Interior of the gun is so far bone stock including springs, barrel, everything else.

Gas pedal is made of modified optic riser parts allowing me to use my offhand (left) thumb to hold the front end of the gun down under recoil very strongly.  I'm using a hold where the offhand trigger finger goes front of the trigger guard and I'm pinching the gas pedal between the left forefinger and left thumb.  So I'm already squeezing tightly down on the gas pedal with big thumb power before any shot goes off.

The sight is a one-off prototype of a Tim Sheehan design that he never released back when Goshen Enterprises was still a thing.  His Hexsite was for real, a hexagonal rear aperture and post front setup that work even when they were blurry so you could do target focus shooting just like a Red Dot but with no batteries, glass or wires.  When I knew him between 2008 and 2011 he allowed me to build my own versions of his tech on my weird magazine fed revolver.  He finally told me about a version of his concept consisting of basically just a straight hexagonal tube.  It worked extremely well on the revolver and now that I have it remounted on this Taurus I'll be able to test it under rapid fire conditions and most definitely video the results.

That's coming.

If you want a deep dive into how Tim's sights work, see also:

https://www.handgunsmag.com/editorial/accessories_hg_playingtheangles_200807/138822

If this setup works, sights like this would be really easy to make on a 3D printer or by mounting prefab sections of hexagonal aluminum tubing available at:

https://www.mcmaster.com/product/9063T33-9063T331

Tim is no longer with us.  His patents have run out.

Of course, all of these weird gun mods required a weird one-off holster.  This is a fanny pack class leather holster with a kydex core that I molded myself. The outer leather wrap holds together with four big snaps.  Pull the one ripcord and the leather blows apart like a predator's face and the Paracord continues inward to yank the kydex up and out of the body of the rig.

On a standing draw, by pulling the rip cord up and out I can keep the barrel parallel to my leg.  The draw style and speed is on par with AIWB but in my opinion it's overall a lot safer.  It's also superb for all day comfort including driving.  I built the first version while out on the road in a semi, using the frame rails of the truck as the anvil for the first rivets I put in that one.  More on how these holsters work can be found in the first 3 minutes of this video:

https://youtu.be/01uGt2fIdro

This type of holster also doesn't care if there's a weird lump on one side of the gun where an oversized gas pedal is...allowing a serious gas pedal on a street self-defense concealment piece.

The gun:

You might note the Taurus factory defect :).  This is a new no-manual-safety variant that was only recently released.  The slide still has the red dot on it showing the status of the safety position - except there is no safety :).

Other than that it has run flawlessly from day one.  It's obvious that it needs a cleaning every 200 rounds or so as it starts to feel the slightest bit "sticky" after that, but has never actually failed in any way.  Accuracy has been as good as anything else in this size range, grip feel is honestly excellent and the sites have been dead on for windage from the factory, very close in elevation for 115gr loads.  The new sights allow me some elevation adjustment of course by adding or removing shims at the rear, and I can still drift the rear in the dovetail which is Glock compatible on this model.

Yes, the gun cycles with this thing on there.  The brass outer wrap is paper thin, it's mostly hollow aluminum.

In January of 2023 I had to sell almost every gun I own except that weird revolver as my wife and I fought the financial effects of her cancer.  We are still dead broke right now.  Late last summer I emailed a particular YouTuber who runs a "free guns for poors" charity and yeah, it turns out "The Yankee Marshal Pistol Posse Project" is very real.  The Taurus G3c (recent production after the US move to Bainbridge) is also a legit contender for a budget gun.

Future mods: I'm going to have to add a weapon mounted light as compatibility with such a thing is a big feature of the Hexsite family as opposed to red dots.  Instead of the light you're shining washing out your dot, with this setup all it does is increase the contrast between the black hex and the lighter colored target - which is exactly what you want.

I'm probably also going to do the steel striker guide mod as opposed to the plastic one that's in there now.

Basically, I'm using this gun as a test bed for all kinds of weird budget mods.  Some may prove promising enough that others might want to replicate what I'm doing.  Or make sure sense of taste is too advanced...

:)

Winter rust entry, modified category? The Taurus Daily Carry Abomination...