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Posted: 4/21/2009 10:48:40 AM EDT
If you be involved with firearms for any length of time you've come across heart breaking ruinations of a fineweapons. In my case it was a pre-war PPK. Saw it at a gun shop run by a friend. He said take a look at this. I looked at it real quick and was impressed until he told me to look at the muzzle. There were three holes drilled through the front of the slide that surrounds the barrel. Apparently some..."person", not knowing that the PPK didn't have a removable bushing had drilled the holes to use some makeshift spanner wrench to remove the non existing bushing so they could get the slide off. To add insult to stupidity the cretin had put the gun in a vise and bent the frame. Since then I've seen "Nickeled" Lugers, "Sawed Off" L.C. Smith shotguns, etc, etc. Any other horror stories out there? Better yet, any culprits willing to own up to their own transgressions?
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An M1 Carbine duct taped together. Still worked fine, just pathetic to look at.
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Ever see one of those CA legal AR stocks? This or dremel fluting |
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Quoted: Cue "dremel flute" My first thought upon seeing the title. That said, I don't generally get too worked up over what someone else chooses to do with his own firearms. YMMV. |
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Seems I remember some hood rats that stole a Purdy and sawed the barrels down.
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Seen a .30-40 Krag with the bumper chrome on it...it was chopped up as well. Someone put a lyman peep sight on there as well as a new front sight base that was bronze brazed onto the shortened barrel...I could hardly tell what it was aside from the distinctive receiver area of the rifle which was covered in that hideous bumper chrome.
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i have a williams catalouge from 1957 that has pages and pages of sporter conversions they offered for military rifles.
the shit in that catalouge will make a grown man cry, picture an m1 garand in a montecarlo stock with front and rear sights removed and then replaced with b-square type scope mount bolted on the side with a traditional ramped brass bead front sight soldered on the front. but the worst (not a willams conversion but worthy of them) by far was a johnson m-1941 that was modified to take remington 741 magazines |
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Ever see one of those CA legal AR stocks? http://lee.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/riflesfull.jpg The Horror! |
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If it weren't so painful.....
I'd post a pic of what was a very nice 1903 that my FIL turned into a 'sporter'. |
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I once saw a bubbafied deer rifle version of an Arisaka ,with an intact chrysanthimum on the receiver, at a gun show. If it had not been bubbafied, it would have been worth a small fortune.
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http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220093.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220098.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220100.jpg Hurt my eyes, help, flush eyes out with water, eyes hurtttttttt AHHHHHHHHHH |
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I havent tapcoed a gun yet, but i did ATI a mosin and a sks.
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Saw a 1917 era 1911 that some idiot had chrome plated... Poorly.
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http://mysite.verizon.net/mvolkj/colt45/colt1911a1.jpg Hmmm... http://mysite.verizon.net/mvolkj/colt45/colt1911a1c.jpg Oops. Yes, it's an otherwise original, very lightly used '44 Colt. -Mark I wonder if that is one of the 10 stolen off my ship in "75" or "76"???.........one of them was recovered by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, It was used in a bank robbery in Canada. Came back to us as a chunk o rust |
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Quoted: http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220093.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220098.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220100.jpg WTF, it looks like someone melted a polyester sock with a heat gun on that thing. DYK the story on that? |
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http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220093.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220098.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220100.jpg WTF, it looks like someone melted a polyester sock with a heat gun on that thing. DYK the story on that? There's not much to say. Somebody did a homemade stippling job to improve the grip texture on a Glock with a soldering iron or a woodburner. If he was simply going for grip, whoever did that did a good job. If he was going for esthetics too, FAIL! I've seen people who've done AR stocks and Glocks with a burner or iron where they had a good hand and a good eye, and it looks like it was molded that way at the Glock factory, or compares to the best work done by Glock smiths who offer this kind of work. Not so much this... |
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http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220093.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220098.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220100.jpg WTF, it looks like someone melted a polyester sock with a heat gun on that thing. DYK the story on that? http://www.glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=848513 Some of them look pretty decent...others make the Baby Jesus cry. |
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My neighbor took a BEAAAAAUUUUUTIFUL brand new SA M1A Super Match, and took it out of the stock, put it in an entry style stock, put an aimpoint and surefire on it, and I'm not sure, but I think he also cut the barrel later on.
Fucking broke my heart.
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I saw a Browning Superposed that some moron had cut down to make a "coach gun".
He needed his nuts cut off. |
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http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220093.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220098.jpg http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc181/Sturmgewehr-58/PA220100.jpg There was a member here that did a far worse job on a Glock than that a few years back. I doubt his pics are still available though. |
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Ever see one of those CA legal AR stocks? This times 1000000000!! I saw one of those "horse leg" stocks on one the other day and it was the ugliest thing I have EVER seen on a gun. |
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Something to do with getting thrown down a driveway to look used.
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My heart stopped when I saw that. Utter tragedy. As a guy saving his pennies for one of those: introduce me to the motherfucker who did that, and I'll rip his God damned throat out. |
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saw an antique over and under that had been stolen then the thief cut her down into a sbs and used it to rob a pizza place of 60 dollars.......
i heard the weapon was worth around 20k |
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Truth? How about thehundreds of thousands of M1s and M-14s that Klinton had destroyed by Captain Crunch?
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http://www.glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=848513 Some of them look pretty decent...others make the Baby Jesus cry. Good Lord. |
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Cue "dremel flute" That and dusty's soldering iron stipling on his grock pistol. |
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My heart stopped when I saw that. Utter tragedy. As a guy saving his pennies for one of those: introduce me to the motherfucker who did that, and I'll rip his God damned throat out. I got it back (from IL...I'm in PA Now). Had a local shop park it to kill any remaining rust. An Uncle (who helps a gunsmith) has it for a while to see if anything else can be done for it. All the rust is external (almost nothing under the grips, in the frame, etc. Looks like the guy that got it put it in a trunk instead of carrying it... AFARR |
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Mother of God!!!!! The New Orleans pimp who created that monstrosity should have it shoved up his ass!! |
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I got it back (from IL...I'm in PA Now). Had a local shop park it to kill any remaining rust. An Uncle (who helps a gunsmith) has it for a while to see if anything else can be done for it. All the rust is external (almost nothing under the grips, in the frame, etc. Looks like the guy that got it put it in a trunk instead of carrying it... AFARR Damn. Just damn. I'm sorry for you and the pistol. |
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Why does everyone have to keep posting these poor P210's? It's enough to make a man cry. |
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Ever see one of those CA legal AR stocks? This or dremel fluting Oh shit, I forgot all about the Dremel Fluting job |
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