Bubba in the Shotgun news!

[cyclone]

im not trolling i am expressing an opinion and trying to understand why others get so upset and i can and will post my opinion respectfully where ever i please.

Fair enough ...........and, quite frankly, there's no reason you should expect anything other than polite opinions and friendly ribbing..........I guess there's more-or-less 3 things (at least) that come to mind:

(1) there's a degree of "destruction of history" in each act of bubba'ing ,

(2) there's a notion that there are far better things to "tacticool", recalling that "unsporterizing" stands at the other end of the spectrum from "tacticool-a-lizing"....... ,

(3) there may be a perceived "lack of respect" inherent in the/a "bubba" trying to "improve" upon something that's been battle-tested and has earned a hard-won reputation.....

All that having been said.........there's something to be said of the true beauty of a firearm being tied to its loving and ongoing use.....

 

[drache]

I think the question is though, what defines "bubbaing"? If I'm not mistaken my Parker Hale .308 Norma Magnum that my grandfather left me, the action was from a Mauser 98? It was a beautiful gun when my grandfather first purchased it (although now it's well used and shows it's age). Now is what PH did classified as bubbaing?

 

[jcbruno]

well here it goes here is my bubbad k-31 i bought it with a missing but plate so i put on a recoil pad, and i refinished the stock & added diopter sights and a cheeck peice, and beside it is the Schultz&larssen 22 i bubbad up and love them, and now this k-31 rifle is one of the rifles i shoot the most

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[tjhaile]

That article was quite the train wreck. Take an original milsurp rifle and transform it into an ugly sporter in an oddball calibre with an action that requires a ridiculously high scope mount? Sounds like a plan!

As if to add insult to injury, there was a sidebar article on converting a Greek Mannlicher-Schoenauer to 7.62x39mm!

"Hey Cletus, we got any more of them thar silk purses? We need to make more sow's ears."

Converting intact Mausers and Springfields into fine sporting rifles might have made sense back when donor actions weren't otherwise readily available, but that just isn't the case anymore. Oh yeah, gunsmiths like Griffin & Howe, R.F. Sedgeley, or Frank Pachmayr actually did it RIGHT, as opposed to your average shadetree gun butcher. That said, I see no harm in making something nice out of a milsurp that has already been ruined beyond the point where it can be easily restored, like the above mentioned Martinis.

It may be the owner's right to do as they wish with their property, but it is also my right to mercilessly ridicule their Philistinism and bad taste. Sorry, but standing up for Bubba on this forum is like walking around Harlem with a sign that says "I hate n----rs."

Quite frankly, I see one upside to the increasing value of milsurp firearms. It discourages them from being crudely sodomized into clunky sporting rifles. If you want a cheap hunting rifle, just get a Savage.

 

[jcbruno]

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"It may be the owner's right to do as they wish with their property, but it is also my right to mercilessly ridicule their Philistinism and bad taste. Sorry, but standing up for Bubba on this forum is like walking around Harlem with a sign that says "I hate n----rs."

well i would like to think people here are a little more civil than the gangsta's of Harlem and common respect and to respectfully disagree with out name calling is common proper

 

[tjhaile]

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well i would like to think people here are a little more civil than the gangsta's of Harlem and common respect and to respectfully disagree with out name calling is common proper

Capitalization, punctuation and grammar are your friends.

If you express certain opinions in some venues, don't be surprised to catch some flak.

 

[jcbruno]

Capitalization, punctuation and grammar are your friends.

If you express certain opinions in some venues, don't be surprised to catch some flak.

i don't mind opposing opinions but just get a kick out of peoples cheeky remarks,

and no Capitalization,punctuation and grammar are not my friends can't you tell?
i don't see what this has to do with the current discussion ? and good for you, you won the spelling bee. The fact is in today's world of fast blogging and online chatting some of the queens orders and regulation's of the fine English language take a backseat.

 

[Andy]

i don't mind opposing opinions but just get a kick out of peoples cheeky remarks,....

Now you are trolling.

You do mind opposing opinons. You could have said, yea I see that this is a Milsurp Forum and I should have expected that talk of Bubba would be ridiculed, but that would have almost been an apology, or at least an admission of a misstep on your side. Instead you went on and on, posted some pics of Bubba'd guns, and so forth.

Would you like to make some friends on this Forum, or be right? In your case it won't be both, not here.

 

[cyclone]

I think the question is though, what defines "bubbaing"? If I'm not mistaken my Parker Hale .308 Norma Magnum that my grandfather left me, the action was from a Mauser 98? It was a beautiful gun when my grandfather first purchased it (although now it's well used and shows it's age). Now is what PH did classified as bubbaing?

There's a pretty well-known "loophole" that says if the rifle is already "bubba'ed", you can then go hog-wild on it....

 

[jcbruno]

Now you are trolling.

You do mind opposing opinons. You could have said, yea I see that this is a Milsurp Forum and I should have expected that talk of Bubba would be ridiculed, but that would have almost been an apology, or at least an admission of a misstep on your side. Instead you went on and on, posted some pics of Bubba'd guns, and so forth.

Would you like to make some friends on this Forum, or be right? In your case it won't be both, not here.

I apologize if that's how i am coming across i just wanted to point out that this k-31 i bought for $75 was left for junk with a smashed in but end and i brought it back to life and shoot it on average twice a week. i do agree that this is a milsurp forum and that many of you on here have a particular view on what this should mean. i thought any view or topic regarding milsurp rifles this is the place to post it am i wrong ? i won't bother posting any further on this topic.

 

[Andy]

Peace.

 

[10x]

That was the attitude that made Ross Rifles $1000+ guns. There's always an inexhaustible supply until magically that supply runs out.

That was the attitude that made the Lee Enfield in unaltered form a $300 plus rifle. They used to sell for $9.95 at W.W. Arcade in Edmonton in the mid '60s.