Choosing a cerakote colour

[Bandits]

I would have gone like DeWalt Yellow personally

That is better suited to an AR-15

Could be worse.... John Deere Green

 

[Bandits]

I'm surprised the desert sage is so red brown? Can you put 235 and 247 together?

Here is a picture of them together.

 

[Kosmic]

Great service from Cerakote with those free samples. Good luck on the paint job!!

I choose Magpul FDE for my rifle. Close match to my Bushnell ERS FDE scope.

 

[Lead hammer]

Here is a picture of them together.

Thank you sir!

 

[MartyK2500]

Here is a picture of them together.

These 2 colours are very nice together.
Maybe mix and match them depending on what parts?

 

[Robmcleod82]

Magpul fde looks good with that stock

 

[Lead hammer]

I wonder what or if base coolers were used for the samples. Even Kosmic's magpul fde paint looks way lighter than the samples.

 

[MustangFrank]

Cerakote rarely looks the same in pictures compared to real samples. Lots of factors. May I suggest Coyote tan or perhaps a OD green . There is no wrong choice.

 

[kthomas]

I vote no cerakote. Your barrel will retain more heat, and your spending a lot of money to coat a consumable. Will add up to a lot of cost if you go through 1-2+ barrels a year. Hard to justify that expense when all it does is make the gun "pretty". Cerakoting an action makes it feel more gummy, and you decrease tolerances, which can cause reliability issues when shooting in the fine dust or rain. It will take many thousands of cycles to get the action to break in to feel somewhat smooth again (well, if it ever did in the first place - depends on your action).

I like custom paint jobs on stocks/chassis, but not on actions or barrels. Leave the barrel bare stainless, and DLC or nitride your action. There are much better coatings/finishes for actions these days than cerakote.

 

[CaberTosser]

I had my 700 Police done in a sand color around 2010. I traded a fellow the McMillan from mine for the B&C from his XCR in case anyone jumps in to correct me.

 

[Candocad]

(quote) I like custom paint jobs on stocks/chassis, but not on actions or barrels. Leave the barrel bare stainless, and DLC or nitride your action. There are much better coatings/finishes for actions these days than cerakote.[/QUOTE]

What is your preference for actions?

Candocad.

 

[kthomas]

What is your preference for actions?

Candocad.

Two of my actions are DLC'ed. My TacOps has a Birdsong finish. The wife's action is nitrided.

These coatings are super thin (technically nitride is a finish not a coating) and will not effect function from a reliability standpoint. These coatings/finishes feel slick as snot.

I will never Cerakote an action again.

 

[Candocad]

Thanks, not familiar with DLS so I shall research further. I note the tolerance challenge with any coating on items such as actions and think that cerakote will ultimately wear in such instances. Not ideal.

Candocad.

 

[kthomas]

Thanks, not familiar with DLS so I shall research further. I note the tolerance challenge with any coating on items such as actions and think that cerakote will ultimately wear in such instances. Not ideal.

Candocad.

Look it up. I promise you will never want another Cerakoted action if you go DLC.

For those interested, these are some of the properties of DLC coating:

- self lubricating in dry wear conditions
- low coefficient of friction
- high corrosion resistance
- high hardness

Works great lubricated or dry. Obviously lubricated will feel a bit slicker, but even dry it runs better than a Cerakoted action. My Cerakoted Defiance was a nightmare to keep running in super dusty conditions - my DLC'ed Mausingfield eats up the dust and dirt.

 

[CHEMMY]

Who are you using to do your DLC and is the price decent? usually small batch coating is overly expensive.

 

[kthomas]

Who are you using to do your DLC and is the price decent? usually small batch coating is overly expensive.

My Defiance and Mausingfield came from the manufacturers already coated with DLC.

 

[Alpheus]

My Defiance and Mausingfield came from the manufacturers already coated with DLC.

Aren't they nitrided, not DLC?

 

[kthomas]

Aren't they nitrided, not DLC?

Mausingfields come standard with DLC. Defiances you have the option of bare/naked stainless, nitride or DLC, and perhaps even other options.

 

[mildot]

Look it up. I promise you will never want another Cerakoted action if you go DLC.

For those interested, these are some of the properties of DLC coating:

- self lubricating in dry wear conditions
- low coefficient of friction
- high corrosion resistance
- high hardness

Works great lubricated or dry. Obviously lubricated will feel a bit slicker, but even dry it runs better than a Cerakoted action. My Cerakoted Defiance was a nightmare to keep running in super dusty conditions - my DLC'ed Mausingfield eats up the dust and dirt.

I'm thinking on just getting the bolt done on my Defiance? thoughts?, I want to Cerakote the receiver but only outside, I've read the issues with doing it on the inside.

 

[kthomas]

I'm thinking on just getting the bolt done on my Defiance? thoughts?, I want to Cerakote the receiver but only outside, I've read the issues with doing it on the inside.

I've never heard of anyone getting just a bolt DLC'ed, but I have a friend who has just his bolt nitrided on his bare Defiance action and it feels really slick.