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DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels
The Atlantic has a published a fascinating photo essay showing the Libyan rebel weapons retrofitting and manufacturing ‘industry’. [ Many thanks to Jeff & Piotr for emailing me the link. ]
Tag: DIY
Franken-gun on Uros Islands, Peru
Okki, a reader of TFB, discovered a primitive blackpowder shotgun in use by locals at the Uros floating islands on Lake Titicaca, Peru. Okki said … I was on vacation in Peru this month and while visiting the Uros floating islands on Lake Titicaca I noticed one of [Read More…]
Revolver / Open Bolt Machine Gun Hybrid
Ryan emailed in this photo of a fascinating pistol. It appears to be a homemade open bolt1 machine gun revolver. [ Many thanks to Ryan for emailing me the link. ] Open bolt refers to the fact that the bolt has a fixed firing pin and slams into the primer to fire the [Read More…]
[Guest Post] DIY How to Stipple a Pistol
[ This guest post was written by John ] A short article on how to stipple a pistol. If you have ever trained while it was hot or rainy, you may have noticed that your polymer pistol (Glock, XD, M&P) becomes slippery. One remedy for this is to stipple your pistol. [Read More…]
[Guest Post] Customizing the SKS carbine
[ This guest post was written by Drefizzle. ] Hello everybody. Today we are going to take another look at an old favorite: The SKS carbine or Samozaryadnyj Karabin sistemy Simonova. This carbine was originally designed and manufactured in Soviet Russia and was adopted [Read More…]
[Guest Post] Building a light, no-frills shotgun for basic home defense
[ This guest post was written by James. ] I think every house should have a shotgun. But you don’t need a “shoulder thing that goes up”, a potentially expensive pistol grip stock, a shell carrier on the receiver or stock, and you probably shouldn’t even install [Read More…]
[Guest Post] DIY Gun Parts
[ This guest post was written by Doug from Iowa ] Twelve years ago, I bought a MAK-90 with a thumbhole stock. I enjoyed the rifle as did my friends, but as time moved along so did my gun collection. The MAK-90 sat in the safe for longer and longer periods of time. [Read More…]
Homemade MAC-10?
This MAC-10 lookalike was captured by the Polish Police … It looks homemade to me. [Hat Tip: MP.net]
Turning a Staple Gun into a Real Gun
YouTube user GatheringSticks turned a stapler and some pipes into a functional 12 gauge shotgun. I am not sure if I would rather be behind or in front of that trigger 🙂 But seriously, the gun looks safe. Using a stapler gun as a combination trigger and striker is a [Read More…]
Mockup of .223 Remington 700 feeding from AR magazines
Two years ago I created a photoshoped mockup of a Remington 700 being fed from a 30 round AR-15 magazine. One reader was inspired by the picture and is recreating it while at working a local gunsmith over the summer. If anyone has any suggestions for Kevin, please post [Read More…]
Shotgun Guitar
Swedish police discovered a double barrel shotgun disguised as a guitar when they raided the home of a man suspected of dealing in stolen weapons. The Local reports … Aside from the six more conventional weapons found in the apartment and a quantity of ammunition, [Read More…]
Amazing Homemade Revolving Shotgun
This 12 gauge revolving is very impressive. Other than the barrel, chambers (made from old barrels) and the hammer (from a 1857 Remington revolver), this gun is completely homemade. It cocks using a lever underneath the action. More photos here. Russian manufacture MTS [Read More…]
A kid’s homemade weapon collection
The Medieval period called and they want this kid back … Compared to his kid I think I must have grown up during the stone age. [Hat Tip: SayUncle ]
Homemade Fireworks-Armed Drone
This video shows a modified off-the-shelf remote control Tricopter armed with fireworks, and firing them at hydrogen-filled balloons. More information about how to build one of these balloon-busters can be found here. The future is here 🙂 [Hat Tip: Tech Crunch]
DIY Camo Dipping (Hydrographing)
“bowhunter4e” has created a video tutorial on DIY. camo dipping (Hydrographing). I am inspired to give it a try. About half the items in my office, from my sunglasses to my stapler, would look better in camo 🙂 The DIY kit used in the video is the My Dip [Read More…]
