Any projects you have done or plan to do like a 303 scout or a number 5 repro extra points for pictures.Not just Enfields I would like to see any resurected milsurp bubba or even a really well done sporter.
Best projects for a bubba'd Enfield
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Unsub said:
Have a look at "Saving a Burnt-out Jungle Carbine" on Steve Redgwell's site, http://www.303british.com/
I have a BSA-sporterized P-14 (OK, not technically an Enfield) which a prev. owner had glass-bedded, added a Timney trigger to and installed Weaver scope bases. All I did was refinish the stock:
It's a bit heavy, but quite accurate, around 1.25" @ 100m
StuartNumrich has those JC repro kits . The forestock and handguard don't look anything like a No5 ,but they should work for a L42 or a L39 lookalike using a bubba'd No4...abit of $$ tho.
Anyhoo...here's my resto of a '43Savage No4...
My " Frankenfield T"
Anyhoo...here's my resto of a '43Savage No4...
My " Frankenfield T"
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Some nice rifles,I especially like the P14 I belive it has front locking lugs like a mauser.Now if a company like Wolf would make a good cheap noncorrosive shell in 303 like they did for the 7.62/54 we could get another hundred years out of our Enfields.
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- WMU248 near Edmonton
Un bubbaed Savage - Faz No4Mk1/3
It has a proper unbubba butstock on it now
Un bubbaed Longbranch No4Mk1*
just needs a little more work on finishing the wood to match
I don't do bubba
It has a proper unbubba butstock on it now
Un bubbaed Longbranch No4Mk1*
just needs a little more work on finishing the wood to match
I don't do bubba
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- Tucson, Arizona
No "bubba's, but I have two EAL's and a couple of Aussie range rifles plus a Parker-Hale sporter.
Well, maybe one bubba. A friend gave me a No4 some years ago that had the barrel shortened and the stock set back, so it looked like a midget No4. Had that converted to 7.62x39.
Well, maybe one bubba. A friend gave me a No4 some years ago that had the barrel shortened and the stock set back, so it looked like a midget No4. Had that converted to 7.62x39.
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- WMU248 near Edmonton
John Sukey said:No "bubba's, but I have two EAL's and a couple of Aussie range rifles plus a Parker-Hale sporter.
Well, maybe one bubba. A friend gave me a No4 some years ago that had the barrel shortened and the stock set back, so it looked like a midget No4. Had that converted to 7.62x39.
Ok I also have an EAL, and a Parker Hale sporter, and a pile of bubba rifles that I'm in the process of replacing the wood.
I have a few other bubba's that cannot be, economically, salvaged (2 now). And one day I will have to do something with them.
This is one of the bubba's done by Globe Co, barrel is absolutely mint 5 groove.
I don't know what I'm going to do with it
The other is a collection of FTR parts built up on a Savage reciever. Its been given the full bubba treatment, and the war expedient 2 groove barrel is actually bored off center. I'm thinking that its going to be a platform for an enfield wildcat 35/303, new barrel new wood (stock up like the envoy, or No5)
I've got a rusted up P14 that is absoloutley f@rked up. I plan, in the future, to have it rebarreled to something really heavy, scoped and all around bubbafied. Don't get upset, it's already been semi bubbed beyond restoration to military config...
FWIW, I have a complete winchester P14 action sitting in my projects drawer salvaged off a CAI Centurion Piece of Sh.. that one day will be either a .375 H&H or .404 Jeffries...
But I don't consider such rifle's to be bubbas if they are tastefully done by a good riflesmith and no collectible rifles were harmed in the process.
Now a simple chop job and BBQ paint coating, on the other hand, is almost unforgiveable!!!
But I don't consider such rifle's to be bubbas if they are tastefully done by a good riflesmith and no collectible rifles were harmed in the process.
Now a simple chop job and BBQ paint coating, on the other hand, is almost unforgiveable!!!
I was just looking at my last issue of African Hunter magazine, which has an article entitled "606 Mammoth - Quest for the Biggest Gun" and the author (Marshall Jones) states, "All my African rifles are built on some variation of the P17 action... Mammoth Rifle Number One is built on a Remington 720 action... (which) conveniently has a straight bolt handle... which becomes painfully obvious with the recoil of this cartridge."Gibbs505 said:
He lathe-turned Barnes 900 grain .600 Nitro bullets to .599. Hawk provided jacketed bullets. He loaded 130 grains of RL15 for 2100 fps. "To be honest, the recoil is substantial..." (No kidding!) "In preparation for my last safari I fired 400 rounds of .505 Gibbs, with 200 of them off the bench. Just before that hunt my shoulder became sore and started aching.Later there was numbness in my fingers... My physical therapist determined that I had a ruptured disk in my neck that was pinching a nerve..."
Here are a couple of pics from the article, Unfortunately, this section of the magazine is printed in low-contrast brown-black ink and doesn't reproduce well.
Stuartps- I guess this could also have gone in the "What is the hardest-kicking rifle..." posts on CGN!
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seems like most of the "bubba's posted are actualy quite nice sporters.
But then I classify a "Bubba" as one where the forend had been chopped with a hacksaw, checkered and reshaped with a wood rasp, and suffered a cammie paint job.
Once bought a Ross for parts with all of the above mentioned mods.
But then I classify a "Bubba" as one where the forend had been chopped with a hacksaw, checkered and reshaped with a wood rasp, and suffered a cammie paint job.
Once bought a Ross for parts with all of the above mentioned mods.
I am just wondering if bubba rifles will ever become collectable, and if so, will some be more collectable then others.
A garage hack-sawed piece would be classified as a fine collectors bubba, and one from Ellwood, (who was a bubba extraordinary in his time), would have less value?
And that “How to convert military rifles” be declared the bubba's Bible.
A garage hack-sawed piece would be classified as a fine collectors bubba, and one from Ellwood, (who was a bubba extraordinary in his time), would have less value?
And that “How to convert military rifles” be declared the bubba's Bible.
Project
OK....not from bubba....but it started out as an original LB "T" stripped receiver....and then a properly marked Lyman Alaskan scope and REL mount.
OK....it is not matching but it is pretty I think. I still have to find a Long Branch bolt for it (preferably in the 73-74L range). Can't wait to test fire it.
Mario
OK....not from bubba....but it started out as an original LB "T" stripped receiver....and then a properly marked Lyman Alaskan scope and REL mount.
OK....it is not matching but it is pretty I think. I still have to find a Long Branch bolt for it (preferably in the 73-74L range). Can't wait to test fire it.
Mario
