The Firearm Blog

Digital Concealment Systems have developed a new camo design that will be used on Remington, Bushmaster and DPMS guns. While the company is planning on unveiling it at SHOT '10, it has been in development for a while now and a few promotional photos can be found online.

Remington ACR with A-TACS camo.

Its universal pattern¹ is a kind of improved digital pattern that uses blended blobs instead of the square pixels that are used in digital camo.

More info at Solider Systems and Strike - Hold.

The Mossy Oak Obsession camouflage design that is often used on rifles and shotguns has been licensed to Style Crest for use on exterior cladding. Your house can now match your rifle

Stabley Outdoors has more info.

In other news, Behr are offering an evil back rifle paint. Now your exterior and interior can match your AR-15.

Photo from Luminous Landscape

The Assault Paint line is likely to be banned in the near future so buy it now! ( That was just a joke, sometimes people don’t get em )

The Fins are not happy with the Russians. DefenceTalk.com reports:

The Finnish Defence Forces are investigating what they suspect is unauthorised copying of the M05 camouflage pattern by the Russian military, Finnish business daily Taloussanomat reported on its website Tuesday.

The M05 battledress pattern is a protected design.

According to Taloussanomat, a pattern bearing striking resemblance to the M05 had been seen in Russia’s Yeger battledress in news footage.

Finnish M05 woodland pattern (photo from Wikipedia)

New Russian Camo that was on display
earlier this year (2008) (Photo from MP.net)

UPDATE:

BallisticBaggins in the comments think this may be the camo the Fins are referring to (see comments below for more information):

This company sell camo paint stencils for painting firearms. They also have lots of tips on using stencils, which are just as applicable to home made stencils.

Please don’t do this to your firearm.

This company is selling custom 3D camo that attaches to all types of ghillie suits (and equivalent). They do not say what the camo objects are made of but I would assume it is some type of foam (the objects are almost weightless).

The causal observer will only see a sniper killed by a pile of wood.

Cleverly disguised as a rock monster. Half man, half rock.

In all seriousness I think this is a very cool product. I am not sure if military snipers need such a product.

More here.

Mossy Oak have launched a new camo pattern designed for …

… hardcore whitetail hunters who hunt from an elevated position. Treestand offers whitetail hunters the ideal camouflage solution for altering their silhouette among the bare limbs of a tree in late fall.

Some photos


The press release

Mossy Oak, the industry leader in camouflage design, is proud to introduce its newest pattern, Treestand, designed specifically for hardcore whitetail hunters who hunt from an elevated position. Treestand offers whitetail hunters the ideal camouflage solution for altering their silhouette among the bare limbs of a tree in late fall.

“Hunting whitetails from a tree is one of our favorite pursuits here at Mossy Oak,” said founder and CEO Toxey Haas. “If we took the time to add up all the hours that our staff has spent in a treestand over the years, we’d probably wonder just how anything gets done around here. But it is exactly that dedication to the sport that helps us bring you a pattern as effective as Treestand.”

Nearly 20 years ago, Mossy Oak introduced the original version of Treestand and revolutionized the way we look at camo by being the first to incorporate tree limbs into a pattern. Almost two decades later, Treestand now utilizes digital technology to exactly reproduce the details and subtleties of actual tree limbs laid over the neutral tones most commonly seen when looking up through bare trees.

“This pattern was specifically designed with the elevated hunter in mind,” said Butch English, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Mossy Oak. “Treestand is built to defeat the ‘deer’s eye view’ of looking up through the limbs of bare trees. Our new Treestand pattern is the ultimate camo for the over 12 million hunters that hit the woods each year in pursuit of whitetails.”

Looks alright.

Ninjamaster at HKPRO forum posted before and after pictures of his USP Tactical pistol which be gave the photoshop camo treatment.

I think it looks great.

More here.

I have been looking for a good tutorial on how to spray paint a rifle. Sniper’s Hide has a great tutorial on painting your rifle.

$20 worth of stuff to paint $10,000 worth of optics and guns, ain’t life grand.

Here’s the Remington in the woods to see how the pattern/color combination works.

Read the tutorial here.

Some beautiful 1911 photos:

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From RocketFoot @ PFOA