snakum]

I've found that smaller areas o dark really break up the outline, making it less "gun" when viewed in the brush, as opposed to other more dense patterns. I got it sighted in and the action is smoothing out nicely. And I have a choke on the way to tighten the 00 patterns.

Now if I could just scare up a deer or two to try it out on. Four hours out today and nothing. When I don't have a gun I couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a whitetail in this part of NC. But grab a weapon and try to be very quiet and doe-smelly and they're ghosts.