From the Mind of BUBBA
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BeaverMeat
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Nanaimo, B.C.
Can we talk about the SKS abortion thats currently posted on the EE for 1,300 of your hard earned dollars?
The man's sales pitch is worth half of that on its own!
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The man's sales pitch is worth half of that on its own!
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MosinMan13
CGN Regular
- Location
- Thornbury Ontario
I believe you’re referring to the work of Dave Campbell, or the Blast Shadow Project or whatever he calls himself. Admittedly I agree it’s a little bubba’d but I would go check out his videos online and see the stuff he’s doing. He’s a bit of a firearms Nicolas Tesla as far as tinkering goes. It is neat.
As far as value goes, I once messaged the guy who builds these to inquire about getting one made, and I basically got told politely to bugger off, so in that sense you have your cost right there.
I’d still never pay that when I could buy a Type 81 or an SKS and just enjoy it. That said I have a lot of respect for dudes who actually go out and make things like that for themselves, could be the early onset of a firearms manufacturer later in life.
No matter how much respect you want to give him for a creative and passionate mindset, a bubba is a bubba is a bubba.
I've checked out the name you mentionned and it is one giant collection of bubbas. A complete butchery
NOT neat at all lolI hope this guy never becomes a manufacturer of anything, let alone guns. He's clearly clueless about design and finishing and aethetics.
I wish him a long and happy journey as a hobbyist. Its great content!
Receiver was tapped and drilled. Barrel shortened. I had a few parts from desporterized rifles
Oh to be able to step through a time portal and be back 50 years!
Out of this SIR catalog(1976) I bought a Ruger Blackhawk and a Single Six
for $350.
Anybody other than my dear son think buying 1 each of these instead would’ve been a wiser investment?
Out of this SIR catalog(1976) I bought a Ruger Blackhawk and a Single Six
for $350.
Anybody other than my dear son think buying 1 each of these instead would’ve been a wiser investment?
That looks like one of the old S.I.R. catalogues?
SIR usually got first dibs on everything that came into Century International's warehouses. They got most of the second levels stuff and some of the first level stuff, depending on how much they were willing to pay. One extreme example was the Johnson Automatic Rifles, complete with all accessories and a rail car load of surplus 30-06 ammo.
The M44s and M91/30 rifles were exactly half the SIR price, if you bought 10-20 at a time and much cheaper, if you bought 50 etc.
I bought 50 of the Brazilian M954 rifles for $26 each, including shipping and taxes to my door step.
One thing about SIR, you knew you were going to get a rifle with a decent finish and at least VG bores, without any pitting.
My lot of M954 rifles were pretty decent and only one was binned and stripped for parts.
SIR usually got first dibs on everything that came into Century International's warehouses. They got most of the second levels stuff and some of the first level stuff, depending on how much they were willing to pay. One extreme example was the Johnson Automatic Rifles, complete with all accessories and a rail car load of surplus 30-06 ammo.
The M44s and M91/30 rifles were exactly half the SIR price, if you bought 10-20 at a time and much cheaper, if you bought 50 etc.
I bought 50 of the Brazilian M954 rifles for $26 each, including shipping and taxes to my door step.
One thing about SIR, you knew you were going to get a rifle with a decent finish and at least VG bores, without any pitting.
My lot of M954 rifles were pretty decent and only one was binned and stripped for parts.
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Yeah, the golden age of milsurps. I remember it well. I purchased many a milsurp back in the 60s-80s. I remember purchasing a dozen Swedish M38's for $65.00 ea back in the early 80s. IIRC, there were from Century Arms and in mint condition, all parts matching to their SN.
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
I fookin' dig it fer sure. Super nice way to tweak an AR platform. Form & function in a nifty fashion.
Well that's just the coolest old catalogue, I'm going to have to see if I can find one, I've never heard of them before. Some history to look up on a Friday evening. M-42B for sixty bucks. Aren't people trying to get high side of $1500 for those these days? Isn't that somethin.
