Do you camouflage your stainless steel rifle barrel?

[wapiti hunter2]

I am thinking of camouflaging my stainless rifle barrel.  I have a new Knight bighorn in stainless and it looks like a giant light stick walking through the woods.  have any of you done this and if so how?

[mossback91]

Get it dipped!

[BLKBEARKLR]

I have 3 of them, killed they are rifles though. I have killed well over 25 animals with them and never had a problem at all.

Joe

[Lowedog]

I have the same rifle and just wrapped it with that self clinging camo wrap stuff.  Works great.  I have painted a couple of my stainless modern rifles and just used Krylon camo paint.  Just started with a light base and used a template I made and sprayed over with each time darker colors.
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[carpsniperg2]

yote yes big game no

[bowhunterforever]

yote yes big game no

I use self clinging camo form tape

[Skyvalhunter]

Make sure you don't comprimise the free floating of the barrel

[Whitelightning]

I am with BLKBEARKLR, nerver have had an issue with my Stainless M/L's. Mine are not polished either they are satin.

[wapiti hunter2]

Interesting.  So, when it comes to coyotes you camo-up.  But when it comes to big game and spending potentially a thousand dollars or more for an in-state elk or deer hunt you don't.  You spend hundreds on camo clothing, face paint etc then leave your gun silver?  I ask because I have spotted hunters stainless rifles in the woods before seeing them on several occassions and I know mine sticks out like a Star Wars light saber.  How can you say you have never had a problem?  If the deer or elk sees you first it's gone.  You'll never know.  I am going to camo-up I just don't know if I am going to paint or tape.

[Lowedog]

Make sure you don't comprimise the free floating of the barrel

No worries with the Bighorn.

Interesting.  So, when it comes to coyotes you camo-up.  But when it comes to big game and spending potentially a thousand dollars or more for an in-state elk or deer hunt you don't.  You spend hundreds on camo clothing, face paint etc then leave your gun silver?  I ask because I have spotted hunters stainless rifles in the woods before seeing them on several occassions and I know mine sticks out like a Star Wars light saber.  How can you say you have never had a problem?  If the deer or elk sees you first it's gone.  You'll never know.  I am going to camo-up I just don't know if I am going to paint or tape.

I decided to paint my rifles several years ago after I was sneaking through the trees in a high country basin and afterward my buddy who was across the basin told me how he could see the light reflecting off my rifle. 

[MikeWalking]

I had mine (my old 1895GS) Glass bead blasted, pretty cheap if I remember.  Left a nice non-shiny matte gray finish.  Covered the scratches too...

[jackelope]

Interesting.  So, when it comes to coyotes you camo-up.  But when it comes to big game and spending potentially a thousand dollars or more for an in-state elk or deer hunt you don't.  You spend hundreds on camo clothing, face paint etc then leave your gun silver?  I ask because I have spotted hunters stainless rifles in the woods before seeing them on several occassions and I know mine sticks out like a Star Wars light saber.  How can you say you have never had a problem?  If the deer or elk sees you first it's gone.  You'll never know.  I am going to camo-up I just don't know if I am going to paint or tape.

Not sure what the point of camo painting or dipping a big game modern rifle when you're walking around with a glowing orange vest on.
I won't put tape on another gun. I taped a shotgun once and when I took the tape off it was all rusted. Never again.

[jackelope]

I had this rifle parkerized to get rid of the glare from the deep polished blue, but mainly because I don't like the shiny stuff. Pretty sure it will reduce the glare which couldn't hurt anything.

[Caseyd]

Interesting.  So, when it comes to coyotes you camo-up.  But when it comes to big game and spending potentially a thousand dollars or more for an in-state elk or deer hunt you don't.  You spend hundreds on camo clothing, face paint etc then leave your gun silver?  I ask because I have spotted hunters stainless rifles in the woods before seeing them on several occassions and I know mine sticks out like a Star Wars light saber.  How can you say you have never had a problem?  If the deer or elk sees you first it's gone.  You'll never know.  I am going to camo-up I just don't know if I am going to paint or tape.

Not sure what the point of camo painting or dipping a big game modern rifle when you're walking around with a glowing orange vest on.
I won't put tape on another gun. I taped a shotgun once and when I took the tape off it was all rusted. Never again.

 

[MikeWalking]

Not sure what the point of camo painting or dipping a big game modern rifle when you're walking around with a glowing orange vest on.
I won't put tape on another gun. I taped a shotgun once and when I took the tape off it was all rusted. Never again.

Good point since deer and elk are color blind but see light reflected off materials in ways we can't. They can't tell Orange from Black. But taking the shine of stainless steel can't hurt and ought to help. They can see the Infrared and UV light reflected off plants and man made material. Clothes, metal reflect more than plants and look shiny and unnatural compared to the dull flat reflection off plants to a deers eyes.  As long as it's a dull finish how's a deer or elk gonna know it from a branch?

"Fool, Elk don't know how many legs a horse has"