PAINTING A SHOTGUN

I am lookin to paint my 870 Express. It is the synthetic matte black finish

I am wondering what my options are. I want to paint it camo.
I would like to do it myself. What are the better brands, methods, etc.

For the stock, clean it real good and pick out a color of krylon fusion you like... Thats whats on my mossberg in this picture. http://www.msgunowners.com/t14729-got-bored-this-afternoon Its fairly tough, better yet its super easy to touch up later. This guns never seen a case and never will, it just gets thrown in the trunk. Only touched it up once so far. Same paint works fine on metal too, but more prep is needed. I take them down to bare metal and use a automotive etching primer and a regular primer then paint. Oh, and get some automotive grade masking tape, green 3m preferrably... the household grade stuff is horrible for a job like this.

I used 3 cans (matte black, matte green, and matte tan) of krylon. I recommend putting down a base coat of whatever the lightest color you decide to use is. Then get some leaves, pinestraw, and such to use as shield when you spray on the darker colors. Just hold your assorted nature materials over the gun and spray hitting all around them. You'll end up with an inexact camo-looking pattern. The only pre-cleaning I bothered with was a wipe down with alcohol to make sure there weren't any residual oils on the gun. It has held up ok. Could use a touch up, but I'm really not too worried about it.

Can you post pics of final product?

I have a 25-06 bull barrel varmint, and well deer gun. I have killed a few deer with her, but mostly handgun hunt. And all I did on the steel was scuff it with Scotch Bright. One thing I did after I got out and shot was to come back and lay a flat black on the top of the barrel to cut down any glare in the scope. All my paints were flat but the light green and tan glared just a little in the scope. May want to do the same on the shotgun because you are used to looking at a black barrel when you shoot. Hoped I have helped. Oh and I didn't go with a leaf pattern I went more flowing look, no sharp edges.

Clean it with brake cleaner or acetone before you paint. If You don't like how it turns out, Kleen Strip from Walmart will take the paint off and leave it looking like new. Or at least how it looked before paint.

You do know that brake cleaner and acetone eat a lot of plastics out there dont you? I highly reccomend NOT using either of those and buying either some denatured alcohol or what i use, automotive wax and grease remover... its made for surface cleaning like this.

Yeah. Thanks for clarifying that for the OP. Wasn't thinking about the plastic when I posted that cause I usually take the stock off of whatever I paint, then clean the metal and paint a base coat. Then put the stock back on and finish it up.

I would go with duracoat . No spray paint is going to hold up. The first time any solvent hits it will melt. There are some other sprays on gun coatings out there also that work well also.