Why?? Why do this? Aka ugliest S&W ever

Well, I'm red-green colorblind and could tell straight off what color it was, so it must be fairly glowing to normal people. It's pretty obvious that fire-plug paint is both thick and recent; ergo that frame is pitted to bejeezus and back.

Let's all lay off the seller; he's punished himself enough :D

"That abomination is for sale in New York? Doesn't that violate that law they made against painting/DuraCoating firearms, the one they came up with to prevent them from being mistaken for toys by kids?"

Sadly, "not sure if serious." :(

TCB
 
If you can't say something nice, don't say anything.Nice grips.
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Nope - not even the grips get a pass.
The right grip has a big chunk chipped out of it.
Look at a blow up of the picture.
 
Guess I'm old school (48 years old) but there are 2 finishes a revolver, scratch that any handgun should be.
Blued or nickel.
 
It's original I'll give him that.

Frankly, it once again comes down to "If you don't like it, don't buy it."

I don't get the outrage. It's just a hunk of metal, maybe it was already trashed, pitted, rusted...

Sheesh, calm down everyone. It's not like someone spray-painted a puppy.
 
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I don't get the outrage. It's just a hunk of metal, maybe it was already trashed, pitted, rusted...

Sheesh, calm down everyone. It's not like someone spray-painted a puppy.
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My thoughts exactly. I wouldn't pay $5.00 for it, but I don't care that somebody did it. It's just a gun. They make millions of them.

My only thought is you'd think the seller would have cleaned it off to make it easier to sell, but other than that...big deal.
 
Several years ago, I worked for a shop that went through a change in ownership. The prior owner's gunsmith left behind several guns that customers had never picked up. Some of these went back to the 1990's.

One of them was a Model 10 that had been painted woodland camo. Now, when I say "camo," well...

Imagine feeding fruit cake to an excitable Labrador retriever. Now take the dog for a ride on the Space Mountain roller coaster. Repeat this process several times. The stuff he horks up is the closest approximation I can think of to the color scheme on this gun.

Anyhow, the owner's phone had long since been disconnected, so we destroyed the gun. Guess who showed up a year after that (and 16 years after the gun had been left for service)? Yep. He was irate that we didn't have Bertha.

All I could ask was, "why were you so angry at that gun?"
 
Ugly is an effective anti theft measure. I know that a little bit of odd paint prevented ladders and scaffolding from leaving a job site overnight. Being the only other guy in town with a pink ladder would look suspicious.
 
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