bubba-fied

WTF??? what a waste of a type 2 stock
U.S M1 Carbine, Underwood 10-43 barrel : Curios and Relics at GunBroker.com
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Stock nothing how about that bracket bolted to the receiver!

AH, the evil that Bubba does lives after him... I wonder where the type II band came from? Too early of a carbine. Probably cut off the lug when he butchered the receiver and stock. Wanted to get it all. But. $300 it would be a decent GI shooter with a different stock and some plugs screwed into the receiver. Maybe a re-enactor will buy it to plug the bore for blanks instead of butchering a good carbine.

It would take a little work, but I think that carbine can be rescued. At three hundred it could be a project that would have some satisfaction for someone.
Fill the holes in the reciever, add a type three band, replace the handgaurd, take off all the added wood and restore the stock, repark and you have a shooter.
Rifle & shipping $335.00
Handgaurd $30.00
T3 Band $20.00
Butt Plate $15.00
Repark DIY $30.00
Stock DIY $15.00

Total $445.00

Just my thought.....Frank

About 10 years ago, I actually resurrected a National Postal Meter that was black "crinkled" painted, receiver drilled and tapped for scope mount, and stock was flat black rough painted (like bed liner spray) coated. THey guy wanted a "tracticool" modern carbine. I got it for cheap (I think $275). It had generic Type V birch stock under the bed liner, and about 50% finish under the crinkle. I did have to replace the front sight. It shot 6-8 inches high at 25 yards on the bottom setting. It took a whole can of Jasco stripper to clean it off. It was a typical post war mix-master with nothing special. Project guns like this aren't bad.

RM, Thats what I mean, fun and some reward.....Frank

It was fun to resurrect it. A feeling or rising it from the "bubbaness dead" and making it a decent weapon. Wish I had an extra $300 floating around, I might snatch it up. That would a great candidate for a repro flip and repark.

Wonder what the trigger housing internals are..........
Early housing?
Doglegg hammer?
Push safety?
Magcatch?

It's a real shame that this had to happen to a nice Underwood carbine. The wood looks fantastic, but I doubt it can be salvaged, if you look closely the buba glued and screwed the pieces of driftwood to the stock. The receiver is an even worse story; I'm a registered engineer and I would bet that the moron with the drill did not take into account where he was drilling the holes in relation to the amount of stress the receiver sees in operation. Could fail catastrophically in operation; a real shame.

AZ, painter has worked with worse wood and brought it back to life. I think the holes are small, and can be filled in without any jeopardy. JMT.....Frank

AZ's,
Comments about the safety of the receiver are more than valid.
As far as the stock is concerned........You can see they've cut quite abit of wood from the top comb area. Looks as though it's been cut all the way down to the top of the oiler slot.

IMO,
A parts gun........
Questionable receiver and junk stock.
Betting the guy was proud of his pimped out shooter.
It only needed curb feelers to finish it off :-)

Charlie-painter777

well, he got a bid without a reserve......someone is getting a "pot luck" of parts

For $580.57......

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=158543116
In case you guys forgot how a carbine is supposed to look! Thats pretty it could be my wedding gun.:D

Did any of you see what the Underwood sold for? $580 !!! I can't fidure that one out. I need to pull together all of my "junk" and make some serious cash.

OK, Maybe I am dumb or dense. I don't get why someone would pay that much for a bubba gun. If it had a type I band that was maybe original, or maybe a flip sight, there may be a chance that it has some early parts. Honestly, I am confused! Does the buyer know something we don't?