it was really heavy and impossible to carry in a holster! I built it up for a Baron Fel TIE Fighter costume I created wore it once and used it as a display piece till I sold it off inmy Star Wars auction years back.
Nice! Yeah I picked mine up back in the 90's as a "demilled" version from shotgun news. Back then they only had to cut them in half with a band saw. I had a friend reweld it for me and built it up from there. It was such a great reweld you could hardly tell it had been ever cut. I always wondered if I could have shot it...LOL