camo tape on your rifle
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Get the gunshop to knock off $100.00 for the idiotic camo tape. Take it home, remove the stuff, clean it and go hunting. I guarantee you if the gunshop buyer saw such an abomination come in, he knocked off quite a few bucks off it. You take advantage of the same and cut a deal for what's underneath.
I have an older ruger with the real shiny S/S and applied that tape to specific areas to reduce shine. A good white gaffer's tape would have worked too as non-glare snow camo but the camo tape is supposed to last and remove cleanly. That tells me it has an acrylic adhesive. It stuck to areas of the synthetic stock very well too.
i just got a remington 5r from wolverine supplies and through the pictures i saw i couldnt tell but now that i have it has a rubber like material on the grip portion of the stock and i was just wondering if it comes off seems ot be put on with a decent adhesive, my only issue withis that it wasnt installed all that great and the seems dont line up
I find I get a bit of oxidization under the electrical tape when I put it on the barrel of a blued rifle to prevent getting crap in there when in thick wet bush.
Be cautious of the tape allowing places for condensation to sit if you take it out in damp weather/environments.
Be cautious of the tape allowing places for condensation to sit if you take it out in damp weather/environments.
Camo tape on a hunting rifle? Really? A person is decked out in Orange and they want their rifle to be camo? What if you put it down for a minute and couldn't find it again?
On the other hand if it were a target rifle (sniper clone) it would most likely knock off 0.1 - 0.2 MOA from your group. Just straight logic
On the other hand if it were a target rifle (sniper clone) it would most likely knock off 0.1 - 0.2 MOA from your group. Just straight logic
Really. There are lots of stock hunting rifles in camo these days. Not really needed if everything is matte finish on a rifle. Coyote hunting on the other hand demands some sort of snow camo and you aren't wearing orange either.
Acrylic based adhesives are designed to work better in cold temps, minimize adhesive transfer when removed and last longer in the environment (outside).
My rifle was stainless/synthetic so no worries there. Trapping moisture on a blued finish definitely is not a good idea. Many on this forum have painted the whole rifle and scope in camo but that is harder to reverse if you need to.
Acrylic based adhesives are designed to work better in cold temps, minimize adhesive transfer when removed and last longer in the environment (outside).
My rifle was stainless/synthetic so no worries there. Trapping moisture on a blued finish definitely is not a good idea. Many on this forum have painted the whole rifle and scope in camo but that is harder to reverse if you need to.
troutseeker
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- Prince George, BC
It aint a huntin' gun till there's tape on it! Be careful 'cause I once taped my bolt handle shut under all that camo stuff... And when I put the gun down to git my knife I kinda lost the gun for a little while... Damn camo!
RememberTheSomme
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- Nova Scotia
I camo my M70FWT since 1990 for Winter coyote hunting. Use white hockey tape. Liberally cover entire firearm with gunoil, wrap this everywhere with cling wrap, and presto you have a weatherproof underlay to attach your hockey tape to.
This can stay in place throughout the whole season with all the associated condensation problems encountered, with no issues.
When the season is over in mid-spring, it will unravel as easy as it went on with no goo and no rust.
Zero your rifle with your coyote load after wrapping. Mine is pressure bedded at forearm so no accuracy prolems beyond what a walnut stock would normally give.
It worked for 20 seasons with the rifle staying wrapped for up to 4 months. You can imagine the hot/ cold cycles it goes through in that time and the resulting condensation. My finish on both stock and metal are fine. That plastic, oil filled cocoon, does the trick. Even the scope ,which is aluminum gets oiled and cling wrapped before white tape, just to prevent the glue from sticking there in spring.
Why not just wrap with cling and then tape some might ask?...... You will trap any moisture present in room at that time between the palstic and the steel, and be in for a nasty surprise come spring. So Oil everything liberally first.
You'll have to experiment with the total rifle wrap to get everything protected and still function properly. My floorplate has to stay blind all season, the only change.
This is the only thing I would camo a firearm for. I don't hunt turkeys, but after seeing many crows circling 25 feet over me while calling and can't detect me in my winter whites, or my rifle, it tells me it works.
This can stay in place throughout the whole season with all the associated condensation problems encountered, with no issues.
When the season is over in mid-spring, it will unravel as easy as it went on with no goo and no rust.
Zero your rifle with your coyote load after wrapping. Mine is pressure bedded at forearm so no accuracy prolems beyond what a walnut stock would normally give.
It worked for 20 seasons with the rifle staying wrapped for up to 4 months. You can imagine the hot/ cold cycles it goes through in that time and the resulting condensation. My finish on both stock and metal are fine. That plastic, oil filled cocoon, does the trick. Even the scope ,which is aluminum gets oiled and cling wrapped before white tape, just to prevent the glue from sticking there in spring.
Why not just wrap with cling and then tape some might ask?...... You will trap any moisture present in room at that time between the palstic and the steel, and be in for a nasty surprise come spring. So Oil everything liberally first.
You'll have to experiment with the total rifle wrap to get everything protected and still function properly. My floorplate has to stay blind all season, the only change.
This is the only thing I would camo a firearm for. I don't hunt turkeys, but after seeing many crows circling 25 feet over me while calling and can't detect me in my winter whites, or my rifle, it tells me it works.
07blackwater
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Port Coquitlam, BC
I know some guys will call BS but my buddy taped his stainless Ruger and it threw the POI off by a few inches @ 100 yards. He ripped off the tape and made a sock for the barrel out of camo that fits loosely and it seems to work fine.
