From the Mind of BUBBA
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Hutchy's Bubba
For those of you who'd like to see how the sausage is made.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...135-The-Ultimate-Bubba-SKS-build-thread/page9
For those of you who'd like to see how the sausage is made.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...135-The-Ultimate-Bubba-SKS-build-thread/page9
Found some more! Berthier cuz you just don't see them like this and a sporty 71/84.
That 71/84 would be awesome..I've always wanted to build a 1871 to look similar to that. I love the 43 Mauser similar to how loads of people love the 45-70
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Some gold on this page lol!
A rare Lee Enfield Cavalry Carbine. At least the metal wasn't butchered. I am hopeful that the saddle ring was a field expedient modification by an armourer.
As it is:
As it should be:
That saddle ring is from factory. That rifle is a Lee Metford MK1. Super rare. I missed a sportered one that was on the EE a few years ago. I think bluenoser bought it
Don't know to which your refer. Neither are rifles, they are both carbines. How does one determine whether it is a Metford or Enfield? Besides looking down the bore.
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Don't know to which your refer. Neither are rifles, they are both carbines. The Bubba is an Enfield and given the tremendous similarities between the two, I'd say the untouched should be as well.
A carbine is still a rifle. It's just a short one.
In the other post the top pic you posted is a Metford rifle (carbine). The bottom pic is a Enfield rifle (carbine)
The pic quoted here is a factory saddle ring on a Lee Metford carbine. It does appear to be a mkII not an mkI as I originally thought though.
It seems you are posting LMC's and LEC's as the same rifles
Don't know to which your refer. Neither are rifles, they are both carbines. How does one determine whether it is a Metford or Enfield? Besides looking down the bore.
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That saddle ring gave it away to me. But also an Enfield carbine will be stamped LEC 1 or LEC 1* a Metford carbine would be just stamped I or I* or II if it's not a commercial rifle
The pic of the RIC carbine in your other post is nice but the best looking LMC/LEC in my eyes are the LMC/LEC cavalry carbines
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Hi R0053Tr. "As it is" is a Lee Metford Cavalry Carbine Mark I. The saddle ring is the factory original. Canada purchased 500 of these carbines in 1895 of which this is one because the saddle rings were removed from all the British Carbines in service. Usually the serial numbers are in the 5000 A serial range. Butchered by Moron Bubba. "As it should be" is a Enfield conversion of a Lee Metford carbine c.1904 for the Irish Constabulary. JOHN
But wait, there's more! Another Swedish M94. It is part of the earliest examples from the Mauser contract. WAFFENFABRIK MAUSER OBERNDORF a/n (An der Neckar). It has been viciously maimed by Bubba. The first model SVT 40 muzzle break is a nice touch.
IMHO, that would depend on the condition of the Johnson when the smith did the work.
When those rifles first came into Canada, through Century International in Montreal, they were from offshore warehouses, where they were either left behind by US Marines or given to as Lend Lease.
They weren't allowed to return to the US as complete rifles but the parts weren't under such restrictions, other than the receivers.
Before Century started to strip them down, they approached the major firearms dealers across Canada to see if they were interested in purchasing the rifles in quantities large enough to be worthwhile. I believe, it was a long time ago, that the minimum order was 100 rifles, which was the equivalent of a full pallet.
Allen Lever was quite excited about them and we made the trip to the Montreal warehouse to see what we would get for the money, which was pricey for the time.
The condition of the rifles overall was quite good, ranging from Good to Very good for the most part, with a few hundred looking close to excellent.
That was what they appeared to be on the surface. We were allowed to fully inspect rifles from a randomly selected pallet from each ''grade'' and base our orders on what we saw.
This wasn't the norm but we had seen it before and the people at the warehouse were usually pretty good at assessing conditions.
In every grade there were rifles with shot out or badly pitted bores. Some were not functioning etc. Pretty much standard for such stockpiles.
Sidney I Robinson got there before us, which was also normal and put their placards on the pallets of rifles they wanted. They too, most of the excellent grade, but none of the other grades.
Lever managed to get four pallets of excellent grade and six pallets of Very Good grade.
We left after that, but not without checking the other grade. which was all marked "GOOD ONLY"
There were also bins of parts that were left over from warehouse stocks or had been stripped from rifles to make up many of the rifles in the "Good Only" grade pallets. This work was done in the UK, before being allowed into Canada.
In those days, it was still legal for Canadians to purchase, own and shoot full auto firearms. There were several Johnson machineguns in crates with spare parts kits available as well. Lever didn't purchase any that I know of.
There were enough parts in those bins to assemble a few hundred fully functional rifles, but condition would have been POOR at best when rated overall.
The rifle in the pic could easily have come out of those parts bins.
Whoever did the work, it's very good.
