jamesjames
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I just about can't help myself. When I get a new gun, or one that's new to me, I invariably change something on it. Changing sights, grips, dehorning the sharp edges and pointy ends.
It got really bad (or really good, depending on how you view these things) with my last acquisition. I picked up a used Beretta PX4 Sub Compact in .40 S&W on Gunbroker for a good price. Because it wasn't NIB, I felt like I could improve on some of the features that bugged me. The PX4 sub has short grips that you can get 2 fingers on and wrap your pinky under (it also has the cheezy pull-down front lip, but who has time for that?). I'm used to this pinky-wrap grip technique with j-frames. But the bottom plate of the magazine is made with a sharp edge. It also happens to be a generous 1/8 inch thick or more plastic, so I went to work with sandpaper radiusing the edge. Now I can wrap my pinky under it the way God and Sargent Joe Friday intended.
The bi-lateral (ambi) safety/decocker lever is notorious for sticking out a country mile, catching on everything and bruising your kidney from inside the holster. I took a sander to those levers and reshaped them to hug the sides of the slide, rounding edges with pattern files and grinding 3 new grooves into the surface for better grip.
Mind you, I did not alter the mechanical function of the safety/decocker even though Beretta offers low-profile and "stealth" versions of the lever for $45 and a "G" model decocker only mod.
I don't know if its OCD, or the hidden sculptor/gunsmith in me trying to express himself, but I have an unquenchable urge to improve, de-horn, and make better just about every platform that comes into my possession. Obsession or Passion? What are your gun mod stories? I'm less interested in bubba-ed gun mods like sawed-off shotguns and Fitzed revolvers. I'm more interested in how your "mod" made it feel and work purrrfect in your hand.
It got really bad (or really good, depending on how you view these things) with my last acquisition. I picked up a used Beretta PX4 Sub Compact in .40 S&W on Gunbroker for a good price. Because it wasn't NIB, I felt like I could improve on some of the features that bugged me. The PX4 sub has short grips that you can get 2 fingers on and wrap your pinky under (it also has the cheezy pull-down front lip, but who has time for that?). I'm used to this pinky-wrap grip technique with j-frames. But the bottom plate of the magazine is made with a sharp edge. It also happens to be a generous 1/8 inch thick or more plastic, so I went to work with sandpaper radiusing the edge. Now I can wrap my pinky under it the way God and Sargent Joe Friday intended.
The bi-lateral (ambi) safety/decocker lever is notorious for sticking out a country mile, catching on everything and bruising your kidney from inside the holster. I took a sander to those levers and reshaped them to hug the sides of the slide, rounding edges with pattern files and grinding 3 new grooves into the surface for better grip.
Mind you, I did not alter the mechanical function of the safety/decocker even though Beretta offers low-profile and "stealth" versions of the lever for $45 and a "G" model decocker only mod.
I don't know if its OCD, or the hidden sculptor/gunsmith in me trying to express himself, but I have an unquenchable urge to improve, de-horn, and make better just about every platform that comes into my possession. Obsession or Passion? What are your gun mod stories? I'm less interested in bubba-ed gun mods like sawed-off shotguns and Fitzed revolvers. I'm more interested in how your "mod" made it feel and work purrrfect in your hand.