One year i got up to go deer hunting and found it had snowed overnight. Since i was running late as usual, I grabbed a couple old white cotton knee sox and the white first aid tape and did a real quick snow camo job on my cva. My buddies laughed so hard when i showed up. But next day two of them had bought some of the winter camo gun tape.
Gaffer Tape!
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I once served with a Slurpee (
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Enlistee) who, pre-Army, had been a roadie for some rock music touring acts. He had a BA in Theater with concentration in Technology, if I'm recalling his credentials correctly. You might wonder what practical use that diploma would have in the Army, but he had some very respectable fieldcraft skills stemming from his previous career pursuits - including rappelling, setting up anything resembling scaffolding or framing like packable gear racks, tent frames from mismatched/broken parts, and any time we had to put 50 pounds of crap in a 20 pound sack or 100 cubic feet of gear into a 50 cube space in a vehicle - which was all the time. This guy could do stuff in cramped spaces, up high, in the dark and cold rain with a penlight in his mouth that I often struggled with on the ground in warm, dry daylight.
I could put him in charge of getting 2,000 cubic feet of stuff packed for deployment into our 20 foot MILVAN (1,200 cubic feet) and give him the whole day with 1 or 2 other Joes to help him do it, and he'd come back 3 hours later and ask what else we could put in the extra space! That, and he'd have the packing list, load plan, and customs forms (when needed) properly filled out and signed by the right people. That's a dang handy guy to have on your team when your mission requires taking a lot of gear downrange. Needless to say, I may have had rank on him, but he was someone I made a point of listening to when it came to taking our show on the road.
I realize that has about nothing to do with temporarily camouflaging a rifle, but now that I've scratched an old itch to share a memory before it fades, let me tie it into the current discussion:
I had always been a 100MPH Tape cover-up guy before hearing that young Soldier's roadie tales endlessly extolling the virtues of Gaffer Tape, but since our short acquaintance I've kept it around to cover stuff I wanted to protect without leaving gooey adhesive residue behind. It sometimes needs a little help on top of it from something like electrical or Gorilla Tape to stay on but it still makes an awesome base layer to protect pretty gunstocks, polished bluing, scope tubes & bells, etc. And unlike 100MPH tape, you won't spend an hour with Goo Gone, oil soap, or denatured alcohol and a ScotchBrite pad getting the goo off of your gear when you're done with it.