Gun Shop WTF Of The Day - Page 1

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Posted: 2/21/2012 12:53:23 PM EDT

Customer came in with a Western Arms 12ga single shot shotgun, and then things got weird....

As you can see in the photos the barrel goes out to 18.5" then steps down, and ends with a Poly-choke. There is a scope mount base on the breech end. What is weird is someone cut thin slots in the top of the barrel and then reinforced the cut area with steel bands.

I have no idea what the hell the idea was. An attempt at "porting" the barrel? The slots go all the way thru to the bore, so I told the customer not to shoot the gun. Maybe this is the first Tapco-fucked Mossberg prototype?

Posted: 2/21/2012 12:59:44 PM EDT

[#1]

Sweet Turkey Gun Man, how much?

Posted: 2/21/2012 12:59:46 PM EDT

[#2]

I'll have a coke

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:02:41 PM EDT

[#3]

10 gauge or 12 gauge?

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:02:51 PM EDT

[#4]

from the general "look" of the gun, seems someone took a wallhanger and souped it up as a 'steampunk' prop. Is there a firing pin in it?

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:03:10 PM EDT

[#5]

That there gun be heavily bubba'd.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:05:12 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
from the general "look" of the gun, seems someone took a wallhanger and souped it up as a 'steampunk' prop. Is there a firing pin in it?

Exactly what I was thinking.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:05:25 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

10 gauge or 12 gauge?

12 Gauge

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:06:06 PM EDT

[#8]

That there's that dadgum Magnum Porting.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:06:06 PM EDT

[#9]

Old tire, string, tree, slugs... DO IT!

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:06:44 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:

from the general "look" of the gun, seems someone took a wallhanger and souped it up as a 'steampunk' prop. Is there a firing pin in it?

Exactly what I was thinking.

I thought it looked like something the Jawas would use in Star Wars. Yes it has a firing pin, so I am lost as to what the idea was.....

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:07:27 PM EDT

[#11]

Shitty Dremel fluting job.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:09:25 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Shitty Dremel fluting job.

cut all the way through. Can't tell you how many times I've done that

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:09:27 PM EDT

[#13]

That poor thing is ugly as sin.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:10:13 PM EDT

[#14]

So how bad did it kick?

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:10:14 PM EDT

[#15]

We need to get a bunch of gunsmiths together, pool their WTF files, and write a book...

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:10:16 PM EDT

[#16]

No, I won't give you $5 for that... that... what in the blue fuck is it even?

Whoever did that should be taken out back and beaten with it. Repeatedly.

They should be adjudicated mentally defective and prohibited from ever laying hands on another firearm EVER!

Then he should sue his parents, because they used his baby head as a soccer ball or some shit.

What an asshole. Fuck him and pray to God that he doesn't reproduce.

Goddamn.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:10:39 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Shitty Dremel fluting job.

RJF next "game changer" ????

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:10:41 PM EDT

[#18]

How very odd.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:12:21 PM EDT

[#19]

nevah bin dun befo

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:14:36 PM EDT

[#20]

Its a shooting match gun. They choke the guns down as tight as possible to get the tightest pattern possible.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:14:39 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

nevah bin dun befo

Changed the game and accidentally the whole thing.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:14:54 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Sweet Turkey Gun Man, how much?

LOL

I was thinking the same thing.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:17:01 PM EDT

[#23]

Someone tried to make thier own Serenity prop gun.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:17:32 PM EDT

[#24]

Turkey shoot gun?

A friend of mine bought a Winchester Model 37 with a stepped down 60" (yes 5' long) barrel at an auction. The barrel was ported with a series of 1/16" holes just before the step in the barrel. The gun had a 4x16 Tasco scope on a home made mount. Looked every bit as f'ed up as this gun.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:20:23 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
No, I won't give you $5 for that... that... what in the blue fuck is it even?
Whoever did that should be taken out back and beaten with it. Repeatedly.
They should be adjudicated mentally defective and prohibited from ever laying hands on another firearm EVER!
Then he should sue his parents, because they used his baby head as a soccer ball or some shit.
What an asshole. Fuck him and pray to God that he doesn't reproduce.

Goddamn.

Ever thought of switching to decaf???

