Coyote brown M&P 9...

[SuicideHz]

That's what you get for leaving any of your pretty guns behind while you go to the range! KARMA!

Or is it plain old irony?

[Evan_O]

Looks very well done Hawkeye!

Let us know how it holds up after some time in a holster. If it will hold up to some holster time I may end up spraying a pistol of mine.

Please keep us updated.

[Hawkeye]

Did a short handgun class today. Apparently I didnt let it dry quite long enough. I am used to the 15 minute dry time of Krylon. In short order I had a bit of a sticky brown palm. Looks like the frame itself dried, but the changeable grip piece didnt and thats where it was coming off from. I read the can again and it says before applying anymore to let the first coat fully cure, so I am going to give it a few more days and when its completely done, redo it in the area it came off. Will then let it sit for a longer time before use.

[Hawkeye]

Got a second coat on. Let it cure better this time. It matches the FDE color of a Safariland 6004 quite well. Little shiny in the one pic in a couple of spots, but thats more flash than anything. It actually turned out to have a nice flat finish. Just have to see how long it holds up now. I'm not worried about it scratching, as thats going to happen regardless. I am interested to see though, if after it does start to get scratched up, if it begins to come off around the scratched areas or not.

[mark5pt56]

Looks cool! I don't know why, but I've found that Aluma-Hyde II takes longer to dry/cure on certain rubbers and plastics. Stuff like power rings on scopes. I guess it's the composition of them?

[Hawkeye]

Could be. It dried MUCH faster on the frame itself, than it did on the removeable grip piece.

[M4arc]

Hawkeye,

I was over at Bob's Gun Shop @ lunch fondling the new coyote brown M&P45! Man that thing is sweet! This one had the manual safety and a lanyard built into the takedown tool.

I think you need one

[Hawkeye]

Its on my list.... but only once I am sure that the thumb safety can be removed, or they are available without it.

[M4arc]

Its on my list.... but only once I am sure that the thumb safety can be removed, or they are available without it.

I kinda liked the thumb safety. It wasn't mushy like I read it was and it kind of reminded me of a 1911. I don't know if I'd get one with a thumb safety because my M&P9 doesn't have so maybe I'll have to get one of each

[mark5pt56]

Get the one w/o the manual safety. No sense in complicating things.

Hawkeye--I sent off for the M&P 9 today! Hell isn't frozen over yet though, just a mini ice age