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How To Camouflage Paint Your Rifle By Greg Ballard
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<blockquote data-quote="ARPredatorHunters" data-source="post: 447132" data-attributes="member: 10954"><p>There is really nothing that different with the rest of the bolt action rifle that is done than it is with the gas gun, but with the bolt part of the rifle, paint like Krylon is generally going to be too thick to put onto the bolt body itself as the tight tolerance on the action rails will just scrape the paint back off, if you can even get the bolt to close with the layers of paint on it. This even occurs many times with thinner coatings like DuraCoat. On many bolts I end up media blasting the bolt body to a dull gray matte finish and then I only clear coat it. I think the better option for the bolt body is to have it nitrided. CeraKote can also work where others can't if it is put on very thin. You can paint the hammer shrouds and bolt itself without many issues. </p><p></p><p>I tape off the recoil lug and also do not put paint onto the inside surface of the stock as many times the stock has been bedded and you don't want to increase the height of the stock in this area even by a few layers of paint. I also do not paint the inside of the action most times.</p><p></p><p>Greg ... OnTargetCustoms.net</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ARPredatorHunters, post: 447132, member: 10954"] There is really nothing that different with the rest of the bolt action rifle that is done than it is with the gas gun, but with the bolt part of the rifle, paint like Krylon is generally going to be too thick to put onto the bolt body itself as the tight tolerance on the action rails will just scrape the paint back off, if you can even get the bolt to close with the layers of paint on it. This even occurs many times with thinner coatings like DuraCoat. On many bolts I end up media blasting the bolt body to a dull gray matte finish and then I only clear coat it. I think the better option for the bolt body is to have it nitrided. CeraKote can also work where others can't if it is put on very thin. You can paint the hammer shrouds and bolt itself without many issues. I tape off the recoil lug and also do not put paint onto the inside surface of the stock as many times the stock has been bedded and you don't want to increase the height of the stock in this area even by a few layers of paint. I also do not paint the inside of the action most times. Greg ... OnTargetCustoms.net [/QUOTE]
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