What is the worst thing you have done to your Uzi

[Roaster72]

So this weekend I had a friends get together at my personal range. My range is out a ways on my property so we loaded up in two trucks and drove down. Shortly after we got to the range I went to switch my uzi (Vector FA) from 22 to 9mm and my stupid Coastal suppressor came apart and the bottom cap stayed on the Uzi. No amount of twisting would remove it. No problem, my son had driven down on a dirt bike and I would take that back up to my shop and use the vice. I rode up, got the cap off, started driving back to the range and I dropped the Uzi. In the Mud. Then I drove over it with my back tire. Apart from some mud wedged in the sights everything was fine.

So what have you done?

 

[Slowmo]

Not really bad, but I’m about to have to beat it with a hammer since the ejector’s got the wiggles.

 

[K2]

Open safe.

Slides of shelf.

Lands on foot.

Gun was unharmed.

K2

 

[mike]

I cut my barrel restrictor ring off, thinking my bolt was hitting it causing failures to go in the battery and light strikes. I was wrong. I sent it to John and he welded a new feed ramp with the restrictor on less than learned

 

[Starvingboy]

Not a uzi, but:

I was painting the daughter’s dirtbike a nice girlie-blue color. For whatever reason, I sprayed some on my stemple, thinking “ if I don’t like it, it will wipe right off with gun cleaner…”

It did not wipe off. I got made fun of for a few years as having “that really long ugly gun”

There is still some traces of blue paint if you know where to look.

 

[deadduck]

My Group Industries Uzi was absolutely beautiful. She was factory green.
Bought her new. Had all the accessories. Plenty of spare parts. I could just stare at her for hours.

I got married and sold her.
Wife convinced me we needed money for bills. ☹️

My divorce was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I think about her every day.

NO!
NOT MY WIFE!

 

[slimshady]

Way back in the day someone was selling Group Industries semi auto shells for IIRC $89. An UZI parts kit was just a few dollars more. I came across an IMI semi auto bolt and striker assembly somewhere, I remember thinking it was expensive but the exact number escapes me. A little hole in the wall gunshop had a rifle length bbl hiding among the shotgun bbls sticking out of an old kitchen trash can. Took a year or more but I finally had all the parts.

Unknown to me at the time those shells were not exactly to finished spec. So I welded everything up, and test firing revealed failures to feed, light strikes, and ejection problems. Again, not knowing much about UZIs I tried a few different things but never could get through a magazine without at least one malfunction.

One day as I was cussing at it a guy a few tables over at the range came over and asked if he could see it. He asked me what I wanted for it, I did some quick mental math and sold it to him for about what I had in it.

A few months later I see him there firing an UZI. No jams, he ran probably 3 mags through it. I recognized my not totally professional looking welds and asked how he had fixed it. Turns out the shell was a little twisted. He had clamped the front end in a vice and used a big crescent wrench on the back end to tweak it straight.

Stupid, stupid, stupid! It would be years before I built another one, that time it took a few hundred more bucks...

 

[Garrett]

Does this count?

 

[mike]

Love the Mag.

 

[ccosby]

People seem to take offense at me painting transferable guns fun colors. Uzi didn't piss people off as much as the M11/380(bonus points if you recognize the guy shooting it)

 

[trilogymac]

Circa 1987, heavy 9mm bullets for subs were hard to find so I started experimenting with 158gr .38 RN bullet.A buddy and I were function testing loads in a B-G bolt gun without a suppressor. Had a detonation, broke the extractor, bent the top cover and the only thing left of the case was the head. Replaced the extractor, fixed the top cover with a dead blow and rocked on. Good times!!
I did keep the case head and broken extractor as a reminder.

 

[gorillastomp]

Open safe.

Slides of shelf.

Lands on foot.

Gun was unharmed.

K2

A customer of mine this weekend did the exact same thing but it hit the corner of the safe and shattered the left side fore grip. Lucky him I had a replacement.

 

[arch stanton]

People seem to take offense at me painting transferable guns fun colors. Uzi didn't piss people off as much as the M11/380(bonus points if you recognize the guy shooting it)

Is that Mr. Tom Wright

 

[AKarms]

Probably like 15+ continuous mag dumps

 

[ccosby]

Is that Mr. Tom Wright

Nope, Mike Woodward of TSC Machine.

 

[arch stanton]

Nope, Mike Woodward of TSC Machine.

Hard to tell

 

[Samuel_Hoggson]

Running it with a hard plastic buffer. Increasing ROF seemed like a neat idea. Can't prove it, but suspect it led to the backplate weld failing. Wasn't a big deal to reweld but......

 

[SecondAmend]

I bought my full size, full auto Vector Uzi, lightly used, in 2006. The worst thing so far is not what I did, but what I failed to do. The grip safety seemed pretty stiff to me, and over the years many shooters expressed the same thought, but I never did anything about it.

In 2017, I bought a newly made (one of the last ones, as it turned out) Vector semi-auto Mini Uzi. The grip safety was (and still is) prefect - not too easy/not too difficult. That prompted me to buy a new safety spring and install it (which is kind of a pain) in the full size, full auto Uzi - remarkable! The full auto Uzi grip safety is now what it should have been all along.

MHO, YMMV, etc.

 

[pmf]

Got to the range and realized I'd brought a bag of sten mags instead of the bag of uzi mags.

 

[chipster]

had a double-charge 45ACP blow off the top cover, almost permanently install the barrel in the restrictor ring. Human was fine, can was fine and eventually pounded the barrel out into the trash can. Receiver was ok.