Category Archives: Guns

1911_purview Way before he was racing cars and supervising a semi custom 1911 mill, Lester (the gun molester) was one of the baddest pistolsmiths in America. This 1985 Colt 80 series comp gun is testament to that. He called it the “Baer Custom Compensator II System” and it was engineered to mitigate muzzle flip andContinue reading “Les Baer Custom Comped 1911”

Classic deep-carry conversion by Behlert’s shop, this mini Hi Power is just part of the full repertoire of Austin, who built mini 1911’s and Smith 39’s.

Classic 44 Special conversion by one of the very best in the business, Bowen Classic Arms.

The Goncz pistol is one of those oddballs that is all but forgotten.

The firearm pictures was dug up in Vietnam recently at the famous scene of one of France’s biggest  disasters.  A local Vietnamese man found it at Dien Bien Phu.  Anyone  who is familiar with a variety of older foreign pistols will see what appears to be examples from several all  jungle workshoped together.  Better examplesContinue reading “Mystery CHICOM Pistol Dug Up In Vietnam”

This box and paperwork got posted on facebook the other day. Too bad he didn’t get the gun with it. I have wanted one of those for a long time. Unfortunately I have never seen on with my own eyes in person. The gun itself came out to offer a heavier load than the average .38Special.Continue reading “S&W .38-44 Heavy Duty”

The MK12 Special Purpose Rifle has been around 20 plus years now give or take and has achieved an excellent reputation for accuracy and effectiveness. I won’t go over it’s history and development here except to say it was developed as a light weight sniper rifle for special operations forces. It’s use in the GWOTContinue reading “Field Accuracy Of The MK12 (Part 1)”