The Pros and Cons of Painting your AR

[Doc Safari]

5) If you have a camo AR and you haven't dealt with the shadow and shine areas on your face and hands, or are wearing a short-sleeved shirt, you aren't truly operating.

Yep. Or you have a perfect multicam paint job on your AR but wear a blaze orange vest in the sticks.

[Tx_Aggie]

Pappabear has a few painted guns. I have one, and had one before that. Never had any regrets for doing it. Tan camo guns are way better in the hot ass desert.

I probably ought to rattle another gun or two.

Agreed! The difference between an all black AR of some sort and one painted a tan-ish color is significant when you are out in the sun.

Lots of truth in the above.

[Defaultmp3]

I will be sure to throw up pics of my SR-25 after I paint it, just to see how many people lament it.

[stank]

I paint mine to help keep them a tad cooler here in the desert. I have camo patterned it in the past but just did brown/tanish this last time. It was easy enough to remove and repaint. Maby next time I will do OD green or similar.

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[The_War_Wagon]

I've gone cerakote on a couple. But paint - no matter how well-intended - always looks amateurish.

I mean, maybe Ryan Evans (Counting Cars) could do one up in orange metalflake, with some handrubbed silver pinstripes, and some awesome candy apple flames... but, WHY?!

[hile]

I see no reason not to paint my rifles, though I haven't done it yet. I'll probably paint most all of them (the NZ LMT clone may be an exception) according to the Book of Pat.

[RobertTheTexan]

I painted my first AR and thankfully had a friend talk sense into me because I almost went “binge-painting”. I wanted to paint every AR I owned and aßt that time I had built about 12. Now I have a few that I’ve painted and I like them. They have my own personal touch. I have a few I’ve had cerakoted those are nice too.
I don’t really buy the resale part because I don’t build an AR thinking of “how much can I get for it.” Or “how much can I get for these parts?”


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[RobertTheTexan]

That wretched ACU camo pattern? Amateurish.

An AR painted to blend in with the terrain in your AO? Smart.


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[Moose-Knuckle]

Tan camo guns are way better in the hot ass desert.

I'm always amazed how black attracts and retains heat energy, i.e. electromagnetic radiation. FDE, CB, etc. not only reduces this effect but also dampens the sheen that black produces when under NV.

[RHINOWSO]

People who don’t realize that black can get really hot in the sun spend too much time sitting at a covered bench shooting from the shade.