1911's made from the Gibeon Meteorite

[Coal Dragger]

http://robbreport.com/sports-leisur...ind-meteorite-handguns-video-exclusive-photos

Behold a pair of 1911's made from a hunk of 4 billion year old iron from outer space. Awesome.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

That's pretty cool. I don't usually go for gimmicky guns, but this is interesting to me. Now if they make a 44 special revolver out of it, I'm totally gonna cash in my 401K and sell all my stuff, and work until the day I die to buy it......

 

[Panzerschwein]

They should have made a Makarov out of it!

 

[Dframe]

I really liked the acid etching that brought out the grain. Fascinating pistol

 

[RA40]

The rock shows one can find meteorite in varying jewelry forms so seeing it like this is

 

[Polar Express]

WOW!

PE

 

[Walt Sherrill]

Pretty gun, but probably is like a highly-engraved gun, made for looking at and not for shooting (even though you could shoot it.)

 

[Coal Dragger]

Basically it is a functional piece of art work. Which is fine, they're not advertising it as some great super accurate duty pistol or anything along those lines.

 

[Bang!]

Geez, I'm drooling. I'd shoot the crap out of 'em.

 

[Good Ol' Boy]

Very cool. I love guns and love anything science related.

I wonder who will end up with them...

 

[ratt_finkel]

Officially the coolest gun ever.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I sure don't dig that trigger though. Cheesy

 

[kozak6]

Meh. It's gun shaped novelty artwork. If I won a multibillion dollar Powerball and was running out of things to spend money on, maybe.

The triggers and grips are ugly. I'd have to make them fix those. That would probably only cost another couple million.

 

[barnbwt]

If the slide is made from the rock...wait, isn't meteorite basically iron? Can't be good material for locking recesses, or am I missing something (well, other than the non-practical purpose, here)

TCB

 

[Steve S.]

If I remember my college astronomy class correctly, all of our steel guns are made from iron ore that was a product of the core of a dead star that blew zillions of years ago (all iron ore on our planet that we use is from that source). Now we can all covet our shooters from a different perspective. Good shooting.

 

[Quentin]

Steve S. is right, our sun and solar system formed from gas/debris clouds of earlier exploded stars. So it's reasonable to assume the iron on Earth is as old as the great majority of meteor/asteroids in the solar system. Pick up any rock or old rusty nail, it's pretty darn old stuff! Of course an asteroid can be frozen in time from the formation of the solar system while the Earth has gone through much change.

Cool pistols, though.

 

[bannockburn]

Don't like the hammer, the trigger is lame, and the grips are plain old ugly. Other than that no bad at all for a brace of 1911s that cost $ 4.5 million. Think I will pass on this pair.

 

[ny32182]

Yes, all naturally occurring elements heavier than hydrogen were formed through fusion in the core of a star. There is no other process for creating them.

 

[rondog]

I can't help but think of everything else I could buy/do with that pile o' cash.....

 

[RecoilRob]

As an object of art...those are tres-cool. But...I'm in agreement with those who are questioning the structural integrity of the material. It's likely not as strong and tough as properly made modern steel so I'd consider these 'looking at' guns and not to be fired.

Oh...one thing in the article claims that these are the FIRST mechanical devices EVER made by Man using a meteorite..but I think this is incorrect. Some of the Medieval swords were made from meteorites and were then thought to possess some Magical Properties...which they might very well have! But the swords were forged and properly worked to create the blades and not just hacked out like these pistols. (they ARE just hacked out..right?)

 

[barnbwt]

I think there was once a race of warrior-bears that made armor from sky-iron, also --it's gotta be easier than smelting iron from ore over a campfire, after all

I'd consider these 'looking at' guns and not to be fired.

Not unless you regularly get paper cuts counting all your million-dollar bills, I'd think

TCB

 

[Coal Dragger]

As an object of art...those are tres-cool. But...I'm in agreement with those who are questioning the structural integrity of the material. It's likely not as strong and tough as properly made modern steel so I'd consider these 'looking at' guns and not to be fired.

Oh...one thing in the article claims that these are the FIRST mechanical devices EVER made by Man using a meteorite..but I think this is incorrect. Some of the Medieval swords were made from meteorites and were then thought to possess some Magical Properties...which they might very well have! But the swords were forged and properly worked to create the blades and not just hacked out like these pistols. (they ARE just hacked out..right?)

Swords are not mechanical devices.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

Swords are not mechanical devices.

According to the various definitions of mechanical, mechanical device, or device, a sword is a device (tool), and is mechanical, but isn't a machine. A hook, for example, is considered a mechanical device.

 

[Zerodefect]

Pfff. That's nothing. I had Keith at Dan Wesson make me a Valor out of a stainless steel type metal I pulled from a alien spacecraft.

I'll sell it for $5000. And it's grips aren't even broken.

 

[H.m.B]

As an object of art...those are tres-cool. But...I'm in agreement with those who are questioning the structural integrity of the material. It's likely not as strong and tough as properly made modern steel so I'd consider these 'looking at' guns and not to be fired.

Yup. From the article, "It’s relatively soft and full of inclusions, bits of debris that hit the meteor at thousands of miles an hour millions of years ago.”