How many of your guns do you modify in some way?

Installed Hackathorn sights on my 9mm Shield, don't mess with internals on pistols . Auto bolt lever, over size receiver pins and HD extractor on 10/22

I get a lot of guns that someone else modified - and I get them cheap!

With handguns It’s usially sights; tritium for duty-defense handguns that can take them, orange painted front sights for those that can’t. Sometimes grips that fit me better.

Shotguns usually stay stock, but rifles sometimes get a dot optic (AR) or a scope (bolt) or a peep (lever).

Stay safe!

rpenmanparker said:

What is this resale thing you mentioned?

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From the look of the guns on the used gun racks, at the gun shops I go to, there's plenty of folks that know exactly what I'm talking about!

DM

If you're including things such as "sights" in the "modify" list, does that also include factory optional sights?
What about painting white dots yellow with reflective paint?
Most of my "modifications" are done with optional factory parts, that could have been on the firearm from the factory if you bought a different model/version, or are "authorized" changes.
There's only one that's altered with 3rd party components.

I can't help myself-I must tinker with, and occasionally improve whatever I have that goes bang..

Retired smith here - ALL of mine were tuned for competition. I used to go to USPSA/steel/pin matches with my snub nosed revolvers. It was a hoot.

All of my firearms have been modified in some way. I have changed sights, added grip tape, sling attachment points for rifles, scopes, and have even done trigger jobs on some firearms.

Most of them, but Glocks see minimum mods- usually just night sights, sometimes a grip sleeve.

I have a couple guns that have not been modified. Most have been, some heavily.

It's what I enjoy doing and I like for my firearms to fit me. My physical disposition and my personality.

The usual stuff most have already said like sights, trigger jobs, glass bedding, action jobs, etc. I have two actions that have been blueprinted, one barrel cut with a new target crown. Several I have refinished the stocks on and a couple with Boyd stocks. Glocks with lonewolf barrels, spring jobs, ghost connector, +1 and +2 mag ext and a CZ 75b with custom shop grips and some cool aluminum base pads. Even a cheap Heritage 22lr with a total action/trigger job, engraved cylinder, checkered cocabola grips, and a trigger stop. (It's still ugly as sin)

Just regular run of the mill stuff to feed my addiction, same as most of you kind folks.

Like to shorten and square the stocks down to a 13" LoP, and add a pad if need be. (12.5" on the Mini-14)

GR

Usually about the only thing I change is grips or sights depending. I tend to leave things stock unless it just doesn't work for me. I have a PSA AR-15 I put together from a kit that I changed the trigger on. After PSA came out with their EPT trigger I put it in place of the original. I don't think it really changed the pull weight (I don't own a trigger pull gauge) as I didn't use the lighter hammer spring that came with the EPT kit (I don't want an increased chance of light strikes) however it feels a lot lighter just because it is smoother.

I can’t think of any I haven’t done something to. Even the Garand, which got an adjustable plug. Okay, now that I think harder, I haven’t touched my first ever gun...a Marlin 100 single shot.

Some guns just beg to be modified. Prime example is the Ruger Mark series .22, which needs to have the magazine disconnector removed and other trigger tuning performed so as to fulfill its role as a target gun. The Beretta 92 also needs to have its trigger lightened.

Modifying is a tricky subject. I carry two pistols: a Glock which has only gotten night sights so far. Planning on adding extended mag release and slide stop. I also carry a shield. It’s the mass compliant model so I had to fix the broken trigger with an apex kit. It also has night sights.

I only consider those very minor mods though, especially on the Glock.

Sights, springs, firing pin stops, trigger pins, roll pins, light polishing of ramps, beavertail grip safety, magazine disconnect, grips, thumb safety, etc...
Trigger jobs in the future.
I enjoy the process of upgrading and improving my firearms. I do one thing at a time, research and get help as needed, and do quality work with the proper tools.
It’s a rewarding process.

I try to limit myself to modifications that can be remedied by replacing said modified parts. Sometimes, mistakes are made so I pay the price.
1911's I experiment with abandon. Browning 1911-380's where there is no parts support? (I'm talking about YOU: Browning, Inc. Thank you [NOT]) I'm a little more conservative how I go about a trigger job.
My competition and hunting guns get a look-over by my gunsmith every once in awhile.

I only have 2 guns that haven’t been modified And to be honest, they are both CCW platforms that came highly modified.

I've purchased several ARs and the one thing I always change is very simple --- the horrible actuator! A BCM gunfighter type goes into them, except my D. P. M. S. LR-308 which got a Radion. I also put a quadrail forend on the LR-308, and a guadrail on an AR-15, and those ARs that came with the standard ribbed cylindrical forends got new BCM polymer forends. Also, some stocks got replaced with Mag tech MOE stocks.

Most of my non-ar guns are as obtained, save for some minor repairs.

Sometimes I will carve new stock for a rifle. Sometimes I just buy a barrel and build the rest the gun from scratch.

All of them. Often before I even shoot them. The modifications are usually minimal, but they definately happen and will continue to happen.

With handguns the mods are almost always burr or spring related. I open the guns up and clean the factory crud out of its a relatively new gun...otherwise I open it up and clean the accumulated crud out of. I make sure that any toolmarks that affect anything get polished down to where it’s a minimal issue or no issue at all.

With rifles I usually buy a scope when I buy the gun so I assemble when I get home. Shotguns I pull apart like handguns and I clean up all the crap in the action and on the trigger group.

The bulk of my more recent purchases have been junkers that need brought back to life, so some serious mods happen there.

If you count grips and sights, I only have a couple that haven't been modified.

If Cerakote, tacticrayola (lol), bcg's, triggers (drop-in and tunable), forends, stocks, buffer systems, gas systems, muzzle devices, grips, mounts/optics, stippling, grip kits, safeties, sights, frame reductions/modifications, time-serts/helicoils, sidesaddles, mag disconnect delete, accurizing kits (hammer, sear, trigger, extended bolt release, springs, plunger), etc. counts then yes they are all altered from stock in some form or fashion. Nothing too crazy though...pretty basic.

Just about all of them. Some are fairly minor things like grips or sight inserts. Others get new triggers, firing pin assemblys and barrels.