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I was looking through an old Guns and Ammo magazine and saw a add for Gibbs Rifles, they look like military surplus knock offs. I tried a search on the web cant find to much about them. Anyone know if their still around, or of anyone that sells these rifles?
 
The Gibbs Rifle Company was heavily engaged in the bubbafication of military surplus firearms. The ones in .308 were originally Indian 7.62x51 rifles.
 
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tiriaq said:
The Gibbs Rifle Company was heavily engaged in the bubbafication of military surplus firearms. The ones in .308 were originally Indian 7.62x51 rifles.
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I would hardly call some of the George Gibbs guns from the 1900-1930 era
"bubbafication "
You either are talking about a diff Gibbs or don't know what your talking about at all & haven't seen any of his fine sporting rifles!
 
I think that tiriaq is confusing the newer "Gibbs Surplus" company in the states with George Gibbs an his products. George Gibbs rifles weren't surplus rifles at all. bearhunter
 
bearhunter said:
I think that tiriaq is confusing the newer "Gibbs Surplus" company in the states with George Gibbs an his products. George Gibbs rifles weren't surplus rifles at all. bearhunter
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And I belive that George Gibbs has been out of business since the 20's or 30's.
If you find one of his creations in good condition it will proberly be Very expensive. If you find one of his 505 Gibbs, god help you, he only made about 25 of them!
 
The recent Gibbs Rifle Co. was set-up and run by Val Forgets 'son, they specialised in modifying military rifles into sporters and selling collector military rifles. When Val Forget (owner of Navy Arms) died a couple of years ago, the son took over Navy Arms. Gibbs more or less ceased to exist after that.
 
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The add I saw was of Lee Enfield looking rifles most of which were 308, they had one called the Tanker model looked very nice Id like to find one.
 
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The worst thing about those rifles is the gawd-awful polished bolt. THats just horrible on an Enfield. The .45-70 actually looks like a nifty hunting rifle though.
 
Some folks would seem to be confusing the outstanding work done years ago by Geo Gibbs with the extensive bubbafication program run by Gibbs Rifle Company, a spin off of Navy Arms. I would have thought, bearhunter and senior, that the references to military surplus knock offs, Enfields in .308 and the scout crowd (Gibbs W.V. made scout type rifles based on surplus Enfields,) would have been clues that the thead was not about the quality arms that you were thinking of.
 
I think Navy Arms acquired the assets and names of a number of great old British firms that were failing - Parker Hale, WW Greener, and, I suspect, Gibbs of Bristol among others. They used the Gibbs name when the spin off company was established. I can remember occasional impassionned postings from the owner of Gibbs Rifle over at the old Gun and Knife board about how his company wasn't committing collector sacriledge, but was instead producing new economical products to meet the market's needs. No collector grade rifles were made into tanker carbines, etc.
 
Sorry tiriaq, I suppose one could mistakenly call my extensively engraved George Gibbs 1898 Springfield Armery krag a bubbafied military surplus!:(

Gibbs505 "And I belive that George Gibbs has been out of business since the 20's or 30's."

My particular rifle was remodelled in approx 1927-8. That seemed to be right before the end of the George Gibbs era. Michael Petrov did an article in Precision Shooting in Feb 2004 about an engraved 03 Springfield made for Henry Brace by George Gibbs, which also features my rifle which I suspect is the mate to the 03 Springfield in the article except in a 1898 Springfield-Kraig & also likely made for the same person.


I actually like that 45-70 Enfield Carbine :)
 
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Sorry tiriaq, I suppose one could mistakenly call my extensively engraved George Gibbs 1898 Springfield Armery krag a bubbafied military surplus!:(

Gibbs505 "And I belive that George Gibbs has been out of business since the 20's or 30's."

My particular rifle was remodelled in approx 1927-8. That seemed to be right before the end of the George Gibbs era. Michael Petrov did an article in Precision Shooting in Feb 2004 about an engraved 03 Springfield made for Henry Brace by George Gibbs, which also features my rifle which I suspect is the mate to the 03 Springfield in the article except in a 1898 Springfield-Kraig & also likely made for the same person.


I actually like that 45-70 Enfield Carbine :)
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Pic' pics' please.
Sounds like a great rifle.
 
Is it possible to compare a Geo. Gibbs custom rifle with a Gibbs Rifle Company genuine ex Ishapore custom No. 7 carbine? :)
 
Gibbs505 said:
Pic' pics' please.
Sounds like a great rifle.
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I tried but just can't get the friggin camera to co-operate
Nothin I take does it justice.

I posted a couple real good ones on here a long while ago, I think it was before the crash! I tried a search but can't find it either:rolleyes:
And of course when my putor crash a few months ago I lost all my good pics!!
 
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