Camouflaging my Hunters

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Bullfrog

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A few years ago I did a hack spray paint job on my .25 Mrod. In terms of actually camouflaging my gun, it was amazingly effective. But it was ugly as sin. It looked like I gave a few cans of cams spray paint to a child and told them to have at it. So I named the gun "Uglrod" after that. 

I decided to try again after watching an Eric Henderson video that showed how he spray paints his Texans. So I tried it with my Texan .308 SS and my short Flex. I made some mistakes on the Texan, but it still came out passible. My Flex came out much more neat looking. The main difference was that I had an issue with my primer out of the can on the Texan. I was more careful with the Flex to make sure the primer went on smooth. But I'm still happy with both guns:




 
I used a $3 stencil from Hobby Lobby that has zebra striping on one end and leopard spots on the other. I didn’t use the leopard spots on these. I am when I paint the next gun. 

I tried using a homemade cardboard stencil but I wasn’t happy with it. 

The sight on the Flex is a Eotech L3 (a real one not a knock off). It has no magnification, but I still stoot nickle sized groups at 50 yards with it. 
 
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I considered using the palmettos as stencils, but decided against it because I didn’t want to have to plan to paint in reverse, as a solid object overlaid acts as a reverse stencil. A lot of hunters around here like to camo their beater trucks with palmettos and they end up making brown palmettos with green backgrounds instead of green palmettos with brown backgrounds for that reason

I’d love to make a sheet stencil traced with a palmetto frond and to find a proper vibrant but flat green that matches the palmettos so I could make proper palmetto patterns. They are the universal plant here. 
 
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I wasn't happy with the Army Green I used for my greens. It doesn't match the vibrate green that much of Florida's vegetation keeps year-round. Last night at Walmart I found something that looked like it matched the green of a palmetto frond, Rustoleum's "Eden" color. I redid my .308 and here's how it turned out:



I'm going to leave the Flex as is just because it looks so clean. But I'm glad I redid the .308. 
 
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