Gotta Love Bubba

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He took a Hungarian M91/30, drilled and tapped it for a rail. Then he gave it the bent bolt treatment, notched the wood, and added a swivel.

And then, he inexplicably switched the cocking piece with that of a Romanian M44. Then he saws off the button off the end of the cocking piece.

Oh well, I finally got that beater Mosin for hunting which lets me put my M38 back to original.

The Romanian M44 is sweet, almost matches, except for a Hungarian cocking piece. :p

I made out great, history... not so much. :D
 
canuck98k said:
He took a Hungarian M91/30, drilled and tapped it for a rail. Then he gave it the bent bolt treatment, notched the wood, and added a swivel.

And then, he inexplicably switched the cocking piece with that of a Romanian M44. Then he saws off the button off the end of the cocking piece.

Oh well, I finally got that beater Mosin for hunting which lets me put my M38 back to original.

The Romanian M44 is sweet, almost matches, except for a Hungarian cocking piece. :p

I made out great, history... not so much. :D
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Ahh, you got that deal. I thought it looked like a hungarian but figured nobody would be that stupid. Rare rifles mutilated.
 
Only the M91/30 was mutilated, but it serves my purposes very well. I wanted a bubba Mosin, to get my no longer worth $175 M38 out of an ATI stock and back into its wood.

The M44, other than the cocking piece not matching is very good. All Romanian parts elsewhere, 1954 date, great bore.

It was actually the perfect deal for me as I killed two birds with one stone.
 
Is there a posting for photos of 'Bubba'd' guns anywhere on here? I'd love to see some of the things everyone has come across. I just picked up an old Lithgow 303. It was sporterized, covered in grease and generally looked like it had been sitting in a barn for 20 years. I sprayed it down with a degreaser and started to clean it up and OH MY! A DIY gunsmith had a go at this rifle, the butt had a bunch of 2 1/2" nails driven through it to fix a crack. Found two more in the fore end under all the varnish and wood putty. And the most impressive part was the home done bluing job. The guy had taken it to a whole new level and used blue Rustoleum of all the metal parts! I got all the blue off with some super fine steel wool and have some replacement wood coming in. Wish I had thought to take pictures before I tackled that one though.

Come on guys! Lets see the Bubba!
 
I bought a milsurp years ago for $27.50 at a farm auction. One reason nobody else wanted it was because it looked like hell: the wood was painted with brown outdoor house paint, and the barrel and receiver had been painted with silver metal fence paint - long enough ago that the paint job on both was cracked and flaking. The rifle looked like an aging disco queen with eczema.

After a month of evenings spent with methyl hydrate, scrapers, dental picks and fine steel wool, I found an all-matching ERA P14 with nice wood and an excellent bore under all the gunk.
 
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