Spray Paint your bow ?

[PrimitivePete]

So I had this old Bear Super Kodiak (Fred I apologize in advance) and it was beat up, marked up, been through hell and back but still a shooter thanks to good old American quality. This bow has been with me for a long time, but I hardly used it in recent years due to my preoccupation with my longbows and selfbows. Seeing that I would less likely refinish the bow I decided to paint her up. I'm not an artist in any way but I do like how it came out, very muted it should blend in nicely in the eastern fall woods. Do any of you care to share your artistic masterpieces? By the way the grip is spray on rubber that has stood up very well.

[MnFn]

A red JD Berry Morningstar.  I just painted the back of the bow.

[M60gunner]

We used to camo our bows . I remember Martin Archery sold a kit of 3 colors of spray paint and stencils along with a bottle of remover. That was so you could pretty the bow back up for those summer “shoots”.

[kevsuperg]

Paint is cool but I just use grease face paint now.
 Apply it just like on your skin.
 Easy on easy off. Won't ruin the finish.
 Kevin

[kennym]

Sprayed gray primer , then a loofa dipped in paint on these two...

[Wudstix]

Just use some wax to dull up the finish, but back of bows are usually figured.
 

[Gunleather]

I’ll have to post pictures later. I have one that was a second. The bowyer (my dad) made a mistake and got the lam’s out of order so the top and bottom limb were not matching book ends. When he pulled it out of the form and discovered his error he was going to destroy it but decided to cut it with arrow shelf for a lefty and gave it to me. He made paint it to cover up the mistake. I have not shot it in a few years as I’ve gotten into self bows more and more. I just might have to take her for a spin.

[Sam McMichael]

I used to have a couple of camo bows. The paint job was not special at all. I sprayed the back with several dull colors in sections of about 12 inches. I did the same on the other side of the bow but changed the order of the paint. This was every bit as effective as some intricate, commercially applied camo jobs I have seen. I did run into one issue. The paint I used was a paint specifically sold for this purpose, and, according to the advertising, was readily removable with the company's remover. I never could get all that paint off when I tried. If you think you will ever want to go back to the original finish, I don't recommend it.

[blacktailbob]

Never camoed any of my bows with paint but quite a few other things like tree stands and my truck once.

[Aaron Proffitt 2]

Sprayed gray primer , then a loofa dipped in paint on these two...

Those are sharp ! Great idea.

[BUCKY]

Many times! I actually love solid colors.

[Srongchoo]

Just picked this one up off of Facebook. Seems like guy did a great job on it. Used Predator stencils

[ron w]

Been doing it for years

[dnovo]

Back 45 years ago I painted a couple compounds. These days there is no way I would paint any of my longbows. I like seeing the veneers and they never cause any issues with reflection hunting

[Bowwild]

Like others have reported, it used to be very common to paint our recurves.  After stringing, silencing, and nock locator painting soon followed. To avoid the prying eyes of our prey.

Heck, one year I was such a fanatic about it that I protected the very edge of the sharpened edge and spray planted the broadhead itself. 

I realize that's going pretty far. But, in the days of one deer limits and in some cases shorter seasons, I spent a lot of time planing and tinkering for the season.

I'm hoping to find a 58, 60, or 62" Thunderbird that has been painting that I can "rescue"! I found one of the really short ones that I love.

[Razorbak]

Here is one I did recently

[Gun]

I used to. Now I use a bow sock.

[beemann]

This Widow started life as an MB model all black.  I painted it with some rattle cans when it was new and it made a lot of memories since then...These days I don't worry about it.