Ugliest Revolver

[InkEd]

There are many beautiful revolvers like the SAA, Python, Redhawk, Combat Masterpiece, Model 60, etc. This thread is NOT about those guns. It is about their cross-eyed, toothless, acne scarred and overweight hideous cousins. I want to know what you guys think is the UGLIEST revolver.

Feel free to post pics to support your vote.

 

[SaxonPig]

Tastes vary. You mention the Redhawk as one of the most beautiful. To me all Ruger DA revolvers are ugly as mudhens.

 

[Overkilll0084]

Chiappa Rhino.

 

[TimeIsRunninOut]

+1 on the Rhino

 

[Carl N. Brown]

My write-in is the Thunder Five, the original .45LC/.410 revolver, as seen in "Three Kings".

It was made locally and basicly looked as though they neglected to polish or finish the raw casting or forging of the frame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL_Thunder_5

Come to think of it, RG 10 and Clerke First are looks deficient too, but Thunder 5 was actually taken seriously in some quarters, which makes its ugliness more unforgivable. The Montenegrin school of revolvers are something else too.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

On the Webley Mark IV: was that suposed to be the WWII .38 (agreed) or the Boer War .455 (disagreed)?

 

[Pyro]

Both the Nagant and the Webley have something more than looks, they got history.
It's like saying the 1911 is ugly. From a non-biased perspective I would have to agree. But the history of that handgun makes it one of the most favored out there.

 

[CajunBass]

It ain't even close.

Rhino.

 

[susquehannaslim]

Rhino........a disgrace to all revolvers !

 

[Hondo 60]

While the poll entrants are definitely unusual looking, I don't think I'd go so far as "ugly", so I voted for "other"

 

[al123]

Chiappa Rhino looks like a flare gun that happens to shoot 357s. Function trumps looks.

 

[TraditionalCatholic]

Gotta go with the Chiappa Rhino on this one. Even though the idea is a great one functionally, it's just plain ugly.

 

[rdrancher]

Yep, rhino by a large margin. Even makes the LCR look...not as ugly.

 

[greyling22]

ruger super redhawk in the long barrel variation. It looks like they welded on the extra barrel as an afterthought.

The rhino is merely unconventional.

 

[forindooruseonly]

I'll second the Thunder 5 revolver. What an ugly mess. The Taurus Judge is no queen, but the Thunder 5 makes it look svelte in comparison.

 

[Bernie Lomax]

Dardick.

 

[tkkr]

S&W model 10.

 

[AethelstanAegen]

I rather like the looks of the Nagant and Webley revolvers...I don't find them in the slightest bit ugly. That said, I don't find Glocks ugly either so as always it seems to be a matter of personal preference. I bought my Nagant revolver on a whim and I'm really happy I did...it's also helped suck me into the world of wheel guns from autoloaders. I guess that makes it a "gateway revolver" and thus beginning a new collecting addiction .

 

[Jim NE]

The model 10 doesn't fit in this category at all, IMO. It's plain and basic, not ugly.

I would say the Nagant, but it has a practical charm.

So I'd say the Rhino. What were they thinking??

 

[9mmepiphany]

Ugly in a revolver is very subjective...I like the term less appealing to the eye and even that is a matter of learned aesthetics

Of the ones you've offered, I find the Nagant Revolver the most unsettling due to it's disjointed lines. As mentioned in your OP and already commented on by SaxonPig, I too find the Ruger Redhawk (and the GP-100) to have very unsettling lines that seem uncompleted

 

[PabloJ]

Most handguns are ugly but 'Rhino' is uglier then most. Although it is among less handsome weapons the Webley .38/200 auto-ejector was the best military sidearm of WWII.

 

[Lucky Derby]

RG

 

[MCgunner]

S&W model 10.

Uh? You a commie or somethin'? (J/K Don't get radical and think I'm serious)

I thought about the Smith top breaks, the Rhino is pretty fugly, but voted for the Nagant which is ugly in looks AND function far as I'm concerned. Its trigger is all, but unusable in SA OR DA, and hey, I'm the guy that LIKES my Kel Tec P11's trigger!

But, whatever. But, heck, the M10 defines the DA revolver, does it not? Try as I might, I can find nothing ugly about it. As already said, though, it's in the eye of the beholder.

 

[rio nueces]

I sleep with my Nagant. She's good-lookin'.

 

[MCgunner]

Ew.... Well, if you like the girl that fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.....just sayin'....