No way in HELL I would paint a Rem 660.
A current production rifle is another matter. Nice job of painting. Not quite as nice camo with the blued barrel, action, black scope and the unpainted cheekpiece on the stock.
I've camo painted actual military vehicles in the 70s, and one of my hobbies is scale model WWII aircraft and armor, so I've done quite a bit of camo painting both large scale and small.
Always felt it was dumb to only camo part of the item, but the point of camo is not to make the object invisible its to break up the recognizable outline and make it harder to see or determine distance.
Enough camo to completely hide the object (or you) does that too, though for rifles and such, it doesn't have to be paint. It can be the rifle equivaletn of a ghillie suit and work just fine.
Two things I will never have camo, my wallet and my pistol. Those are items that if I drop them in the leaves, I WANT to be able to find them, in a hurry, if need be...
A current production rifle is another matter. Nice job of painting. Not quite as nice camo with the blued barrel, action, black scope and the unpainted cheekpiece on the stock.
I've camo painted actual military vehicles in the 70s, and one of my hobbies is scale model WWII aircraft and armor, so I've done quite a bit of camo painting both large scale and small.
Always felt it was dumb to only camo part of the item, but the point of camo is not to make the object invisible its to break up the recognizable outline and make it harder to see or determine distance.
Enough camo to completely hide the object (or you) does that too, though for rifles and such, it doesn't have to be paint. It can be the rifle equivaletn of a ghillie suit and work just fine.
Two things I will never have camo, my wallet and my pistol. Those are items that if I drop them in the leaves, I WANT to be able to find them, in a hurry, if need be...