AeroDillo's Online Traveling Gun Show (now with M&P 40)

[AeroDillo]

Well, my brain didn't explode while considering a modern Lovecraftesque western but I think I did strain a lobe.

You have a backup, right?

[n11pilot]

Well, my brain didn't explode while considering a modern Lovecraftesque western but I think I did strain a lobe.

You have a backup, right?

I'm not sure what kind of shape the backup is in. I believe it was severely damaged in activities associated with older whiskey and younger women.

[AeroDillo]

...at least it wasn't wasted.

[AeroDillo]

Another of those animals that's been on the list for a while.



I was having a slow day this week. As I was also reading Donald Burgett's memoirs as a paratrooper in WWII, it occurred to me that I hadn't yet done much with the M1.

...we got that fixed.

Meantime, this is hopefully the last of the format changes for a while. I've trying to find a way to be able to put these out on the internet without a watermark. The result is the ghostly Flying Piss Pot of Doom lurking behind the illustration there, which hopefully precludes most forms of thievery. There's also a smaller version in silver at bottom right, just above the blog (which is in dire need of updates).

Updated 6/4/12:

[n11pilot]

Nice depiction of a great weapon. However my right thumb twitches every time I see one. You got to be quick when you load the en-bloc clip into the magazine, the bolt shows no restraint whatsoever.

[AeroDillo]

The weapon of choice of a certain female character in a certain zombie project (not sure if we've had any weaponries from that project show up in this thread yet, but hey...no time like the present). I think I've finally gotten the layout figured, too. Time will tell, I guess.

[n11pilot]

The weapon of choice of a certain female character in a certain zombie project (not sure if we've had any weaponries from that project show up in this thread yet, but hey...no time like the present). I think I've finally gotten the layout figured, too. Time will tell, I guess.

Great representation of the P99. I used to have one of these back in the early 00s. I think the first magazines held 16 rounds but it was dropped to 15 when some folks had a problem chambering that first round out of the mag. I never did figure out what the little A shaped piece of plastic in the trigger guard was meant to do.

[AeroDillo]

Great representation of the P99. I used to have one of these back in the early 00s. I think the first magazines held 16 rounds but it was dropped to 15 when some folks had a problem chambering that first round out of the mag. I never did figure out what the little A shaped piece of plastic in the trigger guard was meant to do.

For what it's worth, I never understood why Thompsons had sights.

[AeroDillo]

Two new items up this week, both from the neverending zombie project of doom.

For one reason or another, I've never gotten around to doing a pistol-gripped shotgun (I don't think). Couple of slow days this week fixed that. I'm not a great fan of PGO shotguns, much preferring the birdshead on a whippet gun, but I do have to admit they're a striking and distinctive little monster. This one belongs to a Harley-riding preacher name of Brother Marv.




And in the not-terribly-original category, another Model 97 Winchester, this one from the collection of lovely Miss Evelyn Wright (former the Blonde Stranger). After considerable hemming and hawing I looked at my original drawings of the '97 and found them somewhat lacking. Conveniently the major errors were on the forward half and therefore easy to correct, and I think the overall look is now more correct to the spirit of the thing (if not my reference photographs).



So yeah. That's my productivity for the past couple of days.

On a semi-related note I've also updated the M1 picture upthread. Seems kind of lonely there by itself, so one of these days I may get around to doing a small accoutrements frame to go along with the rifle. Which of course means I'll have to do one with all the other martial small arms I've got lined up. It never ends, I tell you.

[n11pilot]

Good job as usual, Dillo.

Back in the late 80s I had a similar Mossberg. It was more of a hand held Claymore mine than a firearm. Despite the fact it had a bead sight it was never meant to be fired at eye level, but rather from close hold or from the hip. It could lay down some impressive suppression fire and generally made a mess out of the junker car that served as a test target. I eventually traded it off for a folding stock equipped version.

[AeroDillo]

I've shot one before...once. Across the breadth of a barroom it's about the best piece of fire superiority you can get. For pretty much everything else there's better options. Which reminds me that one fine day I'm going to draw up a Remington 870 with the factory overfolding stock (or at least the pistol grip assembly). Nothing says cheesy '80s action-flick goodness like those things.

As an aside...back in the days of yore when I was selling guns for a living we had a peculiar specimen come in. We sat a lot of PGO shotguns come through (and since the shop was in the hood, they didn't stick around long) but the king of them all had to be an 870 chambered for 3½ mag with a barrel cut even with the ten-round magazine extension and an aftermarket pistol grip. I seem to recall it'd been finished out of a can of black Krylon. The only thing missing was the gun carriage.

[AeroDillo]

And just in time for D-Day, the revamped M1 and (long-threatened) accessory card, finally accomplished at great loss of sleep, endless searches for reference material, and very near retinal burnout.





...I believe I'll go collapse now.

[n11pilot]

Well Dillo, at least collapse in the knowledge that you did yet another great job on another great weapon.

I know that the M1 is "Old" technology, it is fed by only an eight round clip but honestly if I were forced to use one in a tactical situation today I wouldn't exactly feel naked and helpless.

[The Oracle]

Well Dillo, at least collapse in the knowledge that you did yet another great job on another great weapon.

I know that the M1 is "Old" technology, it is fed by only an eight round clip but honestly if I were forced to use one in a tactical situation today I wouldn't exactly feel naked and helpless.

There is a reason that George S. Patton, Jr. proclaimed The M1 Garand, "the greatest single battle implement ever devised by man."

[n11pilot]

Well Dillo, at least collapse in the knowledge that you did yet another great job on another great weapon.

I know that the M1 is "Old" technology, it is fed by only an eight round clip but honestly if I were forced to use one in a tactical situation today I wouldn't exactly feel naked and helpless.

There is a reason that George S. Patton, Jr. proclaimed The M1 Garand, "the greatest single battle implement ever devised by man."

The man did know his business.