Worst thing done to a gun?

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1911maniac

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I just seen what hapens when a guy takes steel wool to a brand new kimber custom,and it aint a pretty sight.He said he did not like the texture of the parkerized finish!
Course what i think happened was he didn`t like the scratch in the slide and frame when he put the slide stop in !
So what crazy things have yall seen done to ruin perfectly good guns ?

maniac!
 
Envision this....

A 4-digit Savage 1899 rifle in .32-40... Good bore, very good bluing, and one of the most beautiful pieces of wood that I have ever seen on a production rifle...

Scope mounts...

Not drilled and tapped into the gun...

Brazed onto the receiver...

BRAZED!

I almost cried...
 
Worst thing done to a gun? How about Klinton chopping up all those WWII pieces for scrap? Another reason to hate him...

I once saw a hard chromed Glock, not a dull matte chrome...we are talking trailer hitch gleaming chrome! Made an ungodly ugly pistol beyond words!

A guy showed up at the range a few weeks ago with a shiny neon orange stocked 1903 Springfield. Ye gods...that is just wrong.

Ok, mine are cosmetic I admit it. I have seen some police trade in Smiths where the action was rusted closed. Gives you the chills to see such neglect.
 
This one is only partially my fault. In my early days as a shooter/gun owner, I thought I wanted a scope on my Mini-14. The Ranch Rifle, with its integral mounts, wasn't available at the time, since it had only been 2 years since the RR first appeared in Ruger's catalog.

The receiver needed 2 holes drilled & tapped for the mount. The local gunsmith assured me it would be done "in 3 days", or something. I went to get it 3 days later, and another employee looked around and said it wasn't done yet. I said something like, "What's the matter? The 'smith said it would be done in 3 days". The clerk gave me a look of disbelief and said, "3 days? To refinish a stock?" *cold, sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach*

It turned out the "gunsmith" (read butcher) had had trouble tapping the holes - the steel was too hard, he said. So he had tried to soften the steel with a torch. As if that weren't bad enough, the moron hadn't bothered to take the action out of the stock, and he burned the wood with the torch. Then he did a half-assed refinishing job (burn mark still visible), and never did tap the holes. He also didn't charge me for the "work" - how generous. The gun still works as well as it ever did, and it's "just" a Mini-14, but I haven't taken a gun to a gunsmith since. I'd like to think this POS was a tiny minority, but I wouldn't count on it.

And he was Bob Sandoval of Las Cruces, NM.
 
Picture a fine old English double rifle. Smooth lines, graceful, almost alive in your hands. Flawless wood, hand-fitted metal, understated engraving, a classic rendition of an era long past.

Then picture some SOB drilling, tapping and mounting a 3-9X scope on it.

Bozo in brought that in to my favorite gunsmith and wanted to know why his rifle wouldn't shoot a one-hole group.

:mad:LawDog
 
Pictures of the Aussie goverment chopping up all the FN-FALs.As bad as murder

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My Grandfather was a former Detroit cop (1920's) and when he passed away, was the mayor of Pleasant Ridge, MI (a small town just north of Detroit). My father took Granddad's service revolver to the local PD for them to "keep" for him while his kids grew up. We have never seen the pistol since. (My father was a idiot sometimes but never anti-gun. I have no idea why he did this.)

That's the worst thing I've seen happen to a gun.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Zeebrahed:
I once saw a hard chromed Glock, not a dull matte chrome...we are talking trailer hitch gleaming chrome! [/quote]

I though Tupperware was so slick nothing stuck to it... how did he get the chrome to stick. Oh... wait... I got it... Model Glue!

BWAHHAHAHAHAHAH

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NRA Life, Lodge 1201-UOSSS
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[This message has been edited by Schmit (edited April 26, 2000).]
 
My own stupidity ruined two heirlooms.

My parents presented me with their old .22 rifles when I became of age. These two guns were theirs when they were growing up back in the late 30s early 40s. They even used to go hunting together when they were dating. A couple of years go by....

I was out on my own, living in a college dorm. College dorms, of course, have a no weapons policy so I had my guns stored in cases in the trunk of my car, behind the spare tire on the shelf over the rear axle. Back window leaked. Gun cases got wet. Months go by....

I pulled the guns out to go shooting and they were rusted into the cases. Guns were totally destroyed. I cut them up with a band saw and disposed of the pieces.

I have no one to blame but myself!
 
WWII commerative M1, The ones advertised in "American Rifleman". Gold plated parts, awesome wood, royal blue. Rough sandpapered, (Metal and wood) painted in snow camoflage scheme (Why? this is South Texas) buttstock cut off and a "T" stock from a Mac 11 carbine welded to back of receiver. (crooked) 4X Tasco scope in Tasco universal mount hacksawed to fit. Mount drilled and tapped into side of receiver, 2nd try. Three extra holes evident, wood whittled to fit. Owners DL number engraved with vibrating pen into right side of receiver. Being sold in an Austin gunshop with "Springfield M1D/ 650$" on the pricetag.
 
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!

$6.50 you said? I'd pay $6.50, just to be able to give the thing a decent burial. Wait a minute! He could take it to Kali; they'll buy ANYTHING!
 
Enfieldj,

<whimper, whimper> :(

I really want an M-1, but this one has to be waaaaay too fugly.

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Daewoo DP51, was left at my local gun store. Apparently the last owner had decided to give it a trigger job, with his dremel tool (bad idea). When he ground the entire mechanism out of the gun, (I haven't figured this next part out yet) he welded a lock washer to the outside of the frame, that was somehow the new bearing surface. He then took it back to the store where he bought it, and tried to return it under "warranty". The store owner laughed at him, and the guy just left it there. The owner left the gun out for everybody to see for quite a while, I don't know what ever happened to it.

At the local shooting range (just outside of Logan, UT) there is a barrel from an old .38 special hanging on the wall, the barrel is split wide open, inside the split you can make out at least five, possibly six bullets squished on top of each other. Its hard to tell how many because they are so deformed into a solid plug of lead and jacket. It is pretty cool looking.

When my Dad was a kid he was driving his motorcycle down the road, on the bike was his 870. (This was on a farm, never know when there will be something important to shoot). While he was cruising along, the gun slipped out from its holder, and went banging down the road. It had a bad case of Wingmaster roadrash, scratched and dented everything, put a bunch of gravel into the barrel. The funny thing is he still has that shotgun, and it still works perfectly. Its ugly as sin, and there isn't a lot of finish left on it, but it works really well. (gotta love 870's).

Sorry I started rambling.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Correia:
He then took it back to the store where he bought it, and tried to return it under "warranty".[/quote]
?????LOL Nice to hear there are some people in the world dumber than I am.
Wonder what kind of oil he uses in his lawn mower, Crisco?
 
I read an account recently of a gang-banger who had blown his... equipment off with an inside-the-tent (pants) sawed-off shotgun. Reported to have been... A Winchester 101 Pigeon Grade. (muffle sobs)
 
Watching my father in law hold his Pre 64 .270 in one hand, and jam a cleaning rod down the muzzle end of the rifle. Upon my suggestion of using a bore guide,"No, this is the way I have always done it." Explains the foot of angle groups at 100 yards.
 
Back when it was legal, A buddy and I wanted a sawed off shotgun, so that's exactly what we did (with a hacksaw), sawed most of the barrel off a 20 Ga. 870! Didn't cut it square and you had to aim 3 feet to the right of a target to hit with enough pellets to count! :rolleyes:

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I thought I'd seen it all, until a 22WMR spun a bunny 2 1/4 times in the air!
 
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