I used to think that my EDC, a Glock 29 was the ugliest gun that I owned. It has kind of grown on me... I mean, the thing spends so much time in contact with my hip, it's hard to give it the title.
My ugliest handgun has to be my "crime bill" era Ruger P-95. It's got a "grip" that is so awful looking and slick, it appears as if it had been carved from a bar of black soap. In order to get an actual grip on it, I had a Hogue hand-all on there, and that made it look WORSE. I didn't care for the finger grooves and the palm swell in that ugly accessory so I cut a piece of bicycle tire inner-tube to pull over it, and that works exactly how I had hoped it would. Doesn't make it much uglier, really.
And the slide isn't stainless... can't really call it blued, and it's not really dark enough to be black. It's kind of a dark plum. Pretty fugly. The muzzle end of this thing is horrific to look at. The polymer frame is anything but refined. It's got that silly "late 80s/early 90s" dish on the front of the trigger guard where someone wanted you to put a finger.
There are a lot of ugly handguns on this Earth, but as "modern" pistols go, the P-95 is right up near the top.
Funny thing is, it's not the ugliest firearm I own. That distinction belongs to a rifle... but this is a handgun forum.
My ugliest handgun has to be my "crime bill" era Ruger P-95. It's got a "grip" that is so awful looking and slick, it appears as if it had been carved from a bar of black soap. In order to get an actual grip on it, I had a Hogue hand-all on there, and that made it look WORSE. I didn't care for the finger grooves and the palm swell in that ugly accessory so I cut a piece of bicycle tire inner-tube to pull over it, and that works exactly how I had hoped it would. Doesn't make it much uglier, really.
And the slide isn't stainless... can't really call it blued, and it's not really dark enough to be black. It's kind of a dark plum. Pretty fugly. The muzzle end of this thing is horrific to look at. The polymer frame is anything but refined. It's got that silly "late 80s/early 90s" dish on the front of the trigger guard where someone wanted you to put a finger.
There are a lot of ugly handguns on this Earth, but as "modern" pistols go, the P-95 is right up near the top.
Funny thing is, it's not the ugliest firearm I own. That distinction belongs to a rifle... but this is a handgun forum.