Will you buy an ugly pistol?

[justindad]

All my pistols have to be gorgeous… unless they are given to me. Am I a rare pistol snob, or do normal people stick with purdy pistols?
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This pic came from another thread. Gorgeous pistola.

[JimB..]

I have a S&W revolver that I refer to as my prison gun, and not because it looks like it was carried by a guard!

It was inexpensive and it’s a sold performer, but is very rough on the outside.

[armoredman]

The most important is it has to be effective in the role I have selected for it, and completely functional. Looks is a distant third.

[gc45]

NO!!!! My one ugly duckling is an early Smith and their first attempt at making a double action, chambered in 44-40 and with a 20lb trigger pull.

[Winger Ed.]

Life is too short to dance with ugly guns.

[G W Wade]

Can not really call it ugly BUT Guys at the range were all talking about the gun with the owner name on side. Not as bad as imagined. But bought a 4 in Coly Python for $250 that day.. Kinded about changing my name LOL GW

[elmacgyver0]

Life is too short not to embrace All guns.

[36g]

Have bought some for movie props that weren't particularly pretty. Luckily, I didn't have to buy a working LeMat, non-firing replicas were okay...

[Daekar]

I voted no, but I want to clarify that I will buy guns which are middling to attractive... they don't all have to be a Colt 1860 Army or S&W 686. But there is a threshold below which I will not go. If I actively hate looking at a gun, or anything else, it's not coming home with me.

[GhostHawk]

I own a Hipoint C9 9mm pistol. Surely in the top 10 of the worlds ugliest guns.

Yet it is reliable, dependable, reasonably accurate, and reasonably priced.
So it works.

I also own a NAA Ranger II in .22mag that has been my EDC for a couple of months now.
It is drop dead gorgeous. It is also all Stainless Steel and pretty wood, incredibly small, and lightweight.
So it also works.

But I could buy 3 of the Hipoint's for what the little mini NAA revolver costs.





In the long run, image is nothing, function is all.

[Texas by God]

Apparently I will.....but it's pretty when I hit my target!

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[45workhorse]

Them high points also make a good boat anchor!

[elmacgyver0]

Them high points also make a good boat anchor!

Not to mention doorstop.
Ugly, but they take a licking and keep on ticking.
I know I wouldn't want to get shot by one.

[justindad]

I also own a NAA Ranger II in .22mag that has been my EDC for a couple of months now.
It is drop dead gorgeous. It is also all Stainless Steel and pretty wood, incredibly small, and lightweight.

Thanks a lot GhostHawk. Now I have to save up for another gun. That thing is awesome!

[alfadan]

Do you think ugly pistols appreciate it more?

[Winger Ed.]

Life is too short not to embrace All guns.

I used to think that until I handled a Charter Arms.
It's one I'd only take out and shoot if nobody else was at the range.

[JimB..]

Oh, you meant ugly like Glock, not ugly like worn and beat.

[DDriller]

I bought a Glock and probably will buy a Hi-Point

[Winger Ed.]

Oh, you meant ugly like Glock, .

Stop it.
Tupperware guns need love too.

[rbuck351]

I thought you were talking ugly like a Russian Nagant. I'm thinking on getting one of those.