For those of you who have painted plastic stocks, what paint
have you used that stayed on with little or no chipping?

Duracoat would be nice, but I have no equipment to use it, and
have only one cheapy stock that I want to paint.

Krylon Fusion. Their camo colors are also Fusion.

I have painted my stock about 3 times over the last 25 years. Last time I used Rustoleum textured paint. Gives a nice non-slip finish and seems to be fairly durable. Ask me again in 5 years.

Link to my ADL stock painting project



What I found was that the paint still scratches a wears off but with the black plastic underneath I can hardly tell without looking hard.

Krylon Fusion Camo colors....

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Originally posted by Recoil Rob:
Krylon Fusion Camo colors....

ditto

I will have to try the Fusion

Haven't done one in several years but used an epoxy spray paint.

Tan Krylon camo, Krylon webbing, matt clear coat:

Thanks, guys. Those are some very nicely
painted stocks!! Recoil Rob, you are a true
artist. What did you use for templates?

Piece of cake Danno, I started by spraying the stocks with a base coat of dark green. Then I walked around the yard and picked some leaves and grasses to use as stencils and lay on the stock. I spread them far apart and I gave a shot of tan paint, then laid more leaves and grasses on the tan and gave a shot of brown. Took about 30 minutes to do both stocks together.

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Originally posted by Recoil Rob:
Piece of cake Danno, I started by spraying the stocks with a base coat of dark green. Then I walked around the yard and picked some leaves and grasses to use as stencils and lay on the stock. I spread them far apart and I gave a shot of tan paint, then laid more leaves and grasses on the tan and gave a shot of brown. Took about 30 minutes to do both stocks together.

Rob

I remember when you posted about that pair of rifles a couple of years ago. As I recall you built one for yourself and the other was for a friend in hope that he would get back into hunting.

I have always wondered how that worked out. Did he start hunting again?

Jason,

Nice of you to ask. We did take the gun hunting a couple of years ago in NH but nothing since. The economic downturn hit him pretty hard (though he still manages to play golf a little too much for my comfort) but he seems to be doing better and he keeps threatening to go out west with me but realistically I think we will get to do some more hunting here in the east before that happens.

I did what I could but I think it's time to start threatening repossession if he doesn't hit the woods more often... ...He helped me through some bad times so I owed him, hopefully he'll realize we're not getting younger and make a commitment.