From: se08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth Adam Eliot)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: final summary: good, bad & ugly
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:40:49 GMT

I've organized all the responses to date by category.   This will be my
last summary of this topic, from here in your own your own...:-)

UGLIEST GUN-------------------------------------------------------------

Handgun: Calico M-100
Rifle:   AR-15 class
Shotgun: SPAS

Grendel (all models), Harrington and Richardson revolvers, Glock
.45 ACP, Ruger rifles with plastic folding stocks, Bullpup shotguns (any).

pre WWII Japanese semi-auto pistols

Hmmm,  I'd say The "space age revolver" on the cover of the Nov/Dec 92
issude of American Hangunner. [editor's choice -SE]

Shotgun: SPAS-12.  Definately one ugly gun.
Rifle/ SMG: Goncz smg (it's in Janes...)  
Pistol:  Grendel

One candidate for this is clearly the "Bolo" Mauser pistol. The old
German one with the magazine in front of the trigger guard.

 Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver.  Runner-up: any of the
        late 1800s revolving carbines.

rifle: Daisy 22s are the ugliest guns you can buy.
pistol: Almost anything chromed.
shotgun: Old pumps with the grooved forearm.

Glock. Hands down. That gun's so danged ugly, it gets my vote in _all_ 
categories. ;-)

The USAS-12 shotgun.

Well, those among you who receive SHOOTING INDUSTRY
                 magazine (a trade publication) may have seen pix of the
                 new "space age" .22 rifle Remington plans to come out
                 with. I'd give it a 10 on the ugly-meter. Other than
                 that, it's a toss-up between the SPAS-12 and the Desert
                 Eagle.

Intratec's new Category 9; Haskells/Stallards; NEF revolvers;
       Daisy .22 rifles

As for shotguns, my FN Browning Auto 5 is quite ugly.

BEST LOOKING GUN ---------------------------------------------------

Handgun: Colt Gold Cup (.45acp)
Rifle:   Weatherby (just about any of theirs)
Shotgun: Perazzi MX-8
 
blued  Colt Python (6"), Colt MarkIV .45 ACP (blue), Walther
PPK, any Italian side-by-side shotgun priced over $50000.

S&W Model 629 Classic DX (1/3000)

Colt Python
 
Rifle: HK G11.  So clean and sleek...
So what if you can't buy one...that wasn't one of the criteria.
Pistol:  Glock.  Any Glock.

Well, I just happen to like the looks of heavy target rifles. The kind
of Sako Target or TRG (well, I'm a Finn...). I don't really appreciate
decorations, just the functional and simple design.

      AutoMag   (oooohhhh.... LUST!)
 
rifle:  I love Weatherby Mark Vs if they have a clean stock without all
        the fancy crap.  Just love that massive bolt.
pistol:  compensated race guns
shotgun:  A friend's old Parker double 10ga.

Shotgun: Browning Sweet 16/Auto 5/any Browning
Auto pistol: Beretta Model 92/96
Revolver: Smith&Wesson Model 29 (nickel) or 629 (stainless)
Rifle: Marlin 336 lever-action

 The USAS-12 shotgun.

		Ruger #1 Tropical Rifle, or perhaps the 1874
                Sharps in target configuration. Or the old Luger
                carbines, done up in fine wood and engraving and
                displayed in a fitted case.

Korth revolver (best blue finish you'll ever see!); too
               many rifles & shotguns to list...

Shotgun:  HK/Olin CAWS
SMG:  Jati (Finnish I believe)
Machine gun:  M2HB.  Sexy in it's own way.

MOST INTIMIDATING LOOKING -------------------------------------

Handgun: H&K MP-5
Rifle:   Barrett .50
Shotgun: SPAS 		[SPAS-12 is obviously the people's choice -SE]
 
 The USAS-12 shotgun.

Desert Eagle .50AE, Winchester Defender shotgun, GE
mini-gun, any loaded gun pointed at me.

