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Anyone spray paint their sticks?

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House75

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Wanting to camo my sticks to blend in better…I am weird about blending in - no bright colors or anything that sticks out. Anyone use camo spray paint and have any reactions from deer? I figure if I let them dry for a week should be good regarding smell.


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House75 said:
Lol - I do shower and roll around in the leaves before I hunt.


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This one time I took a guy from California who had never hunted before and he asked if he should paint his face, I said yea you can if you want sometimes I do. I show up and he has completely caked every exposed area of his skin in about a half inch of clay mud.
 
Hunter260 said:
This one time I took a guy from California who had never hunted before and he asked if he should paint his face, I said yea you can if you want sometimes I do. I show up and he has completely caked every exposed area of his skin in about a half inch of clay mud.
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@Hunter260 - Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode - being from NJ, maybe @redsquirrel can relate :grinning:

 
Hunter260 said:
This one time I took a guy from California who had never hunted before and he asked if he should paint his face, I said yea you can if you want sometimes I do. I show up and he has completely caked every exposed area of his skin in about a half inch of clay mud.
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i thought you were going to say he had eye shadow and lipstick on.....
 
House75 said:
Wanting to camo my sticks to blend in better…I am weird about blending in - no bright colors or anything that sticks out. Anyone use camo spray paint and have any reactions from deer? I figure if I let them dry for a week should be good regarding smell.


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I personally did paint mine. I used a sponge, cut it into smaller squares and dabbed green, black, and tan. i think they turned out decent.

Did i need to, probably not
Was i bored and wanted something to do, absolutely
 
House75 said:
Wanting to camo my sticks to blend in better…I am weird about blending in - no bright colors or anything that sticks out. Anyone use camo spray paint and have any reactions from deer? I figure if I let them dry for a week should be good regarding smell.


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Camo Gorilla tape them.
 
I use camo vet wrap or black heat-shrink-tubing, but that is mostly just to quiet them down so they don't make so much noise. Takes a bit of the factory glare off, too. Sticks are "only" 20" long - and strapped to the tree they blend in pretty well with all the other sticks in the woods and in with the tree. I don't think it's important to paint climbing sticks so they blend in any better.
 
Rob Eberhardt does and he's the Godfather of saddle hunting. Just watched a video of his on YouTube doing just this.
 
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I personally did paint mine. I used a sponge, cut it into smaller squares and dabbed green, black, and tan. i think they turned out decent.

Did i need to, probably not
Was i bored and wanted something to do, absolutely
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Kind of the same - I tend to do stuff in garage to do stuff. I bought a camo tree bark stencil and painted using brown, grey and green. However, I am liking the tape idea now to quiet them.


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I always spray paint my stuff with camo paint to dull it down I think it works and gives me confidence. I’m primarily a one sticker but I traded for some nice sticks this year and rather then vet wrapping four whole sticks or stealth stripping them, I sprayed truck bed liner on them, four coats over the course of several hours and let that completely cure for a day or so. Then I did a top coat of OD green, tan and brown regular camo dull spray paint. The bed liner paint has a urethane base that is almost somewhat rubbery and it really, surprisingly quiets them down considerably. You still have to be careful but the clanging is now a dull thud much like a fully stealth stripped piece.
 
I painted my Sticks about a month ago, mainly because I took all the hardware off them to inspect for any wear or rust on the hardware and I disliked the original LoneWolf color.
I painted them dark gray first, then added black stripes. Then I used a sponge cut into different sizes to apply tan, brown and green colors.
 

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Just_Hangin_N_GA said:
I painted my Sticks about a month ago, mainly because I took all the hardware off them to inspect for any wear or rust on the hardware and I disliked the original LoneWolf color.
I painted them dark gray first, then added black stripes. Then I used a sponge cut into different sizes to apply tan, brown and green colors.
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Looks good. What do the sponge pieces look like? Does their shape matter?
 
If your wind is bad... it's bad and they'll smell everything you do, touch, or even think about touching. Let them dry good. I 3d printed some Kryptek stencils and gave all my sticks a multi color kryptek pattern. Likely does nothing, but it looks awesome :sunglasses:
 
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Looks good. What do the sponge pieces look like? Does their shape matter?
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I bought some sea sponge from the craft department of Walmart. I just cut a couple different sizes nothing special. The main thing is just different patterns.... and remember the camouflage is mainly for us and not the deer. But it is pretty
 
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