Your 'Cheesiest' Gun Modification

[Mistered]

Ok - I was 17 years old, and built this rifle from a kit (A CVA Santa Barbara 98 Mauser based action .243 Winchester) and had to 'personalize' it by inletting my initials with silver letters in the stock.
OK - enough said - lets see yours!

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[RanchRoper]

Don't have one yet but yours is a doozy...

[Mags]

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Cheesy but practical. Putting rubber foot on the magazine eject button of my Long Ranger, making it easier to eject the magazine.


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[Mistered]

It ain't cheesy if its removable and/or helps in some way!
But I will ask - why not fab a longer eject button?
My Ruger PC Carbine has the same problem - and I plan to machine one that is longer and easier to press!

[Mags]

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Could, but just way too easy/cheesy to use a stick-on. I think just the thought of using a stick-on foot is what makes it cheesy.

It ain't cheesy if its removable and/or helps in some way!
But I will ask - why not fab a longer eject button?
My Ruger PC Carbine has the same problem - and I plan to machine one that is longer and easier to press!

[BrokenolMarine]

Shooting competition, I loved the shape and fit of the stock wooden grips on my ppc gun, but they tended to move in my hands when they would sweat in the humid VA summer weather. The wife had rolls and rolls of "vet wrap" they used on the horses both at the house and at the barn(s) she managed at the time, and where she trained horses for others. There were plenty of roll ends around. The vet wrap only stuck to itself, but was tacky. Sticky enough to assure a solid connection.

I would use those short rolls with less than a foot or so, to wrap the grips on my competition guns. Cheesy? Most of the horses belonged to women or young girls, so the vet wrap was usually bright pink, lime green, electric purple, or yellow with teddy bears. I was shooting Police Pistol Matches. Yeah, they noticed.

I just laughed, and told them it was, "free." Eventually the wife ordered me a half dozen rolls of dark red and dark green. I am a Marine.
Solved the grip issue. Peeled off easily after every match, and I reapplied before the next.

[ESquared]

Thankfully, I've been able to avoid cheesy in my years of firearms involvement. Not that I don't modify/upgrade/tweak, but those changes tend to run to the very traditional, whether mechanical or cosmetic.

[markiver54]

Barrel separation from chamber on my Sheridan Pump. Zip tie to the rescue.
Still very accurate believe it or not. Eventually will fix it using a method suggested by NCG.
For now though, I'll leave well enough alone.

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Now I think this qualifies as cheezy!

[Mistered]

Now I think this qualifies as cheezy!

Naw - its a temporary repair!

I guess I think of 'cheesy' as something gaudy and permanent, or leaving a 'scar' if removed - kind of like my silver initials!

OR the Mod 25 Smith I once saw in a pawn shop - someone had cut the barrel to 3" , crudely welded the front sight back on and parkerized it.
This was not only 'cheesy' but sacrilege!

[clovishound]

My Dad decided many years ago he wanted a cheek rest on his Remington .22 rifle. He built one up using Bondo and painted the whole stock with brown spray paint. My brother has it now, and I offered to refinish or replace the stock, he said he kinda likes it.

I guess he takes after the old man.

[Mistered]

Oh man - this reminds me of a 'dad' story as well.
The gun I started shooting as a kid was my dads model 152 Mossberg .22 semi auto he bought when he was young. Well for some reason he felt the need to strip the finish from the stock And PAINT IT WHITE! Yep - I mean Sherman-Williams house paint white!
Well I couldn't live with this and he admitted he had no idea why he did it at the time so with the help of a neighbor who did a lot of woodworking I dove into refinishing it.
It's been a long time but I remember it being quite a project as the paint was deep into the wood and stripping it was a slow process I had to be careful with it but eventually we got it all removed and a careful sanding revealed a beautiful walnut stock! I used Varathane to seal it and a hand rubbing with rottenstone gave it a deep, satin appearance that lasts today.
This was the 'impetus' of many gunstocks I would eventually restore over the years and the next will be my BBB stock.
Imagine this with a stark white stock!

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