A facelift.

[chuck nelson]

Or at least a change.

I'm in the process of changing a couple of things on my main hunting rifle including a scope mount and stock change. In the process I'll need to paint the stock add a pad and could blacken the metal as well. What would you do?

Here it is now. Should I keep it these colours?

Or one of these?

Or a standard silver stainless finish with one of the above stock/pad colour combinations?

 

[EggMcMuffown]

Keep it how it is, it looks great. The other 2 look cheap for some reason.

 

[Yehen]

What kind of rifle is that? Keep it as it it. It looks nice.

 

[chuck nelson]

What kind of rifle is that? Keep it as it it. It looks nice.

It's a customized Model 70.

 

[Hawes]

Seems to have worked fine on that buck, don't mess with a winning recipe!

 

[StevieK]

the synthetic brown looks god awful, like someone took a #### and rubbed it all over a nice stock. I prefer wood myself, but a black stock with stainless barrel is the next best thing to ###y in my book. Although I think your green looks pretty nice. If it were me I wouldn't spend the money to change it when it looks pretty good already

 

[chuck nelson]

A completely different stock design is the motivation behind the change.

 

[StevieK]

If your gonna change it for a better stock design then my .02$ is a black stock with stainless barrel

 

[StevieK]

and put that orange recoil pad on the end of the black stock

 

[hitch.bd]

It's a beautiful gun as is but it looks like the manufacturer built it backwards. It's a south paw gun!

 

[Jordan Smith]

I vote for black stock with silver webbing, and keep the silver metal.

 

[rgv]

what stock are you going to? thats a compact currently?

 

[blargon]

I'm partial to the Olive/stainless myself...

Also like the brown/black, but the black on black does nothing for me...

 

[chuck nelson]

what stock are you going to? thats a compact currently?

It is. I'm going with an Echols Legend McMillan.

 

[saskcop]

I agree, the synthetic brown is disgusting. Anything else would be better than that.

 

[rgv]

i like dark grey

McM's green and grey are too light for my eyes.

are LH legends available?

 

[chuck nelson]

The dark grey does look nice.

Yes the LH Legends are available.

Nice looking rifle, how do you like the QR mounts?

 

[rgv]

after screwing around with steel weavers and Z-rings, then a Talley kick, I'm switching over to the QR's. Simple and clean looking, repeatable, available very low mounting options, spare rings are cheap.

 

[rem338win]

Keep it how it is, it looks great. The other 2 look cheap for some reason.

the synthetic brown looks god awful, like someone took a s**t and rubbed it all over a nice stock. I prefer wood myself, but a black stock with stainless barrel is the next best thing to ###y in my book. Although I think your green looks pretty nice. If it were me I wouldn't spend the money to change it when it looks pretty good already

I would have a hard time calling an Echols Legend ugly.

 

[hvmetalhead]

it looks good teh only thing i would change it the lefthanded ness