Neanderpundit

Chris writes here about Bubba-ed guns, and I have to wholeheartedly agree. I hate finding a bubbaed gun.

The 45 I just blued was one such gun, and since it was bubbaed to begin with, I really didn’t care what else happened to it.

Now, I have “normal” sized hands. For a guy my size, I should have huge, honking, sausage finger hands. But I don’t. So shooting my 45 is an adventure- the frame bites my trigger finger, the heel of my hand, and the eavertail grip safety was just… annoying. So I bobbed the gun aft, cut a deeper fingernotch in the frame, and made some other changes to make it more comfortable for me to shoot. So the value of the gun is almost nonexistent- except to me, and I am the one who has to shoot it. So yes, My name is Og, and I bubba guns.

This picture- with my crappy digital camera- doesn’t do this gun justice. The blue is almost black, and it was easy as can be. Good lord, why didn’t I do this sooner? Now all I need is a rear sight.

Good friend of mine told me I was gonna end up looking like “a nawleans pimp” with the ivory grips.

Hm. Maybe a new side job.

At this moment, ten feet from here, I am attempting to do my first hot bluing in the span of 24 years.

I did my 45 years ago, under the tutelage of a local gunsmith. he’s long dead, and I have been using instructions found at Blindhogg to attempt to roll my own, so to speak. Wish me luck. Pictures later, if I don’t blow up.