Its fun to muse over, but nope. My first M44 (new condition Polish) was 150ish$, my take home after taxes then.... 150$s a week. No way I would sink a weeks take home now on a Mosin. When I was younger and listened to people yap about cheap cars and cheap guns, I just used to ask my father what he would have been making in the military a week or a month way back when, always brought it back to reality.
Dosing, I definitely agree with what you're saying. Especially if you're only buying "one" at a time.
Right about the time that catalogue came out, I was purchasing sealed crates of all matching K98s, fresh out of East German warehouses, via International Firearms, or Century International as we know them now.
They were delivered with all accessories, including slings, ammo pouches, non matching bayonets and cleaning kits. All came fitted with muzzle guards, and all had lovely perfect laminated stocks. Of course, these were FTRed rifles and the serial numbers in the crates were non sequential.
K98s in factory crates, with sequential numbers were obtainable, but at five times the price. I can't even imagine what a crate of sequential numbered, NIW Kar 98K rifles would fetch at auction today.
I will admit, I bubbaed several crates of those beautiful East German K98s. They were cheap in comparison to a commercial sporting rifle and the cartridge they were chambered for was carried in every small business that carried ammunition. I would take off the upper hand guard, remove all the bands and cut the stock, just behind the band and round off the end, then sell the rifle for twice what I paid for it and if the person buying it wanted a good knife, he could buy a bayonet for $5 to grind into a "good hunting knife"
I usually threw in the slings, cleaning kits and ammo pouches. I would have needed a small warehouse to keep all of that stuff, which was available at "Surplus" stores, like Crown, Three Vets and dozens of others for pennies.
I found a half dozen very strange holsters at the Three Vets Surplus store in Vancouver. They were all US marked on the flaps and dark brown. Turns out they were made up especially for the "LUGER TRIALS GUNS" and were sold off after. Allan Lever, took those off my hands, I can only imagine what he did with them. Knowing Allan, he likely "gave" them to people who were interested in collecting P08 variants back then.
Canadian First Nations folks were given thousands of K98s and Lee Enfields for sustenance hunting. I don't know what ammunition they were given but I did purchase several of those rifles from them, usually carried hard but taken care of where it was important.
I didn't see any ammunition with government of Canada logos, but I remember seeing lots of Dominion brand and Winchester Western brand.
I really miss the old Dominion, CIL brands. They manufactured all sorts of ammo that quickly became unobtainable in Canada after they sold out to Valcartier Industries, or IVI as we call them now.
They produced, 6.5x55, 8x57, 7x57, 303 Brit, 43 Mauser, 7.65 Argentine (7.65x53), 6.5x53, 6.5 Carcano, 455 Webly, and a myriad list of others. Not only that, most towns had at least one business which carried everything they made, because they didn't have to pay for it until they sold it.
They even sold components for all of these cartridges, which were only available by mail order, unless you were lucky enough to have a store owner in town who didn't believe hand loading was alchemy or questionable magic.
Hudsons Bay, Simpson Sears, Marshal Wells and just about any chain store offered mail order, just like Amazon, except that's how 50% of Canadians shopped back then, for everything which wasn't perishable.
Right about the time that catalogue came out, I was purchasing sealed crates of all matching K98s, fresh out of East German warehouses, via International Firearms, or Century International as we know them now.
They were delivered with all accessories, including slings, ammo pouches, non matching bayonets and cleaning kits. All came fitted with muzzle guards, and all had lovely perfect laminated stocks. Of course, these were FTRed rifles and the serial numbers in the crates were non sequential.
K98s in factory crates, with sequential numbers were obtainable, but at five times the price. I can't even imagine what a crate of sequential numbered, NIW Kar 98K rifles would fetch at auction today.
