I'd treat them like I treated the tailgate decal, and license plate border on the only new truck I've ever bought. If you didn't pay me to advertise you may not advertise on my truck.
On a competition firearm?
If the company helped me in any way to compete, then I'll make the rifle look like a NASCAR car.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone put a sticker on a gun outside of advertisimg on competition guns. I wouldn't want one on my gun.Closest thing I can think of are the Duck commander mossbergs. I think they are very tacky.
I couldn't see myself just putting a sticker or decal on a gun. Maybe if it was like the sheets of adhesive vinyl and cut them into a pattern to make a stock look cool or something, but I wouldn't just pop a sticker on there.
To each his own. I don't see why there can't be variety in guns, personalization, etc. I don't like all stickers. I don't like all camo jobs. I don't like all factory finishes either.
I did this on one of my paint jobs, put a punisher skull on the suppressor. Not a sticker/decal it was painted into the paint job, but I quickly changed it back to all black along with the gun to dark bronze color.
New paint job with no skull decal... Like it much better..
Well it looked good when it was taken on a back drop of the multicam, but when it was by itself just seemed like it was missing something. Might try it again sometime, but not tackling another multicam job for a good while. Putting on 8 different colors or paint with stenciles and clearcoat
Was looking for something more like this, think my stencils were too big and my colors were a little off, need more green and brown.
A wood gun is just as much a tool as a synthetic one when used for it's intended purpose. This does not include a boat paddle, hammer, walking stick, leverage bar, etc...