Streetsweeper shotgun

I think my Colt Competition Sporter HBAR AR15 with the big scope scares
most people I've met, especailly with the 30 round back to back clips hanging
out the bottom :)
 
Overall: GAU-8.  Scarier than.... especially when the A10's flying over you. 
I've had some low level passes directed at our boat (non firing) and it's
scarey/ cool enough. (For those of you that aren't familar with it, it's a
30mm tank killing cannon in the A10 Warthog)
Pistol:  Beretta 92 (you never know when the slide is going to come back
and take out your teeth)
Grenade Launcher:  Armscor 40mm revolver
Anything with a belt feed, laser dot scope and an underbarrel grenade
launcher would count, though, in my book.

Some sawed-off shotguns would really scare one at least viewed from
the wrong end...
 
Franchi SPAS-12 with folding stock.  I think there was even a
        bayonet option for it once.

rifle:  Barrett 50BMG semi auto.
pistol:  454 Casul - its looks intimidating to shoot.
shotgun:  A good ole' sawed off 10 guage side by side.

German WWII-era 2-barreled flare pistol (a Very gun for the British 
readers). It beats all sawed-off shotguns. 
 Imagine: two 26.5 mm barrels staring at you at close range...
 This ugly beast is actually cast aluminium alloy, but as all military 
toys, dull black in color (who said M16 ?). It has a very original 
trigger system (side-by-side triggers!), otherwise it resembles a double-
barreled shotgun action. It was used to launch two flares simultaneously, 
as a friend-or-foe identification, different colours for every day.
 
Auto pistol: Desert Eagle .50AE
Revolver: S&W Model 29/629, w/JHP or TCSP rounds
Shotgun: Any shotgun viewed from the wrong end. :-)
Rifle: anything in .50BMG

 Again, we opt for the SPAS-12. Ugly,
                          mean-looking contraption. Great for equipping
                          Terminators. Yeah, "I'll be back..."

SPAS-12, folding stock (first time I saw one was in the movie
           "The Hitcher")

WIMPIEST LOOKING ---------------------------------------------

Handgun: Davis .25acp (or almost any .25acp pocket pistol)
Rifle:   Marlin Papoose
Shotgun: Springfield M-6 Scout (.22LR on top, .410 bore on bottom)

any .25ACP gun made out of zinc alloy (Raven, Lorcin, etc.), SKS,
Marlin Bolt Action "Goose Gun" shotgun (they just look stupid), .22LR
Derringers, Sten sub-machine gun (all those stamped parts), any gun I have
when facing someone using a gun from category 3!

.22 caliber derringers

Any of those cheesy chrome plated-pink-or-other-cheesy-color-handgripped .25AC
P 
clone guns ... one look at those and I start laughing.

None of them are going to feel whimpy when you are looking down the barrel
of them.

Oh, this is clearly the place for the cheap Chinese air rifles!

 any 1940s-era top break .32 revolver cast from pot metal.
        Runner-up:  WWII production S&W .38 revolvers, which were
        evidently gnawed by giant beavers at the factory.

rifle:  The Steyr AUG bullpup assault rifle.  It looks like my kid's super
          soaker.
pistol:  The Ramline 22.  It looks like a squirt gun too.
shotgun:  .410 guage over/unders look silly.  (But I'd love to own one)
 
Auto pistol: That prissy little Colt 2000 (or whatever the thing is 
        called). No, wait, maybe one of those little cast zinc--err, I 
        mean "Zytel" :-) pistols, no,...
Revolver: Any DA .22lr. (SAs, like the (r.g expletive deleted) Single Six
        are OK.)
Shotgun: Not a dang one! :-)
Rifle: Can't think of any (the Daisy .22 comes to mind, but I've never
        seen one).

 The USAS-12 shotgun.

 gee, that's a broad category! Anything
                          chambered in .25 ACP scores high on the
                          wimp-o-meter. Perhaps the Raven .25 is the
 			wimp-master of the world, I don't know.

Davis/Lorcin/Raven/Jennings; Daisy rifles





 


 


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