Gunbroker bubba of the day

[atblis]

Kinda weak, but still got a chuckle out of this one.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=156849272
"This is an origanal model and has been checked for authenticity". Uhh, okay. I might be willing to give him $100 for it. Maybe.

If you've got a better one, post it up. Criteria is: a desirable/collectible military rifle that is now worthless due to a bubba kitchen table gun hack job. Even better if for some the person thinks it is now worth more than it would have been before they butchered it.

 

[Fred Fuller]

I don't have pictures or verification I can point to, unfortunately, but one of the pawn shops on Bragg Blvd in Fayetteville, NC once had a 'sporterized' Garand on the rack.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the same shop at the same time had a 'sporterized' Johnson rifle- apparently a product of the same fertile imagination as the Garand.

Believe it or not, both were stolen in a break-in not long after the first time I saw them...

lpl

 

[Zerodefect]

Uggly useless Bubba'd up mil guns thread? Ok, I'll play:



LOLz.

 

[atblis]

Oh my. Here's a good one!!
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=156782338

 

[ol' scratch]

I don't have a pick, but I was in Cabelas in Dundee about 6 months ago and they had an M1 Garand with a lower serial (1941), original lockbar sights, milled trigger and a cartouched stock. Someone had put an 18 inch tanker barrel on it, cut the op rod down and varnished and shortened the stock and front handgaurd. I went into the gun library and asked if they had any M1 Garands. The guy in the gun library (nice guy and very helpful) told me "All we have is the Garand out on the rack." I replied, "You mean the botched abortion?" He laughed.

My grandfather has an old Arisaka complete with mum and what I call the "airplane" rear sight. He sporterized it in the 60's. I will put it back together again some day. It really only needs a stock.

 

[Red Tornado]

I don't care much about Arisakas, but I hope something bad happens to the guy selling the one above. It's not that he destroyed it with the mum intact, he can do what he wants to his rifle...it's that he's trying to sell it that really annoys the hell out of me.
RT

 

[elmerfudd]

I don't have pictures or verification I can point to, unfortunately, but one of the pawn shops on Bragg Blvd in Fayetteville, NC once had a 'sporterized' Garand on the rack.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the same shop at the same time had a 'sporterized' Johnson rifle- apparently a product of the same fertile imagination as the Garand.

I don't have any pictures, but a friend of mine once had a sporterized M14 that had been smuggled out of Vietnam back in the 60's. Apparently his father had had it shipped over to Thailand where a gunsmith had polished and blued it, replaced the stock, ground off the rear sight and removed the flash suppressor and stamped it with some random commercial logos and serial numbers. It also had a jeweled bolt carrier.

Latter on another family member had tried to restore it, but it was just too hacked up. When I saw it, it had a replacement military stock on, but was missing the upper handguard. I would have liked to have seen it with the original sporter stock.

Last I heard, he had stripped it down for parts and thrown away the barrel and receiver.

 

[schlockinz]

Zero, I'm not even sure that I can recognize what the hell that gun is anymore. Looks like a ruger thirty meets mall-robo-cop

 

[atblis]

It wouldn't be too bad if you removed some of the tactical cheese graters

 

[R.W.Dale]

these threads bore me

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Arisaka sniper chin rifle with B-square rear sight mount - that one wins. Oh wait, it's also "With Mum", as the auction points out.

 

[ol' scratch]

Oh my. Here's a good one!!
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=156782338

Why on earth did he paint it green? Did you see the price he wants for that rifle? I can't believe he is asking $500 for it.

 

[lopezni]

maybe he needs $500 to support his crack habit.

 

[cottonmouth]

Aww now Zero, I got that same set up at my house! It's not that bad is it? LOL

J.B.

 

[Zerodefect]

Naw, but I have to poke some fun at that beast.

Is it so hard for Springy to make an Aimpoint ready M1 with a rail that won't move about. Never had any luck with optic mounts on M1's. Then again I've never had any good luck with M1's.

 

[Tirod]

Best part of the pics are the surreal backgrounds. Bed mattresses and '70's coffee tables really make the shot.

No "pic's" is probably a good thing, the interweb is cluttered enough with vinyl flooring, sofa material, figured carpeting, bed spreads, grayed out decking, or worse, somebody's idea of camo. Attempts at "military" are the worst.

Put it on a white sheet with lights behind it and kill the artsy craftsy. If the gun is the subject, let it be bad enough alone.

 

[ol' scratch]

maybe he needs $500 to support his crack habit.

You would have to be on crack to do something like that.