Call it "bubba'd" if you want.

[Cosmoline]

If you want to get out your builder's urge do what I'm doing now and build your own flintlock. I've owned many hundreds of firearms over the years, but this is the first one that will really be *mine.* It's got my blood in it, thanks to an unfortunate chisel incident.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

Sounds like fun! I've never had the BP urge myself but I can relate to the erratic chisel incident though.

 

[ElToro]

To Storm's point about money....

I knew full well going in that my yugo 48a sporter that i paid 150$ for is not worth the money i have in it getting it tuned and rebarreled in .308. but thats not the point. its MY money, its MY rifle and I enjoy shooting it more with a nice stock in a comon caliber with a recoil pad than the soft metal buttplate and (MY opionion) ugly military stock. plus the point is my son and hopefully someday grandchildren will enjoy shooting it. its semi custom and thats what i wanted.

 

[Joe Demko]

Chisels are a treacherous lot. I have s similar story of my own.

 

[Storm]

I knew full well going in that my yugo 48a sporter that i paid 150$ for is not worth the money i have in it getting it tuned and rebarreled in .308. but thats not the point. its MY money, its MY rifle and I enjoy shooting it more with a nice stock in a comon caliber with a recoil pad than the soft metal buttplate and (MY opionion) ugly military stock. plus the point is my son and hopefully someday grandchildren will enjoy shooting it. its semi custom and thats what i wanted.

Well said Eltoro. I think that sometimes there is an attitude that we should at least break even, or make money (on paper anyway) with our weapons. Heck, if put a hundred bucks more into a rifle than I'll ever get back out of it that's just the ante to play the hand, one that gives me so much enjoyment. Yeah, it's nice to be able to make a few pesos, but to me its sort of like gambling in Vegas. You may have lost a few bucks (although most everyone claims to have come out ahead) but that was the cost of your entertainment. There's a passion to what we do, shoot and collect, and often it's money be darned.

 

[dirtyjim]

i've considered doing a bp build & will probably do one in the future.
heres another one to make the collectors cringe & scream "buuba". a dwm gew98 project. its got an extended tang that will get a shotgun style safety mounted in it. it has a octagon 6.5x55 barrel. i still need to make the quarter rib & front sight ramp. the front sight insert & the one standing two folding rear express sight will come from recknagel in germany. i still need to order the trapdoor buttplate & grip cap from biesen's. the double set trigger is adapted from a muzzel loader, i have 4 rifles with DST'S & have a couple of spare DST'S from necg but i wanted something a little different on this rifle. i'm still looking for a shotgun style triggerbow that i like, i'll probably end up making my own. i'm making the lever release for the floorplate now & as soon as i have all the matalwork done i'll pull the barrel & send out everything but the barrel & the bolt to be color case hardened. the barrel & bolt will be rust blued. once the buttplate & grip cap arrives i'll start sanding the stock. the stock is a oberndorf classic from great american gunstocks, it has a lot of tigerstriping that you cant see because of the dirt & inletting black that all over it.






i'll have around $1100 in it when i'm done. i build them to keep so i'm not concerned about resale value, but most of my sporters would bring more than i originaly paid for the rifle they were built on.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

That will be THE perfect Red Stag rifle when you're done ,dirtyjim. When old school meets innovation and imagination, good things happen. Nice!

 

[Hammerhead6814]

I think "bubba'd" gets taken out of context to often. For example, if you put a Tapco T-6 stock on a SKS and did not make a single permanent modification, then it's not bubba'd it's altered in a manner that makes it more user-friendly.

However, if you cut the front sight of an SKS to style it like an AK front sight, and painted the stock black, and removed and lost/destroyed the original magazine, then you have bubba'd it.

"Bubba'd" rifles/pistols are rifles/pistols that have been permanently altered in ways that did not improve performance. Anything else isn't bubba'd.