Just a pic of a VM-68.

[scottieb]

From yesteryear. Not mine.

[Toestr]

Gotta put the Dye stainless on there to keep it from blowing away.

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[XEMON]

There were some really cool things made from VM68 ... This is one of them 👍

Thanks for sharing

[Ecapnation]

Brad Nestle 's work

[Chaos]

Never knew that, good to know..... Was always amazed by this one

[Trbo323]

What the

Like a UL vm68?

Are there more pics? That thing is cool

Ghille-Man

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[scottieb]

It's the only pic I've got.

[Ecapnation]

Only photo of it ever taken and it's never surfaced

[DocsMachine]

Only photo of it ever taken and it's never surfaced

-l often wonder what happened to many of the custom Guns I've built over the years. It's interesting how rarely I see one come up for sale or otherwise posted somewhere.

Are they still around? Did they get parted out? Languishing, unused, in somebody's closet? Displayed with pride on a mantelpiece? Destroyed during a nasty divorce?

Doc.

[Ecapnation]

A friend of mine found a sovereign you built in a friggin goodwill.... Ufh

[DocsMachine]

I once found a Bushmaster at a pawn shop, on of my own old 'Mags at the local secondhand store, a Carbine I'd modded years ago in a pile of old markers a local mom-and-pop auto-parts store was selling, and bought a junk 'Cocker- that had been partially chromed without fully disassembling it first- at a different pawn shop.

Doc.

[FredMnkyDad10]

Was there not a posting of some awesome VM-68 milling done by several ppl. I cant seem to find it.

[DocsMachine]

How about some of the famous early-internet guns? Brad Nestle's old "Space Gun" 'Cockers, for example. The Autococker Formerly Known as Prince resurfaced over on PBNation about ten years ago. How about the SpaceMags? Heck, I made a couple Spacemag-clone grip frames, whatever happened to those?

I remember back in the Tech Talk days, a guy by name of DiveRat, had made several particularly cool 'Cocker back blocks, integrating them into the shark gills and whatnot. What ever happened to those? I recall there was a guy that milled an aluminum body for an early Stingray- where's that, today?

The sad fact is, I suspect that not everyone is an enthusiast like the average MCB'er, and after they stopped playing, got married, or moved or whatever, all that dusty old equipment was just old toys no longer needed, and were tossed.

Doc.

[Ecapnation]

The Prince cocker surfaced on pbnation bacci and I got into a price war on it.... He owns it now lol

[Trbo323]

I challenge one of you to recreate it

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[DocsMachine]

... I'm not sure I can make anything that bad anymore.

The hammer window is too big, there's tool marks visible even in a low-res JPG, the side panels haven't been annoed to match, he used the wrong screws on the grip frame, and I was making welded-and-chromed double-finger triggers for VMs 20 years ago.

Doc.

[scottieb]

Trbo meant to say "... to recreate it well."

[DocsMachine]

Send me a VM and some cash, and I'll be happy to do one up right.

Doc.

[Brokeass_baller]

This reminded me to do my annual checkup on VM68.com, and I'm saddened to see that it's down. That place has been around since I first started, back in the 90s. Hope the owner is doing alright.

[scottieb]

Bump, with more info on this one. Doc's recent posting of his customer's VM got me doing some research.

This one was featured on Olympic Paintball's website in the later 90's. Olympic Paintball had a shop in Houston and Austin.

[ford]

OMG, Olympic! I remember those folks. Woof.

[Trbo323]

Well that seems a little ambitious, I would love to see a vm firing as fast as a RT mag

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[Ecapnation]

Key word is mag here...

And having used a procomp VM for a while you can get on them just as fast as a equal period cocker or mag.

I was using one in 98 in competitive play and never felt out gunned

[DocsMachine]

Well that seems a little ambitious, I would love to see a vm firing as fast as a RT mag

-Always wondered if some of the newer force-fed loaders, some of which even back in the "ROF wars" days could keep up with 30+BPS (and DYE had a 40 BPS video) could feed a "free cycling" VM.

I think I recall somebody trying it with a 68 Special, which has a longer hammer travel, and thus slightly slower free cycling speed, but I honestly don't know how fast a standard full-weight-hammer VM would cycle.

Doc.

[Chappy]

Azzy q-loaded a 68 special with a smg 60 sear with some pretty good success, I think the squeegee port rollback was its biggest enemy causing chops. It was pretty cool though.

[k_obeastly]

after going through that much effort on a gun, why not use button head screws on the grip frame? So much effort lost but for the lack of a trip to the hardware store.