Ever see modification to a gun that was just a bad idea?

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First thing comes to mind is how -we-, including myself, back in the late 70's used to drill out the nipple on
old muzzle loaders to get better fire to the powder. It seemed to work more often that way but when one would
fire the rifle, the hammer would be cocked by the pressure escaping thru the newfound exit. The smarter of us changed
back to the original nipples asap, but still felt that -smarter- would have been better applied to have never considered
this as an option.
Problem solved by shooting a flintlock. Then it’s only the guy next to you who suffers.
 
Back in the day, say 1960's and '70's there was advice offered in the Gun Digest that is a little...hmmm...head scratching. One was to make your Colt Single Action revolvers more accurate, to bend the barrel in a press. Whole article on it. Different Digest, another guy shows how to bend the barrels of shotguns to make them shoot straighter. I kid you not! The days before instant info from the internet.
 
Back in the day, say 1960's and '70's there was advice offered in the Gun Digest that is a little...hmmm...head scratching. One was to make your Colt Single Action revolvers more accurate, to bend the barrel in a press. Whole article on it. Different Digest, another guy shows how to bend the barrels of shotguns to make them shoot straighter. I kid you not! The days before instant info from the internet.
Bubba Jr’s favorite Grand Bubba musta wrote that one... I wonder how many otherwise good shotgun barrels ended up with creases from the edge of the vise jaws after that one came out? o_O
Stay safe.
 
Back in the day, say 1960's and '70's there was advice offered in the Gun Digest that is a little...hmmm...head scratching. One was to make your Colt Single Action revolvers more accurate, to bend the barrel in a press. Whole article on it. Different Digest, another guy shows how to bend the barrels of shotguns to make them shoot straighter. I kid you not! The days before instant info from the internet.

Gunsmiths have been doing such stuff for years. Hell, factories do it too. All it takes in the proper equipment.
 
My grandfather was in WW2 in Germany and i believe North Africa earlier. From I could remember he carried a SMITH .38 wheel gun everywhere and Everyday and I'm not sure which gund were being bent but definitely not this one i dont believe. When he passed away he left all his WW2 medals like purple heart etc. and his 1958-1962 Smith model .37 Chief Special aluminum air weight
 
Personally, Quad-rail forends on AR 15 rifles.
The idea to allow for adding a light securely to the gun is great, but those huge sharp-edged abominations were like wrapping the forend in a chainsaw blade. Even with covers they sucked. The new styles are a thousand times better.

Oh, while I’m on the chainsaw subject; Mossberg’s chainsaw shotgun. One of the dumbest factory-mods ever.

Stay safe.
My brother is one person who loves the quad rail. He has nothing on it.
I personally hate it and everything besides a small light and a sighting system.
 
This guy shows with a gun he had customized. He started with a perfectly good five screw 38 Special S&/W Combat Masterpoece. He had filed on the hammer and frame. He had the hammer and trigger gold plated. He had added part of a Pachmayr pot metal vent rib sold at that time. Guy came in to show us this monstrosity-. Another self-styled gunsmith came in telling how he would put valve grinding compound in a Python to further smooth up the action. The Python was slight off-topic.
Blasphemy!
 
Back in the day, say 1960's and '70's there was advice offered in the Gun Digest that is a little...hmmm...head scratching. One was to make your Colt Single Action revolvers more accurate, to bend the barrel in a press. Whole article on it. Different Digest, another guy shows how to bend the barrels of shotguns to make them shoot straighter. I kid you not! The days before instant info from the internet.
The original way of getting people to buy new guns.
 
Many, many things have been done to Glocks that qualify. Night sights are the only thing you need to add to a Glock.
There's one more thing that I think needs to be added to the Glock, Just finished doing this thing to two of my Glock's. Replace the factory slide lock-the one that's used to remove the slide. It was hard for me to reach to push the factory latch down. No problem with the replacement. Two of my guns have the factory night sights.
 
Anything a seller wants me to pay for for starters. No, I’m not paying for your hot-needle stipple job.


In high school, my buddy made his Marlin Goose gun fire when he closed the bolt.
 
Anything a seller wants me to pay for for starters. No, I’m not paying for your hot-needle stipple job.


In high school, my buddy made his Marlin Goose gun fire when he closed the bolt.
That describes ceracote jobs to me. Pay $100 to turn a $500 gun into a $300 gun that you ask $600 for.

The $1600 Glocks on Armslist just make me laugh. The only factory part is the frame, and they’ve mangled it until it’s barely functional. It’s all I can do not to contact the sellers and ask if they are high on crack.
 
Trigger Point Technology sells a button for your trigger, so that by pressing on the trigger, you can activate a light or laser.
What could possibly go wrong? o_O

It's hard for me to imagine that anyone thought that was a good idea, let alone actually took it to market.
 
There's one more thing that I think needs to be added to the Glock, Just finished doing this thing to two of my Glock's. Replace the factory slide lock-the one that's used to remove the slide. It was hard for me to reach to push the factory latch down. No problem with the replacement. Two of my guns have the factory night sights.
Terry, I'd add a third thing. A slightly wider slide release. Too many Glocks I've had come through the store requre me to slightly roll the pistol to get good pressure on the OEM slide release. I have an issue with any pistol that I can't drop it into battery from a shooting grip. I know, the solution is to count your shot and pop a fresh mag in with one still in the chamber, but during a serious incident, that's not always possible.
 
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