RogerC,
Tamara, that's not ugly. What model is it?
It's a Rossi 720 Covert, with a set of hideous
faux-stag plastic grips originally intended for a square butt J-frame. (The Pachmayr
esque fingergroove rubber brick that came on it originally was large enough to make it not-so-Covert. My gunsmith and I determined that square-butt J-frame grips would fit with only minor grinding on the gun, and the only choices in town at the time were these fake stag ones or a pair of even
more hideous Mother-of-Plastic ones. I went for the Annie
Faux-kley look rather than the Pimpdaddy Luvin' one.
)
I was putting together some Wally World particleboard bookshelves not long before this picture was taken when I noticed I didn't have a hammer in the house to knock the finishing nails in. No problem, just unload the Rossi and use the butt. (Hey, Colt collectors pay
extra for those scars on a dug-up Model P!
)
I have a Nagant myself, but I figure it's cheating to enter a gun built by vodka-sodden Communists while German tanks were crashing through the factory walls in an ugly gun contest.