Bad ideas in home gunsmithing

[chickenman]

Anyone else out here have a badd tendency to perform the lusive Bubba to their gun?
Do you just wake up in the morning and decide you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna ruin a perfectly good gun?
Or do you decide to finish off a 5th of whiskey grab whatever available and see if you can make it shoot bullets?

I think it's time that we have a thread of shame in show what horrible things we have done to firearms

I will start off by showing off a 45acp mauser I built, and a Mak drum that was really dumb

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[cigars]

I have a 10/22 that around 30 years ago I used Plastikote automotive touch up paint to paint the barrel. I wasn't drunk or anything, just trying something different. I still have it and it's actually held up pretty well all this time. Take that Cerakote!

 

[ilikegunspdx]

I don't mind experimenting on a gun with little monetary value. Self protection guns or guns of any value at all though I don't do it. I have a heritage rough rider revolver Fe I have refinished multiple times: hammer finish, distressed, I'm thinking of jeweling the whole blasted thing next just for fun.

 

[thorborg]

Horrible is in the eye of the beholder as guns are generally not something many want to see fiddled with by just anyone, unlike cars. I personally cannot think of anything I made worse or even devalued other than a 10-22 stock I blinged up on request for another, then he wasn't able to keep it. Most were preferring the new plastic stocks anyway so no harm no foul there.
On the other side of the coin; Among many other things over the last six decades, I've reconstituted two rusted shotguns now, (12ga & 410)that still work great, one had no stock.
After finding no sample or drawing, and after several years, designed, and finally produced a working multiple use main spring for a 25 acp arista auto pocket pistol that I acquired without a spring to copy.
Made new firing pins from drill bits for two simple old 22 single shot rifles.
Got an old trench gun back to working condition for my daughter.
Straightened a bent frame, and made a new spring, then reblued an old Stevens 22 single shot pistol.
Filed from a saw blade an extractor for another 22 single shot rifle that had an unavailable broken one.
And even though it took two different ejectors, and a ton of fitting filing and refitting, I finally got a 1911 that was severally denting the brass on ejecting to not dent the can and even got it to throw it where I wanted.
But all in all, I don't recall ever screwing up a gun.
My opine is if you enjoy such things, follow @ilikegunspdx advice; find stuff of "little monetary value" do your best and you will learn and better yourself and abilities exponentially over time. (and maybe even surprise yourself)

 

[Member 34319]

I've gotten a bit better with a dremel since!!!

 

[chickenman]

I've gotten a bit better with a dremel since!!!

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oh the mosin how we treated you.

 

[Pepe-lepew]

Don't think I really have like others have. I have made some screw ups doing modifications but always have fixed them.

Besides bubba mods there is professional bubba mods like Cerakote and grip stippling. Makes me cringe when I see nice firearms hacked up or painted.

 

[Member 53328]

If only I had photos of the first few Glocks I attempted to stipple…. Disaster.

 

[Pandaz3]

My attempts were all very successful, thank you. No need for pictures!

 

[Knobgoblin]

When I drank, I bubba'd some.

Kitchen table, butter knife for a screwdriver, drill motor with an aluminum cleaning rod chucked up, channel locks , small pry bar.
Yep

That was back in the flip phone era tho. No pics I can remember.

 

[Pandaz3]

When I drank, I bubba'd some.

Kitchen table, butter knife for a screwdriver, drill motor with an aluminum cleaning rod chucked up, channel locks , small pry bar.
Yep

You did not need a pry bar; you had a perfectly good butter knife!

 

[Knobgoblin]

The chisel end of a crow bar fits the standard mossberg stock screw perfect. Edit. It was an old tire iron.
Memories

How do I know that?

 

[chickenman]

The chisel end of a crow bar fits the standard mossberg stock screw perfect. Edit. It was an old tire iron.
Memories

How do I know that?

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I did this once to get a Enfield stock off

 

[Knobgoblin]

I feel like I've been a part of more car bubbary than gun butchery.

Especially when there's 3 dudes and a 20 ton press trying to " get this finished " .
The result is usually welding something that used to have multiple parts.

 

[chickenman]

I think this is the best example of my drunk Craftmade garbage box.

Some a little fuzzy on how I did it or why but we were knocking back a few brews and one of my Friends said intan possible to build a gun without a proper machine shop, Or something like that.

This was made literally digging for my junk bin. Some scrap steel light pulled off a broken Honda, car battery with A microwave inverter for a welder. and hacksaw, power drill used as a dremel

 

[Knobgoblin]

I think this is the best example of my drunk Craftmade garbage box.

Some a little fuzzy on how I did it or why but we were knocking back a few brews and one of my Friends said intan possible to build a gun without a proper machine shop, Or something like that.

This was made literally digging for my junk bin. Some scrap steel light pulled off a broken Honda, car battery with A microwave inverter for a welder. and hacksaw, power drill used as a dremel

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You should move to Kandahar

 

[chickenman]

You should move to Kandahar

been there once, once was enough.

but i did get ideas from some of the things I found

 

[Ben B.]

I think this is the best example of my drunk Craftmade garbage box.

Some a little fuzzy on how I did it or why but we were knocking back a few brews and one of my Friends said intan possible to build a gun without a proper machine shop, Or something like that.

This was made literally digging for my junk bin. Some scrap steel light pulled off a broken Honda, car battery with A microwave inverter for a welder. and hacksaw, power drill used as a dremel

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Cool. Did it work?

 

[LDmax]

Check my classifieds

 

[chickenman]

Cool. Did it work?

kinda..........
once in awhile I needed to hit it on a rock.
lasted about 450 rounds until I broke to the point of no shoot shoot.
so a hi point