Let’s see your ugly gun!

[Rpg]

We see a lot of beautiful guns here. We have folks worried about slight blemishes on their guns.

But there are a lot of badly dinged up guns, guns with signs of hard use or screamingly terrible maintenance, that are perfectly useful but ugly as sin.

One of mine is the 1917 below: at some time in the last 100 years, it fell on some hard times. It’s ugly as sin; it has no original finish and a ton of corrosion, but it’s right at home in a saddle bag or a tool box. It shoots just fine: it’s a real truck gun.

Let’s see your ugly guns!

 

[CH4]

My dad’s butchered victory that served as his off duty/plain clothes gun.
Sorry no Rugers...

 

[LVSteve]

As a milsurp collector I shall refrain from contributing pictures of all my ugly guns in case I kill all the forum bandwidth.

 

[Echo40]

I don't actually think this gun is ugly, in fact I think it's cool, but folks in general say it's ugly, so...

Taurus Judge Magnum with Altamont Super Rosewood Grips.

 

[mk70ss]

Here is mine. An old High Standard Sentinel 9 shot .22. Dull finish, flaking nickel, and generally an unattractive gun. But it goes bang every time, puts bullets where they are aimed, and has been carried many a mile outside.

 

[arjay]

Excam 22. Bought it 40+ yrs ago,won’t hit the side of a barn from the inside,take it out every 10 yrs or so....nerp.. [emoji23]

 

[Echo40]

Oops, I actually forgot about this guy, probably because I don't like to think about it...

This is a MilSurp Romanian Tokarev TTC that I purchased online last Summer. It was the second gun that I ever purchased online sight unseen, and I went through a lot of stress over it because it was completely the opposite of what it was described online, that being "VG-Ex Condition -- Meticulously refinished and reconditioned" when it was in fact rusted, with a worn finish complete with scratches and grips that appear to be warped/partially melted by some form of heat exposure. To top it all off, the safety lever fell out the first time that I broke it down for cleaning.

Oh, and it's important to note that the picture posted above was taken AFTER I had cleaned it up. Sadly, the "Before" pictures I had taken were lost, but then again, it looked so bad before that it's probably for the best.

 

[.357magger]

Ugly to many, beautiful to me.

This is the first handgun I ever fired, the one my Dad taught me to shoot with.

H&R "Sidekick " Slabside Model 929 circa 1958ish.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Done own one. But. One of the ugliest guns ever make( including glocks) was the plastic Ramline .22 auto pistol.

 

[LVSteve]

OK, I'll do one. Mexican Model 1910 Mauser rifle made in 1931. Quite a few of these went to Spain and fought in their civil war. Afterwards they were nicely refinished. Clearly, mine isn't one of those. The black paint and the rack stencils were not applied yesterday or the day before. The stock looks like it caught the barbed wire fence at the border when it was tossed North. Bore isn't too bad.

 

[Safestuffer]

 

[GaryHK]

Anxiously awaiting for someone to post a Kel Tec Sub 2000

 

[Golddollar]

You'd wonder how that gun got to looking like that.

 

[sandog]

My ugly gun is a 1969 Belgian made Browning SA-22. I got it for cheap as it needed a new buttstock ( old one was patched up and split from improper take-down) missing several parts and rust on the receiver and barrel. I couldn't remove all the rust and pitting so I Cerakoted it grey.
It's ugly but man does it shoot nice, better than the 1964 Belgian next to it.

 

[jbtrucker]

I sold a ugly banged up Model 10 and bought a ugly on the inside Model 19-2 that cleaned up good . Has holster wear on cylinder and barrel but is a smooth action shooter .

 

[RobertJ.]

I actually posted this before, in a thread I titled, "My Ugliest Rifle".

It's a bubba'd Yugoslavian Mauser. But it shoots pretty good, that group was shot at 100 yards:

 

[LVSteve]

I actually posted this before, in a thread I titled, "My Ugliest Rifle".

It's a bubba'd Yugoslavian Mauser. But it shoots pretty good, that group was shot at 100 yards:

Yeah, a typically bubba'd Mauser. Is it a 98 with a non-matching bolt and stock or a 24/47?

 

[boykinlp]

Here is one of mine. It is a 1949 Pre-10. The Sambar Stag grips on it in this picture, pretty it up very nicely!
Larry

 

[GaryHK]

I thought pulling stuff from the Titanic wreck was illegal...

 

[Echo40]

You'd wonder how that gun got to looking like that.

I imagine that it was quite literally a tackle box gun, owned by an avid fisherman living by the coast, who never took it out and cleaned/lubricated it.