With a large portion of our work centering on full-house guns this isn’t something you see from us allot. Never the less, it something we’re quite familiar with, having done similar conversions on other Baers, Wilsons, etc, and this particular case seemed photo worthy.



This gun started life for the customer as a plane-Jane Les Baer Stinger with standard blue finish. The gun was bought new and shot for break in and to prove reliable for carry but even though the owner was diligent in his ammo and magazine selection he was never satisfied with the performance of the gun. The gun had continual feeding and ejection problems and for the time being was put aside in favor of a different daily carry piece. Eventually the gun landed in our hands with the request to make the gun run and fit for a carry piece as well as a few additional functional and cosmetic changes.

The owner had us go through the entire gun to remedy any issues and insure it would be up to the task at hand. Fine tuning the barrel fit as well as lapping the frame a slide were two good starting points. As we’ve seen before in Baers fit with Commander length slides, the frame rails and recoil seat location were Government length and not dimensionally correct for the shorter Commander length slide. This was a major factor to the guns previous feeding and ejection issues. A relatively easy fix, with a bit of cutting and trimming to the frame and in addition to some modifications to the barrel throat, feed-ramp, ejector, and extractor we had the gun feeding and ejecting as it should. And while in the shop the owner also requested a few other functional and detail modifications such as a new and more useable thumb safety, flattened and serrated slide top, Professional Grade rear sight with Gold Line front, re-crowned barrel, machined slide stop with serrated bottom, re-dressed beavertail, new trigger, French borders, and a final finish in hard chrome. Finishing the gun out with a set of durable VZ micarta stocks makes the gun complete and ready for carry and the owner is now looking forward to finally putting this gun into his daily carry line up. Enjoy!