The worst DIY custom handgun job

[Vonderek]

It's a Fitzengrüber Special

 

[Dean1818]

I have seen some HORRIBLE camo jobs

 

[jmorris]

Lol, dead thread after the "Plaxico Burress" edition Glock.

Thanks for the link, I needed a laugh.

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

Has anyone thought about the legal liability about selling a gun like this? It would appear to me in today's sue for anything mentality the last thing I would want to do is sell a gun like this. Also the antis would have a field day with this one.

 

[JohnKSa]

Sadly, this might have been done professionally...

 

[YZ]

Just so they'll think it's a training dummy. Surprise!

 

[Magnuumpwr]

The glock has to be the most horrible and dangerous modification to make to any gun, handgun or any other gun for that matter!!

 

[planetmobius]

A friend of mine has a Colt Commander with a frame that was checkered by previous owner using a file. The Colt was nickel plated and the checkering was a horrible job and of course cut right through to the steel and then some.

 

[peacemaker45]

I saw a Colt Gold Cup with a gawd-awful cheap scope mounted in a contraption that replaced the right grip panel. Even then I thought about buying it, since grips are cheap, but then I saw that the ejection port had been lowered, the mag well flared, and front cocking serrations cut in, all by some idiot who tried to free hand it with an 80- grit grinding wheel. I shudder to think what was done on the inside.

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[David E]

I saw a pre-warning Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt (made for two short years before the warnings were added in 1973) that some total doofus decided to "magna-port".......himself.

Looked like he used a plug-in power drill, as the bit dug into the far side of the rifling once it penetrated the barrel. Yeah, he did the same thing on both holes.

He wanted a totally unreasonable sum for this butchered rare gun, due to the "custom" work......

 

[YZ]

True. One thing is to bubba it, another is to sell the result as something special. I swear on the Shooter's Bible that I saw a Mosin all clad in black hard plastic and Picatinny rails on consignment for $700. It was discounted several times and then gone, don't know for how much. Same LGS has a battery of original Mosins $169 apiece.

 

[herrwalther]

I saw an old Smith and Wesson SIGMA where someone had cut a rail into the dust cover with a knife.

 

[Potatohead]

and here is the auction...


http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=350865020

Is their even a glimmer of rationale involved in that? I mean, what is he getting at there?

 

[Archie]

Potatohead

My only thought for hacking off the trigger guard is to allow gloves. I wouldn't do it, but it 'sort of' makes sense. As much as the 'camo' paint job.

The worst home-made custom job I ever saw was a S&W model 10 with a buckhorn rear/bead front sight. The owner couldn't get used to the patridge type sight picture and there fore 'fixed it' himself. It wasn't a half bad job, other than he never cleaned up the bluing afterward, they don't work all that well AND it was hard to holster.

 

[ZVP]

The rifle I would be going for would be either a refirbished Diana 34 or a used one. I'd opt for the .22 caliber because it gives more M/E for hunting, bucks the wind better and punches through small brush and tall grass best. Accuracy wise it is right on par with many under and sidelever guns.' The 34 has a lot of room for modification to add velocity and smoothness and the rifle can be worked on at the Kitchen table with just a Spring Compressor.
Aftermarket parts are inexpensive and generally of good quality.
You can also get referbished 350's and 460's and often Model 48 sidelevers!
HTH,
BPDve

 

[Hacker15E]

Is it too late to suggest that ANY "race gun" fits in with this thread topic?