A new carbine for me.

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Someone was really generous and set me up with this:

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Yes I know teh picture quality sucks. :(

It's a bubba'd 71/84 with no bolt (and a few other little things like a trigger). Now what the hell do I do with it?

I don't think it rates the priviledge of sitting in my cheapa$$ 20 buck gun rack
(thanks superstore :) )

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"...and yell, "BANG!"..." Nope. It's BLAM! It'd likely cost too much to try and get it shooting again. You could make a lamp.
 
What you have is about $20+ worth of parts, primarily in the magazine end cap with stacking rod in place and front and rear sights if they have not been buggered with. If the bore is at least VG and not cut you could get maybe $20-30 for the barrelled receiver. The valuable parts on these guns are the bolt which regularly fetch $150 on eBay, and the stock and its hardware which rarely turn up, but fetch about the same amount.

I have a few M71/84 parts guns including bolts and trigger assemblies. If the barrel is worth it, and you just must shoot it, go ahead and contact me.

As for ammo - there isn't any, you must make your own. Dies are available from Lee, and brass can be made up from 45/70. Bullets are an odd-ball 0.446" diameter and most use a special mold from RCBS or Lyman to cast their own.

See what you're up against?
 
Without a good cleaning, my first bore inspection shows it as preety good.

You're right though, it would be too much in terms of cash to get this going as a working peice. Plus I'd rather have a full (non bubba'd) 71/84.

I'll have to keep looking for one of those and a 577Snider. (I have the bug)


No one commented on my cheap gun rack. :)
 
If it isn't hurting ya, put it away. Or hang it on the den wall for a conversation piece, not everybody has seen or handled one of those. It would get attention for sure.

What you have is a good source of parts. If you should get rid of it, guaranteed, you will find a full stocked parts gun real cheap but missing all the parts that you currently have available. For me it never fails, so I throw away nothing! Murphy's law rules!

I have been sitting on a 71/84 for years (ouch, the bolt is uncomfortable!) and slowly, very slowly, though networking with other collectors, I am getting closer to a complete functioning rifle. More than one collector has donated parts to the cause (thanks Andy!) and supplied me with little bits and pieces, gratis! I in turn have have given some of my spare bits and bobs away to others trying to restore one, but sadly I have nothing for you today.

Pretty well all that I need for mine now is an extractor and I should be good to go. I have even started getting supplies together for rolling my own ammo. So close, yet so far!!!
 
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Funny you mentioned that. Some friends I know rescued a 577 Snider from a life as a lamp. Someone had drilled a small hole in the buttstock and ran the wire through he open breech and up the barrel to hold a fixture. How sad.
 
schick said:
Funny you mentioned that. Some friends I know rescued a 577 Snider from a life as a lamp. Someone had drilled a small hole in the buttstock and ran the wire through he open breech and up the barrel to hold a fixture. How sad.
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That IS sad. Even sadder. Three springfield rifled muskets with maynard tape primers, screwed to a couple of iron rings, painted black, with a floor lamp pole running up between them.

OR, lots of 03 springfield stocks made into legs for bar stools.

The ingenuity of Bubba is beyond belief.

Then there is The British guvmint's policy of de-acts.
 
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