DIY camouflaging your treestand

My summit openshot is all beige and i want to break up the coloration of it. I dont want to send it in for a professional paint job because i dont have that kinda cash right now. I was considering just spray painting it various brown and greens. or just buy some camo duct tape or something

Anyone have any advice or other methods you would try using?

 

HH, I just used some redneck camo tape and put it around the green metal on my summitt. It breaks it up really well. You could also get some camo cloth tape to do a better job.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1003&bih=595

Good luck man.

 

Ya i didnt realize how detailed that camo tape would be. Ill probably just end up doing that.

Thanks bud.

 

Just buy a couple can's of "camo" spray paint, with the matte finish, paint it early before season. I did that with mine that was all "gray"

Not the greatest picture, but it was all gray, and if you look in the bed of my truck above the dead 'yote, you can see how it turned out, it's not perfect,but it breaks up the outline......

 

Yep, I wouldn't WANT anything that detailed... from 20 yards away, you're not going to see it anyway (sort of like camo clothes, but I digress )

I paint my stands with big, broad strokes like pictured above. .99 cent paint from Walmart will do the trick.

 

I'm actually going to paint my newest climber this winter. Since I have all year, and I like doing this stuff, I figured what the heck, I'm going to paint the stand in a Predator pattern. Should be fun. I'll post up pics when I'm done.

 

Whats wrong with it being detailed?

 

I think what Greg is referring to is that most commercial camo patterns have so much detail, that they tend to blob up into a solid color, often a dark color at a distance. Take your favorite camo jacket and hang it on a limb outside. Then walk back 20 or 30 yards and look at it. The detail in the camo at that distance is indistinguishable and fills in.

That said, large, open patterns like Predator, ASAT, etc., do a much better job of breaking up the outline. Especially the outlines of us humans and treestands.

 

I never really thought of it like that