"Synthetic Burlwood"

If it's a good pattern for camo would you wear shirts and pants in it? Usually it goes the other way around, we make it work on clothing then use it on the gun. Burlwood camo, not so much. Again, it's a high end wood figuring reduced to the lowest common denominator for a bad reason.

Camo on rifles very definitely has a place, during the camo trials pics posted were of soldiers who had different patterns on. You could tell where they were by seeing the gun first. Pics of soldiers with no gun then became the practice.

Black guns - or wood and steel - stand out and even more so when moving. I use lighter camo tones on my hunting rifles now to blend against the camo I am wearing, rather than be highlighted in contrast. Movement catches the eye, so I try to minimize it's attractiveness.

The AR pistol I'm using this year is getting wrapped in Multicam tape for that reason. If you do some research there was a product out in the late '70's/'80's that zipped vinyl camo over the wood stocks of traditional hunting rifles. It also protected the wood finish in inclement weather. There's some 40 year old concepts about it wrapped up in that. Nobody use fake wood patterns then, it was largely WWII Marine Raider pattern commercialized.

Dark burlwood camo over plastic? Sorry, the only place I see that working is on a flea market table. As soon as possible.
 
Why hunters wear camp? (sorry I don't hunt, so I am ignorant about a lot of things). I thought they wear orange to minimize accidents. I was told orange stands out to human but not so to animals. Not true?

I can understand wearing camo in battle field. It should be on weapons too. But why for hunting?

-TL
 
Same reason as on the battle field, so the target doesn't see you first. A deer has to approach from well outside range in most states.

Deer have limited to no color vision, so it really doesn't matter what color your camo is, just the pattern. Many other animals have better vision.

Native Americans were bow hunting deer from the ground on the move without camo for a few centuries like it was their job(it was).

You REALLY have to stay still for camo to work. I am not sure it matters what you wear if you really stay still. One can hide from people in plain view by staying still and a few other small things in cities using shadows and such in normal clothes.
 
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The real question is does anyone LIKE the synthetic burlwood stock? And, if so, are they brave enough to speak up!:D
 
This is the same gun in standard black furniture.......

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....and in their "Carbon Fiber" finish.

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