Ever buy a gun that was dangerous because of modifications by BUBBA?

[bgr2014]

If you purchase a used Rem. first thing you want to do is check the trigger, the older ones came from the factory with a coating on them that would turn into a varnish like substance. It caused a lot of problems, especially in cold weather. It would make them fire when the safety was moved to the fire position and other things. They are good triggers if maintained properly, unless Bubba has fooled with them.

 

[silverking]

Recently bought a beautiful S&W mod 66 no dash that Bubba must have Dremmeled which resulted in hammer "push off". In terms of cosmetics, the gun is flawless and the price was right for this neck of the woods so I'll hold on to it and get it fixed right.

 

[LeonCarr]

I have seen more than one 1911 with suspected bubba trigger work go full auto, and several in the hands of law enforcement and competition shooters. Thankfully they were all pointed downrange during qualification or competition.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[Flame Red]

Once bought a Colt Delta Elite from GB (before Colt re-released them) and it was Bubba'ed. Turned out that it would drop the hammer whenever the safety was released.

Worse still, I took it to the usual place to have it fixed and the smith that was there for years had quit. The new smith messed it up even worse! Finally fixed it myself and replaced the hammer, sear and thumb safety. Should have done it myself to start with.

 

[ball3006]

I bought a 03A3 that bubba had started to sporterize. None of metal had been touched. It took me 9 months of negotiating to finally buy the rifle. I gathered all the stock military parts and restored the rifle. The only thing is that the rifle had a Redfield receiver sight mounted at some time in the past. I filled the holes and refinished the repair. The rifle is a great shooter. I have a Rem 700 that I bought around 1980. I have never had a problem with the trigger. I don't use the mechanical safety on the rifle, I use the one between my ears. Since I will never sell the rifle, I don't worry about it.....chris3

 

[Threeband]

Many years ago I picked up an 03A3 at the Dallas gun show. Turned out Bubba had tried to rechamber it to .308 Norma Magnum. Anyway, that was the gunsmith's best guess at what Bubba had tried to do,but the chamber wasn't quite right even for the Norma cartridge.

I had him rebarrel it (and replace the bolt body).

 

[Archaic]

Fortunately, nothing really 'unsafe' but I picked up a Colt 1917 Army off of a guy that literally would not print on a refrigerator at 30 feet. It looked perfect and had original leather so it got cleaned and closeted.

The saddest one was the pre-64 Winchester 94 (32 Special) that some knucklehead had taken the front sight off with a grinder and scarred the barrel up really bad. I picked it up pretty cheap and did not look it over at all. Its a shooter, but its historic value was ruined.

 

[Vaarok]

The number of 8mm-06 converted Mausers that've passed through my hands has to be at least a half-dozen or more. Plus the .300 Winmag M1917s and 6.5/.257AI Japanese T38s.

There was a great deal, though, because of idiot smithing. Some guy had a Speedmaster that wouldn't cycle right. So he chainsaw-filed open the inside of the ejection port heinously, thinking that was the problem. Outside finish was fine, and strangest damn thing, it cycles fine with shorts and standard-velocity ammo, and I got it for $75 cash-and-carry because it wouldn't eat CCI minimags despite his work.

 

[Krogen]

Never bought one that had been bubba-ized. But (confession here) I bubba-ized my own Super Blackhawk. I had this hair-brained idea that I could do a trigger job on it. Afterwards, I found that I could drop the hammer simply by pushing on it. Gack! I really need to send it to Ruger and beg forgiveness. I sure has heck won't sell it in it's present condition.

Oh, my name isn't Bubba....

 

[BlackMagic308]

I have an Italian Carcano Cav gun that no one knows what "Bubba" actually did to it. But it is not safe to fire. I adopted the rifle to keep it from being cut in half, but it is a wall hanger.

 

[Skribs]

I buy all my guns new, because that way I know the only person who screwed with it is the people at the factory. I read reviews on the guns to see what the QC is on the brand, and only pick brands known to have good QC.

 

[Archaic]

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What fun is that?

 

[Skribs]

I'm the kind of guy who has fun using stuff, not fixing it.

 

[chhodge69]

I bought a Winchester 1890 chambered in .22 short that had been modified to accept .22 LR. Took me quite a while to discover why .22 short would not feed with more than 1 round in the magazine. I guess Bubba did an ok job tho because it functions fine with .22LR. Not really a safety issue but it did affect the function and value.

 

[dirtyjim]

this 1903 has a hole drilled into the chamber from a side scope mount.

the hole was filled with a set screw when i got it. it also has four holes for the receiver sight because one of the previous owners stripped out one of them.

i haven't decided exactly what i'm going to do with it yet but i'll probably install a 22 lr liner and put in a spare 1922 bolt i have making a cheap 1922 out of it or i might just rebarrel it to 22 hornet since i have the sedgley 22 hornet magazine parts.
i only paid $145 for it so i'm still ahead on parts value even with a ruined barrel.

 

[Kiln]

My buddy didn't like the trigger on his Browning .25 so he decided to do an amateur polish job on the sear because he heard it would lighten up the trigger pull. It did but the gun goes full auto randomly. This should be common sense but DON'T MODIFY THE SEAR!

 

[artbrownsr]

Warden Wolf this is a post I posted on another thread regarding Remingtons
Yeah I was hunting with my son and some buddies. I saw a moose on a roadside stopped the Blazer got the gun out, chambered a round, on examination through the scope declined to shoot as not enough brow tines to be legal, put the safety on handed the gun back to the passenger in the middle in back, he put the gun down and I got a hole dead center about where I would put a CB antenna! Moral: clear the chamber also had the gun worked on (Rem. 721) evidently not unheard of in that model.
Basically setting it down solidly set it off!