Why bubba why!!!!

Hey if it any cold consolation and riding on what others have said about milsurps that would be highly collectible today seeing no end of evil work done by bubba back then it was more then just rifle and small arms being "made better" . LOTS of vehicles saw bubba chopping, cutting and welding away, and aircraft, good lord the wanton destruction of factory fresh AC and combat veterans make my eyes water.
 
What arrogant nonsense to protest what someone did in years past to make a rifle useful to them.
The world was awash in surplus arms in the 50s,60s and 70s.
The value of prime specimens today is because the numbers of untouched surplus guns were reduced by Bubba, to the point that demand exceeds supply. It wasn't always that way.
Bubba's gun, Bubba's choice what he does with it.
 
fredqc said:
Not too long ago they were cheap and people could get a inexpensive hunting rifle doing that. Somebody doing this these day is insane!

I remember when i stated collecting about 15 years ago russian captures were about 300$. 10 years ago some 91-30 for 125$!
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Yep, what he said.

Back in the day milsurp rifles were a dime a dozen and there was almost no collectors value for them.

So, a lot of people and gun shops bought these cheap rifles and made them into sporting rifles which they could sell easy and make a good buck on.

i once picked up a Brazilian 1908 Mauser for just over $100 bucks; converted it into a really nice sporter, and selling it for just over $400 dollars.

Now, of course, the situation is totally reversed.
 
I know a guy who once had a bubba'ed Longbranch lightened No4. You know, one of only 40 which were made for evaluation. An unmolested one now worth...a couple tens of thousands probably? One sold a few years ago at auction in the states for a crazy amount.
 
chasseur said:
I guess the problem is nobody has a time machine allowing them to see what the price of a gun common as grass now would be in the distant future
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Certainly not everyone was/is in a position, financially and otherwise, to buy up a large quantity of these guns and then wait 40 years for them to increase in value (providing they actually did).
 
The main thing is that today , it would be exceedingly rare for anyone to sporterize a original military rifle. Almost all the sporters seen today were done years ago. The bargain rifles like the Savage axis and the like make spending time and money on a old rifle impractical. But in the old days , it made sense. I have great 300 WM rifle built off a P17 that cost way less that factory at the time. Even today even though the new bargain lines of rifles are good buys IMO, I would far rather carry a sporterized military rifle. They are better rifles than many of today's "new" firearms. I have a Cogswell & Harrison converted mauser rifle in 8mm that is a great carry rifle and is far beyond any beat up truck gun.
 
I saw a video recently of an unknown (to me) model of bolt action rifle with a scope mounted. OK, the scope looks a little far back, but if the recoil is mild, might not be a problem.

Then they cycle the bolt. That's where I lost it. It is an open bridge rifle with a 90 degree bolt throw and the scope is mounted on the bolt guide or extractor, and the scope and mounts travel with the bolt!!! I wish I could find it again and paste a link. It is a very interesting bubba engineering feat.
 
35Wailin said:
I saw a video recently of an unknown (to me) model of bolt action rifle with a scope mounted. OK, the scope looks a little far back, but if the recoil is mild, might not be a problem.

Then they cycle the bolt. That's where I lost it. It is an open bridge rifle with a 90 degree bolt throw and the scope is mounted on the bolt guide or extractor, and the scope and mounts travel with the bolt!!! I wish I could find it again and paste a link. It is a very interesting bubba engineering feat.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/incslx/just_why_and_how/
 
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