Okay, I'm seeing a lot of rifles these days offered in Sniper Gray.

Are snipers' rifles actually gray, or is this just a marketing gimmick?

Personally, I have no interest in rifles that color, but I was curious.

It's just a marketing name dreamed up by Cerakote for one of their gray shades.

Something to distinguish it from Stone Gray, Storm Gray, Shale Gray, Steel Gray, Stealth Gray, Wolf Gray, Battleship Gray, Tungsten Gray, Medium Gray, Gunmetal Gray, Cobalt Gray, Carbon Gray, Platinum Gray, Tactical Gray, Bullshark Gray, etc.

With so many shades of gray to name (one might say they have fifty...), after a while you start running out of cool-sounding words to preface "Gray" with and have to start branching out to non-directly-gray-related terms.

So no, there's nothing particularly sniper-y about a vaguely blueish-gray tone.

All food coloring added to polymer firearms is a marketing gimmick. lol Just like car colors. Question is: What is NOT a gimmick? Hmmm.

It's a Cerakote color, I've used it several times.
Just a name, I imagine if someone else marketed it, the shade could be different.

MY sniper rifle is just wood and park.

But it WAS made in 1942.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Something to distinguish it from Stone Gray, Storm Gray, Shale Gray, Steel Gray, Stealth Gray, Wolf Gray, Battleship Gray, Tungsten Gray, Medium Gray, Gunmetal Gray, Cobalt Gray, Carbon Gray, Platinum Gray, Tactical Gray, Bullshark Gray, etc.

Yes, just marketing. That said, I LOVE gray and am glad that its there in between the B, OD, FDE options now.

But what about Grey Gray?