A non-ugly gun, IMO.
Posted on 08/15/2008 5:07:30 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5
Since we posted some great looking firearms, I thought it would be fun to post some of the ugliest guns in history. That's my opinion, of course. Post some of the ones you think just didn't make the grade in the looks department.
45 and 7.62x25 are worlds apart L0L but both useful.
The latter is a good varmit round or for piercing stuff
I don’t understand the idea that limiting the size of a magazine will reduce anything but the time somebody has to spend at a range, because they’re constantly changing mags and reloading them.
And joy for me moving back to Brooklyn next month. I’m probably gun run back up here as soon as I can, maybe with a friend or two, or maybe even move close to a CT FReeper. Hopefully I could get a job with Ruger or Colt, too. CT’s laws aren’t exactly the best, and we even have a preemption law, but, long guns aren’t required to be registered, nor do you need a permit to purchase/own one. But they’re certainly much better than that of NY or NJ.
Gonna run back up here****************
Not gun run
Crap, there goes the neighborhood...
I think the term I used / wanted to present was wildcat caliber conversion . I agree as to the stock punch ability yet wouldn’t carry for personal defense as a primary choice in original caliber. Yet a 7.62x25 with a good modern launcher and load combination with a speer gold dot hollow point or other good design etc ........possibilities are ....:o)
There is one of those in a ruger blackhawk at my gunrunners shop !
Cool looking , yet I know squat about that caliber.....will read up !
I haven’t figured out the appeal for the Bren or the BAR. It seems like a lot of weight for something with a twenty round magazine.
I do like the Grease Gun.
That is one beautiful gun. Too bad about selling it. Couldn’t you have picked up aluminum cans along a highway for the money?
If that is the measure, they were very sucessful indeed!! ;)
The Ruger Black Hawk was offered with a spare 9 mm cylinder for some reason. So the .357/.44 B&D was wildcatted as a necked down .44 mag case and the spare cylinder was reamed for it. The original had good ballistics but had a nasty habit of backing up and locking the cylinder up
There was a redo called the Dreadnaught that had a sharper shoulder to reduce that problem and it worked OK ( I have the specs). But then the .357 Maximum came out and they both failed togeather.
I don’t have either, but the .357 SIG seems to be the modern version. I want the Dreadnaught, and keep looking for the .357/9mm Black Hawk and the time to play...
Agree....LOL ! I wish it were that easy....we have always lived well within our means yet there were times when an emergency came up or such with kids and family, vehicle repair and cash was short when I was just young serviceman until our kids were older and in school and my wife was commissioned and entered the service. I hated selling a gun and can remember every gun I ever sold .....painfully !
Had to do what ya had to do !......:o)
We had a discussion about that on an email list. We crowned the M3 "the world's finest cheap-ass SMG". Treadheads especially loved it. Crude as it was, it did the intended job of throwing out a lot of .45ACP at close range. Pretty good return on investment for what probably cost $10 to build.
Yep yep yep !!!
I remember the 357/9mm combo guns. I have the 45 auto spare cylinder combo with my 45 Colt Blackhawk.
That one in the gun store may well be one of those convertables. Might be worth a look.
I make my regular Saturday pilgrimage to my gunrunners cave in the AM. Will check if it’s still there get some pics with the blackberry etc and post tomorrow evening ....... I will investigate !!
I’ll dig up info. I bet Brownells has dies if they don’t come with it.
G’night.
You ready to get pics for us of Denver burning in a few days ? Just the glow on the horizon should be a great pic !!
Well, I am ready...
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the grease gun with the silencer was cool. We would sit out by the end of the flight line and shoot at stuff. It simply went ploink ploink, the action was louder than the report out the barrel.
Well, actually it IS a hunk of crap! They were produced in 5 seconds, stamped from cheap sheet metal. It was a brilliant piece of guerilla tactics (as the Muzzies use against us today). They were useless to the enemy, but could give the vastly out-gunned and out-classed Europeans a small and inexpensive chance to take out a Nazi and take HIS effective weapon!
Interesting how even the ugliest gun are still a thing of beauty!
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