Do you personalize your guns?

[Dr.Rob]

Not much of mine stays stock. Especially AR's. Everyone customizes those.

My 'stock' 6920 has a different grip, flash hider, and sling than it shipped with.

Most of my handguns have replacement grips of some kind. Only exceptions I can think of are a stock FEG Pa-63/AP 9, a stock Detonics Mk2 Combat Master , a stock Colt 1908 vest pocket pistol and a couple black powder pistols I shoot rarely.

 

[CajunBass]

Generally speaking I like mine to be as "stock out of the box" as they can be, but I recently got a set of bonded ivory grips for a Model 58 Smith & Wesson, mostly because they were cheaper than a set of factory grips would have been.

I also have one old Sears shotgun I painted camo because it was cheaper than refinishing it.

 

[Deus Machina]

If they need it.
The only guns I haven't changed the grips on are my Ruger 22/45 (they're molded on) and my CZ PCR (they're perfection). On the other hand, my CZ got tritium sights since it's my carry gun.

Grips are a big thing. Manufacturers either put the tiniest possible grips on things because they're super-compact, or ignore that some people don't have XL glove-sized hands and put big blocky things on.

 

[herrwalther]

It took me awhile to come around but yes I do. For a long while I was against adding anything other than stock to a firearm. Being a poor college student made me rather frugal and still am to an extent. So if it wasn't ammo or a holster, didn't think I needed it.

These days it has changed, at least a little. If I KNOW I am going to keep a firearm, yes I will change it to suit me. Sights, grips, change up a rail section, sling mounts where I like them etc.

 

[Elkins45]

I have reshaped stocks, reshaped bolt handles and installed sight bases on a couple of mil slurp Mauser actions. I have installed night sights on carry guns. I have swapped laminated stocks onto hunting rifles. At some point in the near future I plan on sanding the finger grooves off of a Glock. I stippled the frame of my 1911 with a punch and hammer.

In each case I realized I was probably lowering the resale value, but it was worth it to me.

 

[ivankerley]

I "personalized" a couple.

One is a Rossi Ranch Hand that I wanted to shorten to be able to carry in Oklahoma. It had to be under 16 inches long. (I sell these now.)

The other filled my need to have a 308 bullpup with wood furniture. It began life as a Springfield M1A SOCOM.(Don't worry, it can be returned to its original stock. Nothing was done to alter the basic rifle.) The top half can be exchanged to a low profile piece of furniture that facilitates installing an Eotech red dot (or other) sight.


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Woody

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that is slick and totally not what i was expecting to see, reminds me a little of the rifles from planet of the apes, they were reworked M1 carbines
really cool
gene

 

[rszwieg]

One modification I made to my hunting rifles was to drill a hole under the buttplate to store a couple of rounds of spare ammo wrapped in vapor paper. My air rifle stock got the same treatment for extra pellets. That's an old woodsman's trick.

Handguns often get new grips and sights.

 

[jmorris]

The ones I use I do. Some are for just looking at and others are like the bed of my pickup truck and show signs of daily use.

 

[45223]

I do but I don't make anything permanent. Just accessories that can be taken off. Although I'll probably eventually paint and or more permanently customize my .22s and other "fun guns".

My collector rifles I definitely don't do any permanent changes.

My self defense guns only get whatever upgrades to make their purpose easier.

 

[alexander45]

There have been some I have done new sights on my rossi and drilling out the stock sling swivel/barrel screw to take a quick detach one , put a gi guide rod in my 1911 , and others I have wanted to do but didn't because it turned out I liked the stock bits like the rubber grips on my rock island tactical, they don't look super great but I really like the way they feel