DIY Gun Camera
The below video demonstrates a perfectly serviceable gun camera made using nothing but a sub-$10 video camera (available for around $10 or less on ebay), a rail mount and some velcro tape. The result is a very cool video. I think I am going to have to make one of these. [Read More…]
A Homemade 1.25kJ Coilgun
This homemade coilgun is very impressive. There has been a debate on AR15.com about how powerful this gun is. My guess would be a 800 grain slug traveling at 100 ft/second and generating just under 18 ft/lbs (24 joules) of muzzle energy. This is guesstimate fits in with [Read More…]
[Guest Post] Homemade tactical sights, and Brenneke-type Shotgun slugs [Part 7]
[ Y-Man, TFB’s resident Nigerian shotgunner, continues his series of guest articles about his quest to build the perfect shotgun. Being one of the lucky few in Africa to legally own a gun, he has to fabricate many parts and ammunition himself because supplies of [Read More…]
6.5mm Arisaka chambered pistol
This pistol, chambered in 6.5x50mm Arisaka, was purportedly found in a South Vietnamese rice paddy. I cannot tell if the photo it is real or a fake. The front sight is far to low, unless there is a hole drilled into that metal block above the chamber. [ Many thanks to [Read More…]
If a Glock 20 and 29 had a child …
Brian used to own a Glock 29 (10mm Auto subcompact) and liked that he could conceal it easily but did not like the lower velocity, shorter sight radius or snappy recoil. To fix the 29′s deficiencies he took a Glock 20 (full frame 10mm model) and use his stock [Read More…]
A DIY Submachine gun
A reader emailed me these photos of a homemade submachine gun built by man in Romania from the plans of Luty’s infamous book. It is chambered in .32 ACP and fires at a rate of 550 – 600 rpm. Improvements of the original Luty SMG are ergonomic maple knotwood [Read More…]
[Guest Post]: Local ingenuity: global adaptations … [ Part 5 ]
Hiya there. Y-man again. Sorry I have been away for so long. I have been very busy and have been away from access to the internet for some time now. Sadly, I have been away from my beloved shotgun too! Well, I’ve been back for a few weeks now and have done some [Read More…]
Prison Guns
The below photo is of a double barrel pistol that was loaded with matchstick heads behind a steel bullet. I guess it would be fired using a lighter. On a related note: how to reload primers using matchstick heads. [ Many thanks to James, of Hell in a Handbasket, for [Read More…]
DIY AR-15 Lower Receiver tutorial
VaderSpade posted a very nifty tutorial on how to machine a AR-15 lower receiver. You won’t save money making your own. You need a mill machine, which second hand will cost about $900, and Tactical Machining’s 80% Master Kit jig which sells for $410. [ Many [Read More…]
Homemade 12 Gauge Revolver Shotgun
Over at EveryDayNoDayOff there is a discussion about this gigantic 12 gauge revolver confiscated from a Taiwanese man. [ Many thanks to Justin for emailing me the link (I missed it on EveryDayNoDayOff, which I regularly read) ]
Homemade 9mm Pistol
This incredibably ugly (but in a good way) pistol uses Sten 9mm mag, an AK fire control group and a Luger barrel! Lots more photos and info here. [ Many thanks to Advocate for emailing me the link. ]
The Saga of the Nigerian Shotgun [ Part 3 ]
[ I recently posted a request for advice on behalf of Y-Man. He listened to the advice and made the following modifications to his shotgun. You can read the previous article in The Saga of the Nigerian Shotgun series here. This is a guest post was written by Y-Man. ] If [Read More…]
The Liberator pistol
Designed to be as inexpensive as possible, assembled from mostly stamped sheet-metal parts, the Liberator was a single shot pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge the US military was using for standard handguns and submachine guns. It was so cheap that each one set [Read More…]
[Guest Post] The Saga of the Nigerian Shotgun … Continued
[ This is a guest post is written by Y-Man. If you have been reading the blog over the past year you will have seen the incredible ingenuity he has demonstrated in Nigeria, where there exist severe restrictions on guns and ammunition. His previous exploits include [Read More…]
DIY Gun Parkerizing
I did not know parkerizing could be done at home. Hat Tip: SayUncle