Sporterized military rilfes....Bubba's unite!

[451 Detonics]

This stock from Timbersmith tempts me to buy a SKS and set it up with Tech Sights...



I don't really consider my Hakim to be sporterized...just a aloha camo job and homemade scope mount...



This Hakim has been sporterized....not by me tho....

 

[Spec ops Grunt]

While I generally hate sportorizing, this thread is a lot better than most.


Good work Gentlemen!

 

[ol' scratch]

This one is on gunbroker right now. In this case, the person who built this rifle did it on a cut receiver. I assume that means cut and rewelded. Actually, the work looks like quality.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=214224471

 

[Blue Brick]

Not mine...

 

[jimmyraythomason]

One of my grocery getters.

I built this rifle on a Colombian Mauser 98 original chambered in 30.06. I got the .308 barrel off gunbroker.com. The bolt is from a Parker Hale. Stock is from a Remington M798. Trigger/safety assembly is a Zastava unit. Scope is a Leupold VX-1 in Talley mounts. Brownell's supplied the aluminum trigger guard and "engraved" floorplate. It is sub moa @100yds. I did all of the work except installing the barrel myself. I hot blued it with Brownell's Oxynate #7.

 

[slicksleeve]

Jimmyray, that buck should have known better than walk in your back yard! Nice rifle.

 

[gunnutery]

451, that's a pretty sweet looking SKS. That does look tempting.

 

[451 Detonics]

jimmyraythomason...

looks like beautiful bluing job on that Mauser.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

looks like beautiful bluing job on that Mauser.

Thank you! That is high polish finished off with 555 "white" buffing compound on a medium felt wheel and blued in Brownell's Oxynate #7 bluing salts.

 

[XxWINxX94]

While I generally hate sportorizing, this thread is a lot better than most.

Agreed! Might start a project of my own!

 

[35 Whelen]

So how about it folks...got a bubbarized rifle in your safe? Show it off here. Please list the mods you have made along with pics.

Bubbarized? Come on! the term "bubba" or "bubba'ed" in the gun world is worn out. It's a term coined by the whiney types who think every military rifle ever made should be tucked in safe or museum somewhere. That being said, here's my favorite of many:

It started life as an issue FR-8 much like this one:


When the dust al settled, it looked like this:

That's the original stock which I HEAVILY modified by removing all the metal hardware then filling the voids with tinted AcraGlas gel, adding a Ruger recoil pad, bedding the receiver into the stock, then refinishing it.




I converted the 2-stage trigger to single stage and lightened the pull to about 3.5-4lbs.

Then mounted an XS Systems (Ashley at the time) Scout scope mount and mounted a Redfield reciever sight on it.



She's an extremely accurate rifle...


...and has taken more game than all my other centerfires combined.

Stand by for more...

35W

 

[35 Whelen]

Another started life as a beat up looking Mosin M-44:

Heavy external pitting, but a perfect bore. So...
I made and fitted a very low butterknife type bolt handle and worked the right rear portion of the receiver down for additional clearance. All this was done to facilitate the mounting of a receiver sight:




Next, I modified the bayo/front sight mount ro accomodate a front sight off a Finn M39:





Then finally I bead blasted the entire rig and Parkerized it:





Bedded the action to the stock.

35W

 

[35 Whelen]

Last but no least....

Not exactly sporterized, but I took a $125 Swiss K-31 and made a tack-driving, AR-15 eating match rifle.

Don't have pictures of all I did, but I first bedded it, then added a good Redfield Palma receiver sight and a Lyman 17A front:





Next I added an adjustable front sling rail...

....and a good leather cheek rest. Then finally modified the 2-stage trigger to take out the first stage and remove most of the overtravel(mod not pictured):


All that has made for an extemely accurate rifle. Shoots way, way better than I can hold:






And finally a 600 yd. target fired prone with a sling and no other support.

35W

 

[D94R]

You're right, I guess my SKS is less "sport" and more "tactical". However, nothing added to it makes it "still military configured". The SKS was never outfitted with any of those options for military use. If a scope mount and black stock make it so, then that definition has issues. Sportorized is just as subjective of a verb as any other too. Though I'm in the camp of guys that dismiss the term's "bubba, bubbarized, etc" along with the term "tactical" anymore. Everything these days is tactical.

 

[451 Detonics]

The K-31 is a rifle I have always wanted to turn into a sporter, I have found nice sporter monte carlo stocks, scope mounts, everything needed but I just don't want to add another caliber, tho I already load so many one more probably wouldn't make a difference.

It's nice seeing the receiver sights on some of these.

BTW...I used the bubba term humorously, I didn't think I would have to explain that....

 

[Otis is DaMan]

KISS

Simple effective inexpensive Yugo....

 

[35 Whelen]

By the way, there's some really nice work here guys. Kudos!
35W

 

[Storm]

Here's a K31 sporter that I ran across sitting on a rack in a shop. Had I not seen the unique bolt handle I would have looked right past it. Already having a K31 in original condition I couldn't resist it. $119 and it has a Boyd's stock and the clamp-on side scope. Those two features are worth more than I paid for the entire rifle. Since acquiring the rifle and after this photo was taken I put an original front and read sight back on and have acquired an original stock and all parts to return this rifle to original condition if I want. I generally don't go for sporter configurations, but this one is different for me, plus, I can live with it knowing that I can return the rifle to original condition any time that I want.

 

[451 Detonics]

Wish I could stumble onto a deal like that. With the straight pull bolt there would be no scope worries and there is a mount that centers the scope over the bore rather than being offset, it does require drilling and tapping however. The same company also does a great Mosin mount.

http://www.rocksolidind.com/gpage.html

 

[BrocLuno]

Bubba's been having fun in the shop. Lot's of cool ideas here. I'll post a few of mine as they get closer to shootin

 

[hiawatha]

I'm generally "anti-bubba," although the first rifle I bought was a sporterized 1917 Enfield. But 451D, that Aloha Hakim is way cool! And there are a lot of other great looking projects here.

 

[group17]

Parker Hale mk4

 

[SaxonPig]

An old professional rebuild done in Bavaria:




One I did myself starting with a barreled action:




This one was already poorly chopped when I got it so I rebuilt it correctly:

 

[BobGrand]

Lots of great looking "chops". I have one I got from my dad many years ago that he picked up already cut down and kind of butchered. He didn't do anything with it and I had it in my gun cab until this year. I am just starting to work on it so will post after I get there.

Bob

 

[35 Whelen]

Beautiful stuff Saxon!
35W