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What is/was the ugliest firearm you own/owned?

EBR Works

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Got this back in about 2007 and posted on CalGuns with much discussion of it's fugliness! Sold to another CalGunner in around 2013 and he loved her for her personality ;)

 
I don’t know that it’s necessarily ugly, but my Mauser Model 34 is somewhat ungainly looking. I like it, though, because it has the German waffenamt that tells me it’s led a long and storied life.
 
That green is hard on the eyes, @EBR Works , haha!!

For me, it’s got to be my Zip22. It’s ugly inside AND out, haha!!

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Years back, I had a Armscor / early rock island
M1600 , .22 rifle
Think early M-16 with forked flash suppressor
The thing was so crude ,,,, but it worked
I heard the stock / that was lacquered black was rubber tree wood
 
Back in the 80's I was at the Culver City show, an gentleman who was 3 years younger than God walked by me with a Colt Match Target 2nd model. I asked to see the gun, he said he was selling it for $100 with 4 mags and the holster rig.

The looked like it was dragged behind a truck for a few miles, then someone with a dremmel tool pulled a Bubba and did some hacking on it. The gentleman said it was his best and most accurate. 22 and while it looked like an abortion, it would be a great shooter, so I bought it.

40 years later I still have the gun because it's a phenomenally accurate gun and extremely reliable. Everytime i pull out the gun at a match or even for fun, everyone laughs at the Bubba job, but they stop laughing when I beat them.
 
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