Is this the ugliest Silhouette rifle ever?
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 3:00 pm
Jerry Tureau showed up to our match this morning with this hideous monstrosity. While it's nothing new to see Jerry with an ugly rifle, this one made us wonder whether it is possibly the ugliest Silhouette rifle ever.
The lack of aesthetics on this beast is only surpassed by its lack of ergonomics. I tried to hold the rifle but there is so much Bondo inside the thumbhole that a normal hand won't fit around the pistol grip. It is optimized for a shooter with only half a trigger finger. Jerry obviously attempted to use this as a chin gun back in the day because the cheekpiece is squared off so much that only a pumpkin-shaped head like Jerry's will fit comfortably.
The stock appears to have once been involved in a bad car accident and then possibly buried under a sewerage treatment plant in New Orleans during Katrina. It looks to have been painted as part of a demented kindergartner's art experiment. Speaking of demented experiments, whichever Frankenstein apprentice that did the gunsmithing somehow fitted an Anschutz 5018 trigger to the Remington action and elongated the tang under the bolt for some reason.
It's topped with a Tureau-special Tasco World Class scope boosted to 60X with optical clarity roughly equal to looking through a layer of skim milk. The stickers on the scope are filled with Tureauglyphics optimally codified to prevent information leaks should the rifle fall into the hands of the federal government.
In person, the overall effect of the rifle can best be described as queasy with a touch of yuck. We'd like to hear from the rest of the world - is this the ugliest Silhouette rifle you've ever seen or is there an even uglier troll lurking in someone's gun safe somewhere?
Merry Christmas!
Dustin
The lack of aesthetics on this beast is only surpassed by its lack of ergonomics. I tried to hold the rifle but there is so much Bondo inside the thumbhole that a normal hand won't fit around the pistol grip. It is optimized for a shooter with only half a trigger finger. Jerry obviously attempted to use this as a chin gun back in the day because the cheekpiece is squared off so much that only a pumpkin-shaped head like Jerry's will fit comfortably.
The stock appears to have once been involved in a bad car accident and then possibly buried under a sewerage treatment plant in New Orleans during Katrina. It looks to have been painted as part of a demented kindergartner's art experiment. Speaking of demented experiments, whichever Frankenstein apprentice that did the gunsmithing somehow fitted an Anschutz 5018 trigger to the Remington action and elongated the tang under the bolt for some reason.
It's topped with a Tureau-special Tasco World Class scope boosted to 60X with optical clarity roughly equal to looking through a layer of skim milk. The stickers on the scope are filled with Tureauglyphics optimally codified to prevent information leaks should the rifle fall into the hands of the federal government.
In person, the overall effect of the rifle can best be described as queasy with a touch of yuck. We'd like to hear from the rest of the world - is this the ugliest Silhouette rifle you've ever seen or is there an even uglier troll lurking in someone's gun safe somewhere?
Merry Christmas!
Dustin
