I’ve got a fever…and the only prescription…is more Browning!
How do you make your Browning Automatic Rifle even more Browning? By making it part 1911 pistol, that’s how!
We noticed this among a pile of parts…someone took a BAR grip frame and welded on the pistol grip from a 1911. Yep, it’s a total Bubba modification…but I gotta say it feels better in the hand than the standard BAR grip (which I really don’t like).
Back to something a bit more recognizable, we’re adding a 1943 copy of the M1918A2 BAR shop manual today. In addition to the usual assembly and disassembly diagrams and instructions, this also includes drawings of […]
The FN Model D was the most fully developed variant of the venerable Browning Automatic Rifle. Introduced in 1932 by Fabrique Nationale (with whom Browning had collaborated extensively prior to his death in 1926), the […]
The “Bigot” was a dart-firing modification of an M1911 .45 caliber pistol developed by the Office of Strategic Services during WW2. The OSS was a clandestine operations service, the predecessor of the CIA. The Bigot […]
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Cool! Do you have anything on the “flamming bayonet” attachment for the US 1903 and 1917 Rifles? That would be pretty cool. Thanks for posting this.
It would be even “cooler” if they manage to keep the grip safety …and make it work on BAR :)))
I’d really like to see that mounted on a BAR. I’m seeing in my mind something like the Polish BAR, but I’m not sure.
Actually, one of the BARs did have a pistol grip similar to this
Yes – the Polish and Swedish BARs used pistol grips, as well as some of the FN models and some Colt commercial guns. But they weren’t 1911 frames welded on. 🙂