Category Archives: Guns

From pistol_purview 1976 Colt 70 series 1911 in .45 ACP by Captain George Worthy out of Salinas CA. George was a special forces Green Beret in Vietnam and his handle was “George of the Jungle, which we see inscribed on the gas tank of his motorcycle. Following his military service he was a gunsmith inContinue reading “George Worthy Custom Colt”

Here is a pretty neat picture. 2 members of the 101st Airborne with captured PAVN weapons, the one on left is the Type56 but the one on right is the Chinese Type 53, a copy of the Russian m44 carbine, That one has a rifle grenade on the muzzle ready to fire. You don’t seeContinue reading “Type 53 & Rifle Grenade”

From pistol_purview Last year my friend @texaspatriotarms posted a Colt built by Mike Padgett (MP Customs out of Linton Indiana) and I swore right then and there I was going to buy it. Well, he wouldn’t sell it. This was curious to me. After all, he’s a high end 1911 dealer—selling 1911s is his business.Continue reading “Custom Colt From Pistol_Purview”

Justin walks us through the new blued python.

You know all those really nice used and slightly custom pistols you see from Karl? He now has a section on his website where you can go to buy them if one tickles your fancy. A New section on our website http://www.kgbcustom.com for offering some fine customs that come in second hand, as always forContinue reading “KGB Offering 2nd Hand Custom Pistols”

From Pistol_purview Colt bullseye 1911 by Ted Hatate out of Hollywood CA. This absolutely beautiful gun is wrapped in (out of this world) orthopedic target grips, hand crafted by Lew Sanderson. I don’t know much about old Ted, but I’m probably gonna wear this hat all summer on the golf course. My @lukevolkmann hat isContinue reading “Ted Hatate Bullseye Colt”

Our pal has done the work I’m too busy ( lazy?) to do for SHOT. He has been compiling some of the more interesting ( debatable) products. You can take a look below. It’s that time of year again, SHOT Show. As in years previous, we will be trolling through the SHOT coverage and curatingContinue reading “Sunshine Shooter’s SHOT SHOW Roundup”

A very old shot gun found inside a tree by a man who milled it at Cape York. Thought to have been once left in the fork and the tree has grown around it.