Author Topic: SNOB APPEAL & BBQ GUNS (Read 1230 times)

williamlayton · « **on:** November 19, 2005, 12:41:43 AM »

This thought came to mind from some post on another thread.
Snob appeal and BBQ guns do not make you a bad person. Most of use like these things. Most of us do SOMETHING to sparkle up a weapon, usually the handles. Now plastic guns are a hard piece to deal with, the melting temperature of plastic being such that it is.
Other things are done by a lot of folks by a lot of Smiths for such weapons. R. Dane Burnes, Yost and Bonitz, lots of others.
There are BBQ Guns, Court Guns and they come in different flavors and dresses. I am fond of the old styles but some of the new boys have some nice examples of their interpretation of this concept.
Where did it all begin. Well they have been around for at least as long as swords but the concept of the BBQ guns came from TEXAS, by, GOD and I have more than enough proof to satisfy my state of mind.
I have an STI and soon to get another in a another flavor with hard chrome. I will someday have a Colt in .38 super, slicked up to suit my taste, also hard chromed.
Tell me about some of yours, pictures are good.
Blessings

BlkHawk73 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 19, 2005, 01:01:57 AM »

None here, I buy and keep my guns as useable tools not merely as a flashy attention getter. No need or desire to buy a gun let alone carry gun just for the attention it gathers or to feed my ego.

Savage · « **Reply #2 on:** November 19, 2005, 01:24:01 AM »

Well William, you caught up with me! How did you know? My court gun is a Kimber Pro Carry SS with Ajax Black Zebra pearlite grips. If I have a BBQ gun, guess its the Officer's Mdl SS with the Chip McCormic ultra thin rosewood carry grips. Both look good in the black Safariland basketweave. I have to confess to carrying any one of three Glocks for serious discourse tho. Not that the court or BBQ model wouldn't handle it. Oh yeah, what kind of gun is the kel tec .380 that is always in my pocket?
Whoa-----almost forgot the 4"mdl 29 I sometimes carry in a duty rig for
------= and grins.
Savage

williamlayton · « **Reply #3 on:** November 19, 2005, 02:03:21 AM »

Blackhawk-
Let us assume, for this conversation, that all weapons are 1) very functional. The rest is eye candy, first for the pleasure of the owner and then for the pleasure of company.
Blessings

BlkHawk73 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 19, 2005, 06:38:54 AM »

I see and understand the other side of this but I'm still a more practical and less spectacle person. I buy items, in this case firearms, that appeal to me regardless of what attention they'll gather from anyone else. I keep them low profile at the range. I just never see myself ever, having any firearm simply as a showpiece for others to enjoy. High polish - pass. fancy engraving - pas. I'm just a plain and simple admirer. To each thier own though. :-)
It's not just with guns, I HATE flash and shiney on vehicles too.

shoot safe! :grin:

oh, how 'bout some pics of these.

williamlayton · « **Reply #5 on:** November 19, 2005, 08:45:12 AM »

Doggies, I am gonna have to learn how to post pictures now. :cry:
Well mine are not purty like some I have seen, I was just begging to see some of them what tha folks have. Doan have to be all gussied up, just to see how tha local boys dress em.
That kel-tech is like my PPK, it is just there and, well, handy.
I like to look at the ones that some of the smiths do. They post a lot of them over at pistolsmith.
Dane and yost and those boys got a way with them. But I am too old to do the waiting that it takes. sometimes more than two years.
But I love looking at em.
The 9x23 I am getting from Dawson is a Trojan, all hard chromed with some black paper handles. I am thinking I might replace the safety with a blued safety.
Blessings

bigger e · « **Reply #6 on:** November 19, 2005, 08:47:07 AM »

Quote from: BlkHawk73

I see and understand the other side of this but I'm still a more practical and less spectacle person. I buy items, in this case firearms, that appeal to me regardless of what attention they'll gather from anyone else. I keep them low profile at the range. I just never see myself ever, having any firearm simply as a showpiece for others to enjoy. High polish - pass. fancy engraving - pas. I'm just a plain and simple admirer. To each thier own though. :-)
It's not just with guns, I HATE flash and shiney on vehicles too.

shoot safe! :grin:

oh, how 'bout some pics of these.

Its called being Conservative, nothing wrong with that. :wink:

Savage · « **Reply #7 on:** November 19, 2005, 01:20:24 PM »

William,
Gotta work a couple more days this week, maybe after that I can learn how to post pictures, I'll give it a try.
Savage

TScottO · « **Reply #8 on:** November 19, 2005, 04:21:19 PM »

Nothing here is engraved but these are my better handguns. All of them are used when time permits.

Take Care,
Scott

a45gunslinger · « **Reply #9 on:** November 19, 2005, 04:31:46 PM »

williamlayton · « **Reply #10 on:** November 19, 2005, 09:08:29 PM »

I like those. See now, those are pretty.
Blessings

jro45 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 20, 2005, 02:39:03 AM »

I don't change the outside of my guns other than grips for my shooting pleasure. Now as far as the insides go I might work on the trigger or use a different spring setup. If I think the trigger is to course I'll work on the sear and smooth it out. I get my gun the way I like it. Not to much on the outside.

gino · « **Reply #12 on:** November 20, 2005, 03:57:48 AM »

Here in the People's Republik of Illinois if you showed up at a BBQ with a gun (engraved or not) on your hip you'd be surounded by a SWAT team in about 30 seconds.
gino

papajohn428 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 20, 2005, 07:51:02 AM »

Precisely the reason I moved back to Missouri........and I'm still shocked they passed a good CCW law here.

As for my guns, they're all purty, but none are fancy. Beauty is as beauty does. And when I wear a gun to a BBQ, it's concealed! Don't want to upset the sheeple, the bleating gives me a headache.

Papajohn