Choosing a cerakote colour

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Looking for a little advise on a new build I am doing in 300 WSM. I have a McMillan Adjustable Game Warden in Coyote ambush and I need to sort out what colour to have the gun cerakoted.

Apparently people are sticking with the tried and true - black, sniper grey, cobalt etc but I am looking for something a little different like sand/tan/brown.

I did a little doodling in paint to try and match the colours from cerakotes website but that wasn't very helpful. And most of their gallery is pistols and AR's, not precision green/black rifles :bangHead:

Anyone have any experience with this, what did you like?


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As far as I know you can contact Cerakote and ask for up to 5 "swatches" free, that may help you out?. They are a great company to deal with. So looking at the stock if you wanted "darker" for the receiver/barrel, take a look at patriot brown, or federal standard field drab?, of course you have your FDE's and browns. Good Luck.
 
As others have mentioned you can order up to 5 swatches for free. If you think you'll need more than 5 you can always order more a week or two later. The only downside is they're often out of stock on some swatches and you won't know until you receive the envelope missing 1 or more of the swatches you ordered. I was trying to match a particular shade of green on my stock and ended up ordering all of their green swatches over the course of a few weeks.
 
Thanks for the tip on the free swatches. Placed the order for a few to see what they are like.

Also did some more digging through online pictures in cerakote's gallery and found a nice pic of 700 done up in my exact stock in Magpul FDE.

Looks pretty good. I am thinking this kind of colouring though I might go with a little darker colour.

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When i couldn't decide on what cerakote to get. I ended up going to Home Depot and picked a pile of the large paint swatches they had. I was then able to get the match that i wanted. That helped me lots
 
mad max78 said:
When i couldn't decide on what cerakote to get. I ended up going to Home Depot and picked a pile of the large paint swatches they had. I was then able to get the match that i wanted. That helped me lots
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That's a nice trick. Unfortunately I'm out of the country for work. But maybe I can get some swatches locally to try and narrow it down.
 
I'm going ( Savage Stealth ) Chassis-Coyote Tan H-235
Barrel and action-Desert Sage H-247

If I want more accent colors then add Desert Verde H-256 (light) and Patriot Brown H-226 (dark)
 
My swatches came in and you lads were spot on the money!! The colours are not what I was expecting. Here is a few pics on a plain piece of white paper and this is what they look like:

Straight on
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At a bit of an angle
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And lastly I moved the Desert Sage from the top to the bottom to put it next to the FDE
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By my eye, the FDE's are rather dark green and the coyote tan is a lighter more prominent green. For some unknown reason the Desert sage is a solid brown. The Troy Coyote Tan is closer to what I would call a tan.

Thanks for all the tips and pointing me in the direction of the swatches. At least now I should get something a little more in line with what I was thinking.

Unfortunately I am out of country for work and don't have access to the stock. But I do have a couple Nightforce NXS's here for comparison. I tried the swatches up against my Nightforce NXS and found that it helped to characterize the colours better.
 
I would pick the color that most closely matches one of the colors used in the camo pattern on the stock, I think that's what the owner of the rifle in that photo did. Hard for me to pick one as I can't match one directly to the stock
 
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