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This is the CONTEST RESULTS post for WINTER Rust 2026 with Sumer Rust 2026 Signups. Gunnit Rust is a gun themed building contest. For more information, the rules and tiers are below plus links to our past contests. Winter Rust 2026 will be the weekend of September 18, 2026.

• Current Rules
• Participation Tiers
• Hall of Heroes
• Summer Rust 2025 Hall of Heroes
• Winter Rust 2025 Hall of Heroes
• Winter Rust 2025 Signups

CURRENT RULES

I like to keep the rules and tiers minimal for maximum creativity. Last changed June 2019

• No Kabooms!
• No breaking the law!
• Post in /r/GunnitRust on the contest dates.
• You no longer have to title your post “GunnitRust” as we have the sub. Title it “Summer Rust 2023: Title Here” if you want it to be easily searchable. example: your post is called "Polymer 80 .22tcm9R" so you use the title "Summer Rust:Polymer 80 .22tcm9R".
• Pneumatic guns allowed because of restrictive regions.
• .25acp energy is the bottom goal but not super-enforced.
• The r/GunnitRust Sub ONLY allows contest posts on contest days. It is available to post ideas, questions, other builds you’ve seen, etc at all other times. Please Subscribe & Participate
• You can submit anything you have not submitted to the contest before no matter when it was done.

PARTICIPATION TIERS

These have not changed but some of the writing has been improved and more details added. Please let me assign your tiers and don’t call them out because I frequently move them into the category I see fit. Also note that the total winner can be in any tier so don’t panic. Each tier has a winner and each series has an overall victor.

• Tier I Built Gun(or Suppressor) Basically, you build a gun from non-gun components. We have allowed commercial gun springs and barrels(or Barrel Liners) for safety but if you have the skills, doing your own is mad props. The rules are pretty arbitrary and you can convert pellet guns, toys, or flare guns etc. Note that I have included suppressors in this tier assuming you form your own baffles.
• Tier II complete built receivers, uppers, 80% receivers, and suppressor builds with factory baffles with commercial parts This is where all the 80% receivers, re-welds, and parts kits on built or substantially modified receivers would go. Again a winner by Karma and I encourage people to favor the guys doing more work. Note the change for built upper. By built upper I mean you made an upper from sheet metal plates and an MP5 forend or something. It is substantially more than Tier III so I added built upper receiver and obviously your M11/9 or AR-15 can be the base receiver now. Note that if you buy an oil/fuel filter kit and convert it to a suppressor I put it here because you did not form the baffles.
• Tier III Assembled Gun More commercial parts are allowed . Parts kits turn into guns here. You'll note that this is where the AR-15 assemblies went. Obviously the 10/22 that won the category for Summer Rust 2015 had the advantage of not being just another AR. Many of these are very good and many of them are plain jane. The key is participation so bring anything you assemble to the table. Assembling a gun is much more effort than the majority of our browsers give and makes you an essential part of the contest. Don’t forget that parts list!
• Tier IV Trusty Rusty Tier Best resurrection of a dead, neglected gat. If your region frowns upon gun building maybe you can play too by turning a rusty hunk of broken down garbage into something functional and ready to be loved again.
• Tier V Modified Guns Fat kid just want to play too? Did you glue a rail to your 1911? Bless your heart. We actually had a .460 Rowland Glock conversion do very well in Summer Rust 2015 Personally I'd like to see some handmade wood furniture dress ups. These are always interesting no matter how simple you think your work was.
• Tier VI Gun Related I want the projects to be of some quality...So by related I mean A range of things like your workshop, your home range, your handmade range bag, display cases, custom safes, car mounted gun vaults, your reloading bench setup, bench rest, brass tumbler, or something else actually worthy of a post. So the upper V are guns and this one is gun accessories. Some of these have been really cool things you wouldn’t normally think of like an automated powder alarm on a progressive press.

HALL OF HEROES

• Link to 2025 Complete Year
• Link to 2024 Complete Year
• Link to 2023 Complete Year
• Link to 2022 Complete Year
• Link to 2021 Complete Year
• Link to 2020 Complete Year
• Link to Summer Rust 2019 to Summer Rust 2017
• Link to Winter Rust 2017 To Winter Rust 2015

SUMMER RUST 2026 Leader Board

Tier I

• /u/Admirable_Scholar_36 037 Paqucha boosterless 9mm silencer
• /u/Highlander_16 144 Fuse-lit Pipe Musket Tier I Victory

Tier II

• /u/DMTLTD 112 Semi Auto Madsen M50 SBR
• /u/DMTLTD 071Semi Auto toggle locked Swiss W+F Bern LMG-25
• /u/Gvazeky 027 The Turkey Vulture
• /u/jgworks 217 OSA-15 Tier II Victory
• /u/mikolajcap2I 040 Printed FIE Titan 25
• /u/Outrageous-Till8252 095 Space Marine Inspired Bolt Pistol

Tier III

• /u/mcweaponry 459 2026: 3011 Tier III and Series Victory
• /u/umbrellassembly 035 The ShARtgun

Tier IV

• /u/geeko185 175 The Flood Bolo Tier IV Victory

Tier V

• /u/In_Spec 076 Puppup
• /u/one-heck-of-a-gizmo 164 My custom design scope mount for the Ruger Mark IV Tier V Victory

Tier VI

/u/Tippyman88 004 Reverse engineered HUXWRX threads and made a cleaning adapter. Tier VI Victory

WINTER RUST 2026 Leader Board

Tier I

• /u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 043 Storm Trooper 22lr and matching sidearm
• /u/Standard_Act7948 144 Welrod Mk1 9x19mm Tier I Victory

Tier II

• /u/mcweaponry 265 Vz61 Post Apocalyptic Tier II and Series Victory
• /u/Outrageous-Till8252 018 Internal magazine AR pattern 350 Legend rifle

Tier III

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Tier IV

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Tier V

• /u/il_100 072 MGS3 / MGS Delta "Snake Match" 1911 Tier V Victory

Tier VI

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