To paint or not to paint

[shoot'n hogs]

I have a new sendero 300rum and I want to know if I am crazy for wanting to paint it.  I have all the equipment necessary, I paint model for a hobby.  Just wanting to throw some camo on the stock, barrel, and scope.  I am just afraid cause it is new ($1800 worth of new).  Thanks

[Lawdog]

shoot'n hogs,

I wouldn't, not even on a Remington.   :?   For me if it isn't blued and wood(walnut preferred) it doesn't come home.  Lawdog
 

[Questor]

I don't believe that model has checkering on its stock, so if you don't like it, you can always strip off the camo, then refinish it with clear. Another way to look at it is that since you've got $1800 in it already, you may as well go the extra mile and fix it up so you get it just the way you like it.

[Sigma]

I'm with Lawdog. If it's not Walnut and blue, it doesn't come in the house. But that aside, not to put down your capabilities - with the best of intentions you could end up with something that really doesn't look like you intended it to. In the end, the possibility of stripping off the camo and putting on a clear coat won't make the rifle any better....so I say leave it like it is.

Regards

[Buckfever]

Whe with all due respect Shoot N Hogs your starting to scare me!  I think what you are finding here is the Wood and Blue crowd will not like it.  Hey maybe the function means everything crowd might.  Like my Grandpa use to say it's just an my opinion there just like butt holes everbody has got one...

Buckfever

[oneshotonekill]

Its your rig so if you want it dressed in camo then have at her.  It sounds like you have enough experience with painting.  The only way I've seen the 300RUN sendero is in the laminate stock.  I would think the paint would strip off that stock pretty easily.  Getting it off the barrel and action could be a little harder if you should happen to change your mind.  If your afraid to make a leap that big on a new rifle have you considered other (less permanent) camo finishes like the vinal shrink wrap stuff (I think they call it snake skin) or a tape kit?  They would be easier to remove if you weren't happy with the results.

[MI VHNTR]

shoot'n hogs, this is a no brainer for me. I've put DuraCoat on my 2 new Remington Model 7s, a new Remington 597 and a new Springfield Loaded this year. I figure that they are mine and I'll have them the way that I want them. I've never been a blued/wood fan anyway.   MI VHNTR

[Zachary]

I had someone paint my McMillan stock, but I've never had my barrels or actions painted.  I don't see the harm, although I would never do it personally myself.

Zachary

[MGMorden]

I don't know.   I built models too and though I can to a great job on a Spitfire, I just don't think that such a paint job would look nice on a firearm.  If you want it camo'd purely for the looks of it, I know that the local gunshop here will apply any of the popular patterns (Mossy Oak, Realtree, Advantage, etc) to a gun for $180.  They're using the same stuff they use at the factory to camo guns.  That'd probably end up looking a lot better.

Myself though, I'm a blue/wood guy.  Only gun I own that isn't that way is a Remington 870 Express that I use for duck hunting (it's got a Wetlands pattern stock set and is coated in teflon or something).

[vernonp]

If your Sendero has the same stock as the others I have seen. I like the looks of that stock better than any, If Remington ever brought out a 270 or similar caliber at about 7 lbs, with that same stock on it I would buy it, But that is me and not you, If I wanted to paint it I would paint it.----------vernonp

[jvs]

I got an idea, why don't you go buy another one with a Camo Synthetic stock and Anodized barrel.  That way you can sell the one you don't like, or you can keep both.

You never have too many guns you know.

[ms]

DON'T DO IT! DON'T DO IT! :wink:

[Camp Cook]

Check out some of the sniper sights most of them paint the entire rifle including the scopes. In the past I have found threads on how they do their paint jobs as well.
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