Personalizing Firearms

[oremike]

Many people including myself prefer stock or non permanent modifications when buying used. Some of these permanent changes that one loves does not help resale.

I aggree, that's why I mostly buy new or box stock and then adjust accordingly.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Not mine but my wife's. She found a stoeger coach gun in 20 ga and it's now at the local shotgun guys shop getting the stock fit to her and a recoil pad installed. When we get it back I'll dis-able the auto safety and slick it up for her.

Good man.

I forgot, I always remove magazine safeties.

 

[Spitpatch]

I like to put my ODL # on each firearm with one of those chintzy vibrating engravers they use at the carnivals.

 

[Howard1955]

Customize away!

Here are a few for inspiration!

 

[Ben B.]

Here's my DeWalt gun

 

[bradsteen]

Just for fun I picked up a Masterpiece Arms MAC clone a few years ago, and got a wild hair to do some mods on it:

1. Ordered a folding stock and chopped it to attach a Tailhook Mod1c brace.
2. Added an AFG.
3. Added a blast can.
4. Chopped one of my mags to ~20rd capacity (the 32 rounders are ridiculously long, and nobody makes a shorter one).
5. Added the most beefy, boxy looking optic I could find, because no amount of lipstick is gonna make this pig look skinny or streamlined.

I'd say that's about as customized as I can get, unless someone knows of a mod to make the trigger on this ghetto blaster suck a little less. A Hi Point trigger almost seems smooth in comparison!

 

[Flopsweat]

Just for fun I picked up a Masterpiece Arms MAC clone a few years ago, and got a wild hair to do some mods on it:

1. Ordered a folding stock and chopped it to attach a Tailhook Mod1c brace.
2. Added an AFG.
3. Added a blast can.
4. Chopped one of my mags to ~20rd capacity (the 32 rounders are ridiculously long, and nobody makes a shorter one).
5. Added the most beefy, boxy looking optic I could find, because no amount of lipstick is gonna make this pig look skinny or streamlined.

I'd say that's about as customized as I can get, unless someone knows of a mod to make the trigger on this ghetto blaster suck a little less. A Hi Point trigger almost seems smooth in comparison!

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Definitely looks like a contender for Pimp Gun of the Week.

 

[bradsteen]

Definitely looks like a contender for Pimp Gun of the Week.

Thanks! Guess I'm gonna have to drop that rap album now. Gotta claim my street cred.

 

[Flopsweat]

Thanks! Guess I'm gonna have to drop that rap album now. Gotta claim my street cred.

You're going to need these.

 

[Koda]

Any other gun guys out there, if so what's your make it yours projects?

About 10 years ago I got bored one weekend and started hand carving a 1/4" slab of oak into a set of 1911 thin grips for my [almost] matching Colts.
What started out like this...


ended up as this...


The two guns purchased a month apart by coincidence matching "enhanced" Colt models. 26yrs of heavy use mostly the 10mm these days hunting, upgraded with some drop in Wilson parts along the way. I took a 300rd defensive handgun class with the commander, the only guy with a 1911 the gun has never jammed. After class an instructor asked me aside what kind of 1911 I had, "just an old Colt 45" I replied.

 

[bradsteen]

You're going to need these.

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Gonna have to call the title track "Fat Stacks n' Fat MACs". Which means the music video has to be a bunch of fat guys shooting MAC clones while driving a beat up 80s Caddy and throwing monopoly money out the window.

 

[sobo]

Thanks! Guess I'm gonna have to drop that rap album now. Gotta claim my street cred.

Drop, you say?

 

[Bill Munny]

I've turned to laser-engraving firearms that I know I'm going to keep forever. It's a very nice way to customize my iron.

 

[RVTECH]

Customize away!

Here are a few for inspiration!

And here is one that became less 'inspirational' as I got older.

I built a CVA kit rifle, a Santa Barbara Mauser 98 in .243 as a teen and shot it lots, very accurate and it came with a pretty nice stock.

Well, for some reason I felt the need to 'personalize' it and I knew a saddle maker/leather worker at the time and saw some of his silver deco inlays - including his 'letters', and well, you see the results.....I wish I could wake up and realize this was a bad dream and the stock was back to normal!

 

[sobo]

And here is one that became less 'inspirational' as I got older.

I built a CVA kit rifle, a Santa Barbara Mauser 98 in .243 as a teen and shot it lots, very accurate and it came with a pretty nice stock.

Well, for some reason I felt the need to 'personalize' it and I knew a saddle maker/leather worker at the time and saw some of his silver deco inlays - including his 'letters', and well, you see the results.....I wish I could wake up and realize this was a bad dream and the stock was back to normal!

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The crazy things we do in our youth...

 

[RVTECH]

The crazy things we do in our youth...

Well, it could be worse...

My dad (God rest his soul) painted his Mossberg mod 152 stock gloss white back in his 'day'!

At about the age of 13 I told him I was going to strip and refinish it as I couldn't bear to look at it!

With the help of a neighbor who was a very good woodworker he helped me and this is how it turned out! It's got a few dings and scratches from over the years but still looks pretty good!

 

[Stomper]

I make my guns mine by buying them.

Whoa, now you're getting just a little TOO personal!

 

[Stomper]

Well, it could be worse...

My dad (God rest his soul) painted his Mossberg mod 152 stock gloss white back in his 'day'!

At about the age of 13 I told him I was going to strip and refinish it as I couldn't bear to look at it!

With the help of a neighbor who was a very good woodworker he helped me and this is how it turned out! It's got a few dings and scratches from over the years but still looks pretty good!

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OMG!! It's got a shoulder thingy that pops…… down?

 

[Caveman Jim]

I like MY creations neked, in the raw, white….

 

[ScottInPDX]

Many people including myself prefer stock or non permanent modifications when buying used. Some of these permanent changes that one loves does not help resale.

My solution to this problem is to not sell any firearms anymore.