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:24:55 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Someone tried to make thier own Serenity prop gun.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZTOBI-cxTAQ/TXknuPbLAjI/AAAAAAAABlo/uQ2k4QDrG0A/zoe-washburne.jpg

I do like those lever-action pistols for some reason. They have no practical niche in the firearms world, but I still want one.

Or maybe it is Zoe that I want....

I'll take both.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:28:18 PM EDT

[#27]

Are there a lot of meth-head gunsmiths?

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:29:07 PM EDT

[#28]

shot it

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:29:56 PM EDT

[#29]

What a mess.

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:30:58 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Its a shooting match gun. They choke the guns down as tight as possible to get the tightest pattern possible.

For spot shoots?

Posted: 2/21/2012 1:31:25 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
I'll have a coke

Posted: 2/21/2012 2:08:14 PM EDT

[#32]

That's not a true "poly-Choke"-looks more like a factory Mossberg C-Lect-Choke. Early Mossberg prototype?

Posted: 2/21/2012 2:24:31 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Sweet Turkey Gun Man, how much?

Oh, that makes sense, it's Turkish made.

Posted: 2/21/2012 2:26:41 PM EDT

[#34]

Definately Redneckified...

Posted: 2/21/2012 2:35:55 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Old tire, string, tree, slugs... DO IT!

This..and of course youtube the whole event.

Posted: 2/21/2012 2:44:21 PM EDT

[#36]

those are speed holes, they make the shot go faster

Posted: 2/21/2012 2:55:33 PM EDT

[#37]

Is that shop in Canada, by any chance?

Posted: 2/21/2012 3:06:48 PM EDT

[#38]

Posted: 2/21/2012 3:12:11 PM EDT

[#39]

Posted: 2/21/2012 3:36:27 PM EDT

[#40]

Looks like someone tried to make the ultimate turkey shoot gun. If you ever have the chance to go to some of the turkey shoots around here, you will see some contraptions.

Posted: 2/21/2012 3:45:35 PM EDT

[#41]

I see its got one of those red dot sights on top of the poly choke. Yeppers , thats a hi tech shottie there boy, prolly a custom build.

Posted: 2/21/2012 3:50:07 PM EDT

[#42]

Still Board shooters do weird things to the shotguns.

Posted: 2/22/2012 3:23:35 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
from the general "look" of the gun, seems someone took a wallhanger and souped it up as a 'steampunk' prop. Is there a firing pin in it?

That was my first thought as well. I've been thinking about doing something similar, but leaving the gun functional.

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Posted: 2/22/2012 3:33:33 AM EDT

[#44]

Yep, wall hanger turned steampunk. BTW, that is a Mossberg C-lect choke, not a polychoke.

Posted: 2/22/2012 3:45:21 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Turkey shoot gun?

A friend of mine bought a Winchester Model 37 with a stepped down 60" (yes 5' long) barrel at an auction. The barrel was ported with a series of 1/16" holes just before the step in the barrel. The gun had a 4x16 Tasco scope on a home made mount. Looked every bit as f'ed up as this gun.

This was my first impression. In my youth, I used to help out a local vol.FD with their annual Turkey Shoot. We would have all kinds of crazy Hatfield & McCoy types show up with guns as bubbafucked as that one. They built these guns specifically to win frozen turkeys and they generally did. I remember these guys would go from shoot to shoot filling their heaps with frozen turkeys until asked to leave. Does that band along the cuts look like it has an adjustment screw or some other way to "tune" the effect of the cuts on the shot?

Personally, I would probably be willing to pay $20 bucks for it just for the novelty value.

Posted: 2/22/2012 3:53:23 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
That's not a true "poly-Choke"-looks more like a factory Mossberg C-Lect-Choke. Early Mossberg prototype?

That Mossberg "C-lect a choke" was the biggest piece of crap in the World. No detants, no positive locking system. Back in the 70s I had a Mossberg Bolt-Action shotgun with that thing attached. You could maybe get off ~10 shot before the end of the barrel would go flying off the gun. Scared the Hell out of me the first time it happened. It became a moment of hilarity for my friends and myself ever time it happened since. The gun was a piece of crap all the way around. I sold it after a couple years for 1/2 what I paid for it and have not even considered the purchase of another Mossberg product ever since.