set_player_viewmodel( "dempsey_viewhands");
        set_player_interactive_hands( "dempsey_viewhands");

Since self is defined (being the player) you can use self.entity_num to manually set the viewhands yourself in the line at the bottom (755) do something like this instead

	// MikeD (3/28/2008): If specified, give the player his hands
	if( IsDefined( level.player_viewmodel ) )
	{
		vm = undefined;
		switch( self.entity_num )
		{
			case 0:
				vm = "hands1";
				break;
			case 1:
				vm = "hands2";
				break;
			case 2:
				vm = "hands3";
				break;
			case 3:
				vm = "hands4";
				break;
		}
		if(IsDefined(vm))
			self SetViewModel( vm );
		else
			self SetViewModel( level.player_viewmodel );
	}

Thanks! Will try it out and see how it goes!

So I finally got around to trying this, unfortunately it hasn't seemed to work. All players still had Dempsey's viewhands. Was I supposed to replace the "vm" text with my viewhands model or the "hands1-4" text with the viewhands model? Does anyone have any other ideas?

Replace "hands1-4" with your viewhands model 

Make sure that you're adding this correctly to your map/mod. As saving in map will be overwritten by mod.

As in you have duplicates one in mod and the original one in raw. As the mod will take precedence over map.

No make sure you only have one and that's in map or specifically patch since you can rebuild it easily.

Try placing it in mod iwd and see if that does anything

pprob not working due to not being precached

and you need to be using the loadout that is in your "mod" as it loads that "over" the one from raw is what hes saying

told you a million times - do not edit raw

Where about a would I precache it? I know, that's why I was confused when he said to edit raw?

init_loadout()
{
	level.default_weapon = "zombie_colt";
	level.last_stand_weapon = "zombie_colt";

PrecacheModel( "MODEL-NAME-HERE" );