Estate Disaster.....do not read this!!!!!!!

[Breakaway500]

Some people just can't leave anything alone. Boredom?

Don't get me wrong..I modify stuff..BUT I have a purpose for those mods..like going faster..hitting targets better etc etc.

I have seen many people do things just because nobody is there to tell them why they shouldn't. Don't convert your 2012 Silverado to carburetor and points..don't put that lawn mower engine in your Subaru. Sure you could..but..WHY? Sometimes I just have to say... hey..it's yours...so have at it! Just don't ask me to help you...

 

[rct269]

Methinks the greatest contribution to my enlightenment and enjoyment from this thread comes in Post #20, where I'm introduced to the great new alliteration of "shirt-snagger".

That right there is one of the all time greats!!

Ralph Tremaine

 

[Truckman]

There will be another to take his place.

As one falls, many rise to the challenge......Ben

 

[mikerjf]

I'm reminded of a guitar I saw decades ago… very early Strat, s/n 495, had been in a fire and was lightly charred around the edges. No finish, P90 neck pickup, and… rhinestones added, all around the headstock every inch or so! Not for sale as it was "a real collector, under #500!".

 

[heckinohio]

mikerjf.......look up the history of Bill ????? guitar from the late '70s rocker 'Black Betty'.......may not be earth-shattering, but is interesting.

PJH

 

[heckinohio]

Images for engraved gun.....

PJH

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[kev74]

I've got a couple of cool guns in my collection that I wouldn't have been able to afford if the previous owners didn't work to make them their own. I'm ok with the modifications - especially a couple that had been owned by friends who aren't around anymore.

It wasn't such sacrilege to bubba a gun when they were a dime a dozen, especially the milsurps. If I ever get a time machine, I'm going to go back and buy all those Garands, carbines and SKSs they used to sell out of barrels at Woolworths.

 

[Mbrgr1]

I wouldn't mind....

snagging my shirt on that 22!

 

[Rudi]

Bubba has a big family.

 

[diecidecimi]

Images for engraved gun.....

PJH

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In my humble opinion, the engraving is high class

 

[Xfuzz]

I think if the price was right that .22 would have
come home with me.

 

[herd118]

The engraving style reminds me of Wolf & Klar in Fort Worth - many years ago.

 

[austintexas]

tools

I grew up in the age when a Gun was a tool. I bought Springfield 1903s for $20 cut the barrels to 22 inches cut up the stock Etc. Bought Lugers for $29-$69 and had them caromed , that way they didn't rust in the truck. Drilled holes in everything I wanted to put a Scope on. It really wasn't bubbazing a gun it was just the way things were done back then. I've bought 1930s Fords and built hot rods, I paid $10 to $100 each for them, at that time they weren't worth anything and were all over the place. Some one once said there is a "time and a place for everything".
PS I still have my Dads '03 Springfield he sporterized in 1955. new Fajin stock, peep-sight, shorten barrel and polished and blued.
SWCA 892

 

[shovelhead]

My spouse inherited her dad's guns. WWII bring back P-38, early Remington 1100 in .410, Winchester Model 12, Colt Ace with a 3 digit serial number. He scratched his name in each receiver area with a nail or dremel tool. It will break your heart.

I worked at a gun shop that had a lot of elderly clientele. Many of them used a Dremel or one of the electro etching pencils to engrave a name, a SS or a drivers license number in the guns that they would trade in or sell to it.

Some very nice guns got ruined, tragically one was a Remington 552 150th Anniversary rifle. Previous owner "autographed" the receiver.

 

[RKmesa]

Images for engraved gun.....

PJH

Looks like a fun K-22. I believe that I have seen either that gun or one engraved by the same engraver...

 

[Baltimoreed11754]

After retirement i did a few unbubba the bubba builds for fun. I rebuilt 2 sporterized 1903s. One a cut down barrel 1930 with extra holes in the barrel for williams sights and the other a uncut 1919 with a Pederson hole but with 2 extra holes on the left side of the action. The military stock handguards hide the barrel holes on the one but I haven't done anything to the 1919's holes as they are almost hid by the stock. I wouldn't have bought either if the holes had been on top of the recvr. Both are good shooters.

 

[heckinohio]

Richard.....'...seen this one or..........' Doubt this one, this guy was very secretive. I visited his neighbor several times over my working career (1954 to 1995) and there was never mention made of a guy in this small area who had guns. Was no place there to shoot....he must have kept 'guns' to himself. I suspect this is a 'for-hire' engraving job, good engraver here in Ohio. Wouldnt surprise me that he did the same on more than one pistol/revolver.......I will look for initials.

"Garands at Woolworths....." I remember those days well. I took my Luger to a gun shop on Bel-Air road in NE Baltimore (Overlea) on the trolly...1947. Walked 2 miles on Kenwood and ??? road to get to the trolley stop, carried the gun openly, no pocket in 9 year olds shorts big enough for it. I carried it into the gun shop, laid it up on the counter and asked for a box of 'bullets' for it. The counter man came up with a box, I gave him $1.25, got back on the trolley.

My Dad went to Kenwood High in the edge of Baltimore in the 1930's.....he and several others carried shotguns (??) to school and put them in the basement hallway gun rack. They had to have them to work their traps on the way home, ever tried to take a still-alive muskrat out of a leg hold??

PJH

 

[steelslaver]

All I can say is there will be a lot of whining and hand wringing if there is an estate sale after I pass. Probably 1/2 my guns have been "ruined" by modifications

How about these monstrosities

an 8 3/8" 325-5 made into a 5" pinned and recessed 45 colt

A pair of 629-1s made into 45 colts

an early HP made into a 5 screw pinned and recessed 45 colt

a 10-7 made into a 6" 327 mag

Another 10-7 made into a 357 pinto

Cry me a river

 

[squidsix]

Yeah. I am gonna whistle softly and look at my shoes.
But I do not regret round butting my 29-2, or putting a gold bead front sight on a model 10 no dash, or the MANY modded 3rd gens. They all came out nice, and have a purpose.
I even PC-modded many target grips over the years. Because I like them that way.

 

[steelslaver]

I hope I don't cause to much anquish with this one
A 18-4, with a 4" 22 jet barrel, round butted with a 2nd cylinder in 22 mag

For a final atrocity I will run all of it through my blue tank set up sometime in the future