My Savage 110 in full camo.

[Unruely]

Well I finally got the nerve up to camo paint of of my Savage rifles. This one is a 10FP-LE2, 308. These are the best pics I could get, everything outside is covered in a layer of ICE. I used Krylon Camo paint and covered that in Aluma-hyde(?) epoxy matte clear. Everything worked great except the clear, it dried a high gloss when it says it is matte. I have be rubbing it down some to get rid of the shine, slowly but surely it is getting duller. I still have to darken up the inside of the extension tube. Some of the shine in these pics is from the flash, it sucks when its 4pm and to dark for decent photos without using a flash..
Before: It is the black one in the foreground.

After:






Martin

 

[SpookyPistolero]

I dig it, that looks very sharp. Congrats!

How's it shoot?

 

[Roudy]

Good job Unruely

Looks like a fine jon of camo to me. You might want to consider attaching a lanyard to it in case you drop it in the field. Might be pretty hard to find!

 

[Unruely]

So far it has been shooting great. I still need to do some fine tuning and spend some more time shooting it, as soon as it warms up some..

Martin

 

[MiniZ]

Great job!

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Hey, I see a couple of rifles in the first photo, but where are they in the rest of the pics?

...Oh, wait, there it is.

Good job!

 

[Mesa]

I paid $150 to have mine painted camo with Duracoat and yours looks better! You really did a good job on that mate.

Mesa

 

[cz75bdneos22]

where did the rifle go? !!! i can barely see...oh, wait !! j/k that is one helluva job you did there..i like it!

 

[roscoe]

The red dot on your safety will give you away to counter-sniper teams. You gotta watch out for that.

 

[adaman04]

If I said that was a "nice job" it would be an insult. That is probably one of the best looking camo jobs I have ever seen. As I always ask...HOW THE HECK DID YOU DO IT? Step by step idiot-proof instructions please. I don't want to miss anything. TEACH ME, TEACH ME, TEACH ME!

 

[mrrev]

Awesome!!!
What scope do you have there???

 

[Unruely]

It was very scary to get started, but once I got rolling it was hard to stop.. I used 4 colors, (black, tan, brown, od green) Krylon Camo spray cans. I used painters tape and masked ofF random areaas all over the rifle to be used as shadows later. I then wrapped the rifle with "Jute" twine (most of the dark lines you see). I started spraying vertial bars with the brown paint, then sprayed the edges with tan. I then used leaves ,vines, and grasses as masks and started spraying the od green in small spots along with the brown and some tan. I then removed all the tape and twine, then rewrapped it with twine again and continued to spray, mainly with od green over the masks. Keep going until it was looking like I wanted.

The scope is a lost cost one I am testing. It is 6-24x50mm lit-reticule side paralex adjustment. so far it has held up great. I have a similar one on the
.300 being tested also.

Martin