Let's see the ugly ones!

[pred]

An old CZ 380, I think it is a model 24,
It was pretty well greased or oiled inside, It actually shoots pretty well.
If you see it in person you can see a pattern in the rust looking like burap or some kind of cloth.

Peter

 

[Dave T]

This one is my worst, a 1922 shipped 2nd Model HE with a cut down barrel.

Much to my surprise it always photographs better than it actually looks. There's uncounted coats of cold blue on it, along with the fake grips and a painted front sight. It shoots better than I think it should so I'm reasonably pleased with it.

Dave

 

[Sgt 127]

This one has all of its sharp corners knocked off:

 

[Nframe_is_no1]

Alright, you guys asked for it, so here ya go, my ugliest is this poor pre-model 10 .38 M&P that I have named the "ugly duckling". I featured this gun in a thread on the pre-1960 section of the forum when I got it a few weeks ago. I bought it for $80 because it looks like it was drug through salt water. However, the bore and chambers are perfect, so it shoots great! The action is butter smooth, and it has the pre-war long action and single-line marking on the frame. Also, quite oddly, the grips are almost perfect. Its serial number is S849xxx, dating it to 1945 according to the SCSW. I only wish this old gun could talk so it could tell me what happened to it!

Here is its first test target, fired from 25 yards with UMC 158 gr LRN (marked w/ red) and a 158 gr cast LSWC standard pressure handload of mine:

 

[30-30remchester]

Them aint ugly guns, them be used guns with a history. Unlike most other guns these have been there done that and got the scars to prove it. Carry on the fine tradition.

 

[OldW]

My thoughts exactly. I haven't seen an ugly one in the bunch yet. They are all beautiful in their own way.

 

[stantheman86]

One gun I should have bought was a Russian Nagant revolver with shrapnel damage.......

I won't even drag out my ugly rifles.......that would be a page full of pics

 

[redlevel]

Here it is, one more time: 30+ years in my hip pocket . . . .

A Model 19-3 that worked as a Georgia Lawman's gun for 25 years. Still very tight, an excellent shooter:

I picked up this 4-digit K22 a year or two back. It has a bad case of measles, but it is one fine shooter:

 

[stantheman86]

I like it, those are some real "working guns"

One of my "needs" is an Enfield revolver that looks like it spent 50 years being carried around in the desert.....

 

[jglsprings]

I'll play...

In my mind it lived in Louisiana, maybe a swamp or somewhere gnarly, nasty and dangerous. Or not.

 

[Sebago Son]

So you want UGLY, huh?

Had to dig pretty deep for this one... was in the bottom of a footlocker I haven't opened in 10 years...

Was found in a mountain cave near Nang Phaya, 150 miles west of Vientiane, Thailand.

Like that hammer nose rivet?

Even though it has all matching numbers ( ) I've always thought of it as the product of an indigenous workshop rather than genuine made in Springfield...

...perhaps, given the remarkable quality of the simulation, right down to the S&W markings including patent dates on the top of the barrel, from Durra which was 2,000 miles away...

 

[stantheman86]

That's pretty neat, is that a handmade copy of an M&P, or S&W parts cobbled together with handmade parts?

I wouldn't test the metallurgy on that thing........kind of like the Khyber Pass Webley copies.......

 

[Sebago Son]

Rough Cut M&P...

Stan,

My guess is that this was made with some sort of crude machinery. I should have peeled the sideplate where the differences become more evident...

Given the blatant use of the S&W Logo, my thinking was Khyber (Durra), but noting that it was found in a cave in Thailand it's anybodies guess... even the Spanish Ebar copied guns are nice by comparison.

Drew

 

[deanodog]

M10=5

 

[625smith]

Ugly????

How about just sad.................

 

[cmj8591]

You guys really need to find some new gun shops to buy from!!!

 

[stantheman86]

A S&W copy made in a cave in Thailand That looks like the gun they used to play Russian Roulette in "Deer Hunter"

I used to own some of the rough Belgian and Spanish copies of the M&P, and I was even afraid to fire those........that copy is a neat piece though, I would probably mount it on the wall or make a display out of it with some other Middle Eastern or Thai items. It looks like someone used that gun for something, I don't think we'll ever know.

 

[MajorD]

I don't have many pics but some of the guns we came across during my duty in Iraq and later Afghanistan would make these look like safe queens!