Latest Battery Oaks Hacksaw Project

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I hope it is at least very functional.
 
ā€œAssault riflesā€

Pffftt
 
Itā€™s yours, do what you want. What does that mod improve?
 
Friday said:
Don't get uptight y'all.
They've hacked-up far more rare and valuable guns than that one. šŸ˜
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Now that we got one of them new fangle lectric cutting machines set up there is no telling what the Custom Shop at The Oaks will turn out next. See @BatteryOaksBilly to place your custom order in time for Christmas! Target model in the works F8351BC9-48B2-41FF-AE2B-5CA45CC9D28E.jpeg
 
Etruett said:
What kind of work?
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If you make the frame flat in front of the trigger you wonā€™t hit that nubbin with your trigger finger on the draw. Basically remove the rest of the trigger guard in front of the trigger.
 
Anyone know if this was common in WWII? I have a bring back P38 given to me by a family friend. Itā€™s rough and went through a house fire in the 80ā€™s. The trigger guard was modified and when I first got it I thought it had been damaged. I later concluded someone had modified it at some point. No one in the family new anything about it other than an uncle brought it back and he was long passed.
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Carolinatlc said:
Anyone know if this was common in WWII? I have a bring back P38 given to me by a family friend. Itā€™s rough and went through a house fire in the 80ā€™s. The trigger guard was modified and when I first got it I thought it had been damaged. I later concluded someone had modified it at some point. No one in the family new anything about it other than an uncle brought it back and he was long passed.
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Google Fritz special. It was a thing back in the 50s. Your bring back seems to have experienced it.
 
cold1 said:
It was a thing back in the 50s.
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It was a thing back in the 20s......All our bring backs are made to order right here....Truthfully we have done so many I couldn't hazard a guess.

Fitz's book "Shooting" from 1920 is a must for Pistoleros. There is a full page size picture of Fitz showing The perfect Weaver Stance....Before Jack Weaver was Born. I have a picture of a Colt ad from the 1880s showing a Speed Loader for a revolver....Nutton NEW under the sun ....just better marketing.
 
Carolinatlc said:
Anyone know if this was common in WWII? I have a bring back P38 given to me by a family friend. Itā€™s rough and went through a house fire in the 80ā€™s. The trigger guard was modified and when I first got it I thought it had been damaged. I later concluded someone had modified it at some point. No one in the family new anything about it other than an uncle brought it back and he was long passed.
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I'd guess that was to get a gloved finger on the trigger.
 
Carolinatlc said:
Anyone know if this was common in WWII? I have a bring back P38 given to me by a family friend. Itā€™s rough and went through a house fire in the 80ā€™s. The trigger guard was modified and when I first got it I thought it had been damaged. I later concluded someone had modified it at some point. No one in the family new anything about it other than an uncle brought it back and he was long passed.
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It just needs a little fine tuning
 
JimB said:
If you make the frame flat in front of the trigger you wonā€™t hit that nubbin with your trigger finger on the draw. Basically remove the rest of the trigger guard in front of the trigger.
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Thatā€™s a 5 screw gun. Canā€™t remove as much metal as you can on a 3 or 4 screw gun
 
MacEntyre said:
It ain't a Fitz Special unless it's a Colt's.
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A purist with a hacksaw?! :D:D Best of both worlds!

I love threads like this (for a few hundred posts, anyways). 1/3 "hey, lookie here!"; 1/3 "you did what to that [sacred cow]?!"; and 1/3 "I learned something here today."

It reminds me of how I was about many things when I was younger and newer to the world: snobbish about things I knew only a little about. I would see something I thought iconic of the type (be it guns, tools, food, booze, methods, coffee, period- or style-representative objects, etc.) and think "Ah, perfection! Who could want that different than it is?"

Over time I came to the conclusion that F'n around with stuff is an integral part of the human spirit. (To be fair, so is the desire for stability. It's an interesting tension.) Not all the results are pretty, nor are they all successful. But I have come to appreciate the sincere attempts to alter and improve that which we are dealt, especially when "historical" examples are incorporated into the process - going back to a turn off and trying a what-if path.

Personally, I'd be afraid of shootin' meself in the cannonballs with a Fitz Special. But I acknowledge this is a measure of my skills with a revolver rather than any inherent flaw in the object. As far as a different skillset is concerned, I have never used those stupid flapping table-saw blade guards, and I can still count to ten without unzipping or untying anything.
 
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