Beautiful...or atrocious?.

Messed up as a football bat

Oh look...this is the chicken pox party commemorative.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/780017790

That's an overly engraved, gaudy, cowboy pimp style chunk of "Nope!"

Almost all examples of "BBQ guns" just strike me as ugly. With the spur, that one adds stupid to its resume.

Scrap it for the grips.

I can appreciate the engraving. A lot of time and work went into it. I LOVE the wood grips...that is some fine figured wood.

The spur and front sight...I get it, but don't want it.

For $52,000, I'll pass. I'd pay $300 to get the grips and have a professional gunsmith remove and replace the front sight and remove the ridiculous spur.

Having a German gun outfitted like it was made in Texas just don't fit.

WAAAY too much "wrong" with this gun.

With Texas edition, GUN STIPLES YOU

Around the turn of the last century, a noted maven of art and decorating was asked what constituted "good taste". Her answer; "Good taste is that which is appropriate". That gun would go well with my snake shaped ashtray with googley eyes.

$52K with a spur to rake your hand when firing...what kind of dope does one smoke that makes this sound like a good idea?

This has to be the stupidest thing I have seen in a while...at least “gun” wise, anyway.

Yuck

You know, for me, the spur at the end of the beavertail puts this in the category of stupid.




I want something I can shoot. A pistol that puts roundel marks in the the forearm of the shooter, or in his side when holstered, I don't think this was well thought out.

Maybe it will be in the next big movie. Super Tex using it to establish justice in the world, with his Cowboy gun. Maybe Super Tex also rides a motorcycle with horns as handle bars, wooden wagon wheel spokes, and has spurs as the gear shift.

WestKentucky said:

Oh look...this is the chicken pox party commemorative.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/780017790

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Wow. Ok, I understand the fine machine work needed to set all those studs, and so uniformly, but, wow, that is not pretty.

Mind, all of this falls in the realm of objets d'arte; none of these are meant to be shot; these are all for a glass case on the wall, or a drawer some where.

A "Q" gun is meant to be useful, if tarted up a bit. And, really, a barbecue gun needs a matched fancy holster.

CapnMac said:

Wow. Ok, I understand the fine machine work needed to set all those studs, and so uniformly, but, wow, that is not pretty.

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You know, if the controls were mirror polished stainless and all those weird gold studs weren't in it, I'd actually find that gun attractive. I'd call it The Incan since it's reminiscent of their stone work.

Hmmmmm, should I buy a new truck or this "Texas on Acid" pistol?

Decisions decisions.

If a person likes it, great, I find it uglier than ugly. However, to me, a handgun is a tool.

No real Texan would ever want a handgun that silly.
That handgun is like chili with beans.
It is what a Yankee thinks when he thinks Texas.

I'm thinking of all the truly awesome, unique guns I could get with $52,000 (which is about $68,500 here).

I'd never admit I owned, bought or even liked such an ornate alien of a firearm....... unless I was drunk.

crestoncowboy said:

Bet it shoots low. Even with a sig combat hold. And for 52k, Must come with some of that intellectual property that the government keeps procuring. Not sure about the extended beaver spur/wartenberg wheel though.

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I’ll bet it has a hidden flint in the spokes to light up a cee-gar.

I’ll pass for even a $5.20 minimum bid... to return it to shooting shape would probably cost more than a new P-220 does...

Stay safe!

tarosean said:

Well this Texan thinks its fugly

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Ditto.

My first thought was, "I wonder how much it would cost to fix that mess"

I'd appreciate it if they'd call it the "Idiot Texan Edition" so as to not disparage the rest of us.

The lines on the work aren't precise enough at any cost, the shape of some of the stars aren't uniform, there are saguaro cacti on the left side that aren't in Texas, and the way Texas is in engraved is not consistent enough to be considered professional work in my opinion. If I were paying for engraving I would expect it to be much more precise and elegant than what that has.

All I could think of is instead of working to bring the 225a1 to Massachusetts, they were busy building THAT thing....