I don't think I could bring my self to spray paint any of my guns. When I used camo tape on my nova for turkey season I couldn't bring myself to put tape on anything that wasn't synthetic, i.e. the stock and forarm is all I taped up. If you spray paint a gun you have de-valued it a great deal. If you have it diped you have perhaps raised the value. So, I would say that the cost of the spray paint may be only $5 but the cost of lost value would be much more. Depending on the value of the gun to start with the value could drop as much as the cost of the dipping. If I had an old beat up gun with a bad finish and the stock's finsh was in poor shape well then I would consider the "RED GREEN SPRAY PAINT SPECIAL" otherwise I am going to invest in my gun not ruin it.