I will admit, I bubbaed several crates of those beautiful East German K98s. They were cheap in comparison to a commercial sporting rifle and the cartridge they were chambered for was carried in every small business that carried ammunition. I would take off the upper hand guard, remove all the bands and cut the stock, just behind the band and round off the end, then sell the rifle for twice what I paid for it and if the person buying it wanted a good knife, he could buy a bayonet for $5 to grind into a "good hunting knife"
I usually threw in the slings, cleaning kits and ammo pouches. I would have needed a small warehouse to keep all of that stuff, which was available at "Surplus" stores, like Crown, Three Vets and dozens of others for pennies.
I found a half dozen very strange holsters at the Three Vets Surplus store in Vancouver. They were all US marked on the flaps and dark brown. Turns out they were made up especially for the "LUGER TRIALS GUNS" and were sold off after. Allan Lever, took those off my hands, I can only imagine what he did with them. Knowing Allan, he likely "gave" them to people who were interested in collecting P08 variants back then.
Canadian First Nations folks were given thousands of K98s and Lee Enfields for sustenance hunting. I don't know what ammunition they were given but I did purchase several of those rifles from them, usually carried hard but taken care of where it was important.
I didn't see any ammunition with government of Canada logos, but I remember seeing lots of Dominion brand and Winchester Western brand.
I really miss the old Dominion, CIL brands. They manufactured all sorts of ammo that quickly became unobtainable in Canada after they sold out to Valcartier Industries, or IVI as we call them now.
They produced, 6.5x55, 8x57, 7x57, 303 Brit, 43 Mauser, 7.65 Argentine (7.65x53), 6.5x53, 6.5 Carcano, 455 Webly, and a myriad list of others. Not only that, most towns had at least one business which carried everything they made, because they didn't have to pay for it until they sold it.
They even sold components for all of these cartridges, which were only available by mail order, unless you were lucky enough to have a store owner in town who didn't believe hand loading was alchemy or questionable magic.
Hudsons Bay, Simpson Sears, Marshal Wells and just about any chain store offered mail order, just like Amazon, except that's how 50% of Canadians shopped back then, for everything which wasn't perishable.
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Wonder no more:
She is practically mint, and runs like a champ. Granted I didnt feed it total dog$hit ammo like some, but it ate a box of vintage Hansen (180s) and some Norma (150s) and chugged through them like a 742 or BAR could only dream of. Will admit, its hard on brass, and the gun is to small for my liking, trigger is fun with its reset, and the sites sit low, and I mean low. Needs a red dot, which I may do. That said, was able to hit the 8inch gong a good number of times with the iron sites. In truth they only clipped off a few inchs of barrel, and a new muzzle extension is 20$, so you could tart it back up since the extension threading is still there. Additionally the front site plugs the gas vent hole, so even though its lost a few inchs of barrel, it drives all gas to the piston. The mag only holds four rounds, but that all said, its a handy light rifle, that goes bang every time, and seems to have its front site set for 100m, so great little rifle all around. Goes to show, globe got it right at least once.
Dosing, I should have looked closer at your photo. My bad,
The length of your barrel, after the gas vent to the piston, which pushes against the bolt to unlock it and push it back are still factory spec.
Only the flash hider assembly has been removed to shorten the overall length of the rifle to make it easier to carry/handle.
I can't see you having any issues with this rifle.
stickhunter
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Victoria, B.C.
This just sold at another Canadian retailer and the stock was mentioned as being a "Featherlite sporter stock", which I'm guessing from the result was an aftermarket product and not purely the creation of the rifle's owner. It looks like a well-engineered stock with provision for the factory stock bolt.
nowarningshot
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Must be some 100yr old Indonesian working for Boyd's.This just sold at another Canadian retailer and the stock was mentioned as being a "Featherlite sporter stock", which I'm guessing from the result was an aftermarket product and not purely the creation of the rifle's owner. It looks like a well-engineered stock with provision for the factory stock bolt.
Ya know, I'm not totally opposed to that rifle.This just sold at another Canadian retailer and the stock was mentioned as being a "Featherlite sporter stock", which I'm guessing from the result was an aftermarket product and not purely the creation of the rifle's owner. It looks like a well-engineered stock with provision for the factory stock bolt.
