this is the 3rd installment on my broke ass bastid "poor man's" series, enjoy
Well I found an old Winchester 1897 takedown frame shotty and for dirt cheap from a local crackhead and said to myself "what do I do with this thing, cornhole it?, oh i know, i'll convert it to a representation of an ole M97 trenchgun". I got it and it had a 30 inch barrel and some shiny laquer looking wood on it.
now the first thing I does is order a repro heatshield/bayonet lug, sling swivel, and a buttstock from boyds cause the ole trenchers had more of a pistol grip that is fatter (like my junk) than what was on it. Also ordered a Solid Frame magazine plug cause the bayo lug needs the little dick on the end from a solid frames plug that the take down frame's plug doesnt have.
I get the heatshield and dipped it in vinegar to strip the bluing off. I then took the barrel to JB7032's house and he cut three grooves in the barrel to allow the cross bolts in the bayo lug to work. ending up with this..
note the long stupid barrel sticking out, never fear MUTHA FUCKAS, cut that bitch down to 20 inches
now we're getting somewhere bitches
Next, i needed to loose the shiny jizz finish on the wood, so i sanded the forend and buttstock. After that I usd my professional inletting device(drill) and inletted for the sling swivel. Then hand rubbed with Fairtrimmers Military ox oil,
still wet here
From here I went to re-assemble and couldnt figger out what keeps the mag tube from freely spinning on a trenchgun because the clamp that holds the mag tube to the barrel isnt used on a trenchgun, so what me and JB7032 came up with was to silver solder the mag plug to the bayo lug, this way the tube cant spin.(dont know how they did it on the real ones, but dont really give a flying rats ass cause im just going for the look here not the exact specs)
now you may wonder what i did with that now stripped heatshield, well ordered some perma blue and some plumb brown and after 2 weeks and 30 attempts to do a fake patina using a few walk throughs on various sites i finally aquired the look I was after.
Well I found an old Winchester 1897 takedown frame shotty and for dirt cheap from a local crackhead and said to myself "what do I do with this thing, cornhole it?, oh i know, i'll convert it to a representation of an ole M97 trenchgun". I got it and it had a 30 inch barrel and some shiny laquer looking wood on it.
now the first thing I does is order a repro heatshield/bayonet lug, sling swivel, and a buttstock from boyds cause the ole trenchers had more of a pistol grip that is fatter (like my junk) than what was on it. Also ordered a Solid Frame magazine plug cause the bayo lug needs the little dick on the end from a solid frames plug that the take down frame's plug doesnt have.
I get the heatshield and dipped it in vinegar to strip the bluing off. I then took the barrel to JB7032's house and he cut three grooves in the barrel to allow the cross bolts in the bayo lug to work. ending up with this..
note the long stupid barrel sticking out, never fear MUTHA FUCKAS, cut that bitch down to 20 inches
now we're getting somewhere bitches
Next, i needed to loose the shiny jizz finish on the wood, so i sanded the forend and buttstock. After that I usd my professional inletting device(drill) and inletted for the sling swivel. Then hand rubbed with Fairtrimmers Military ox oil,
still wet here
From here I went to re-assemble and couldnt figger out what keeps the mag tube from freely spinning on a trenchgun because the clamp that holds the mag tube to the barrel isnt used on a trenchgun, so what me and JB7032 came up with was to silver solder the mag plug to the bayo lug, this way the tube cant spin.(dont know how they did it on the real ones, but dont really give a flying rats ass cause im just going for the look here not the exact specs)
now you may wonder what i did with that now stripped heatshield, well ordered some perma blue and some plumb brown and after 2 weeks and 30 attempts to do a fake patina using a few walk throughs on various sites i finally aquired the look I was after.
