What's the best way to convert a synthetic black shotgun to camo? I'm hesitant to just use a rattle can, although I painted a couple of bows when I was younger with rattle can paints. They turned out pretty good but I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions? This isn't a family heirloom type gun, sxp winchester pump gun.

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I did an old shotgun that was in bad cosmetic shape with camo spray paints and it came out looking pretty good. I use leaves from the yard to add a more "professional" look.

I camo'd my bow with rattle cans and then went over it with car rubbing compound to remove the shine. Came out spectacular..

I rattlecanned my stoeger, used rubber bands and stickers for stencils. Came out ok. It's lasted about 6 years before starting to chip

figure out everything you do not want paint on like sights ejection port , loading port , trigger , plug your barrel with an ear plug or wad of tape, ect...
mask all that off with tape
de-grease with alcohol , brake clean , acetone , just something to get the oil off

don't paint on a cold day outside you want above 60

so here is the thing you are making a decision to have a painted gun or leave it alone , anything can be stripped and re-painted with some air craft paint stripper and a warm day

if you didn't go too heavy you can just paint over the top

practice on something else first

watch a bunch of you tube videos so you can see different peoples technique

at the end of the day it is not rocket science , it is breaking up a outline

rustoleum or krylon they both make camo colors flat paint

remember you are deciding painted gun or leave it alone you can always re-do it if you don't like your first attempt

some people take the gun apart and do individual components but , that can be harder to match your pattern.

Get a vinyl wrap kit

Honestly rattle canning is super easy. Just get paint made for those type applications . Rust-Oleum has a camo paint deal that's a lil on the expensive side for spray paint but it all matte with next to no shine and works amazing! Just that a few minutes and wipe off any oil in the metal parts. Lil acatone on a rag is all you need . O and making tape. If anything is really difficult for a basic rattle can job it's making off everything properly. Still roll of making tape and a lil exaco knife and you looking at like 10-15min.

I would advise tying your gun up or prop it like this somehow though. Makes it easier


Also when you do you base coat don't put it on thick in one go. Give it a light first coat let it dry a good bit then another one or two. Then add your break up colors.

Getting the base coat can be a lil pain though . Id go with whatever the most prominent color in you area is .

As far as you break up. You can lay gras and stuff on it and get some cool designs or buy reusable stencils...but really a few swipes of different colors can work pretty good too.

This one was with grass and some twigs to make the pattern I've trh base coat


But these two where just streaked over the base coat

Use camo gun tape you can get it at Walmart for cheap and if you decide you don’t like it anymore you can take it off and it leaves no residue

You can get super customize with you pair job to try and perfectly match stuff buuut olive drab green , some kinda tan and black can do a lot

Hydro dip

I rattle can all my using guns these days.

Just remember, 90% of a good paint job is in the prep work.

Bought this gun painted

I hydro dipped a couple of my cheaper synthetic rimfire stocks with nothing more than a trough full of water and some rattle cans. Will they win any awards, nope. Do they look better and more camo than the plain black, yup!




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Thanks for all the advice guys!

Rattle can it, don't be shy. I just remove the bolt, or shut the dust cover on an AR, tape off a few things (safety, trigger, sights) and paint away

I have a savage 62 .22 lr that bought new when I was 18 for $89.00 @ Walmart. My first 4473 bought gun. it's seen rough use now for 26 years. no blue on the barrel broken front sight( one of the boys knocked it over onto a rock when i was skinning squirrel years back) cheap stock is cracked up and but Plate is broken. I'm thinking it may need a paint job. But I'm not sure I want the paint the vx 3 that's on it to match the gun since I have been known to mobmve scopes around. Yes I have a $500 scope of a cheap beater like that.

Wire mesh for the “snake skin” look

then take the scope off and mask the scope mount put it back on when done

not an issue