Prize entry for "Bubba's Hall of Shame"

Just to cheer you all up on this sunny Sunday afternoon, take a look at this.

http://egun.de/market/item.php?id=3363624

The seller - a thoroughly respectable company here in Mauserland - appears to have been landed with several of these monstrosities, and describes them with appropriate modesty as "for parts, or to keep as a curiosity". Even if Bubba felt he just had to exercise his machining skills, why did he have to pick a fine example of a collectable rifle? And then, why on earth fit an old "Kurvenvisier" - not exactly the best possible sight in the world. And no foresight ????

Take a look at the other examples as well. If anyone has a rational explanation for these perpetrations, I would be delighted to hear it.

Patrick
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wow...

Oh man! Patrick you have to write the warning in BIG RED LETTERS!!! What a crazy dude!

HOLY COW! I didn't know there were Bubbas in Deutschland!

I though that kind of this only took place here in the south

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...firstcar-1.jpg

The thing I have always found amazing was when a one of CUSTOM firearm was sold by it's loving owner, they always want a fortune for it. They don't understand that it was built specially for them and probably won't even fit another shooter. Not only that but they're generally hideous. Sometimes dangerous. By the way Harlan, is that tractor yours?

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Originally Posted by browningautorifle

By the way Harlan, is that tractor yours?

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I know Italians are keen on double parking - but that is surely overdoing it!

The last photo seems to show a purple(?) front sight assembly, I think.

It doesn't look so much "bubba" as some sort of test rig.

Not made for asthetics, but too much work for a cobble job. The extra linkage surrounding the trigger and lever is interesting.

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Originally Posted by browningautorifle

By the way Harlan, is that tractor yours?

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Why, yes it is! (Try to control your jealousy)

My truck looked so cool after I finished customizing it I just had to do my tractor too.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...1/06/113-1.jpg

My neighbors are so impressed with my talent they're always getting me to take care of their vehicles for them.
(Heck, I even impress myself at times and I'm building up a pretty astounding photo portfolio of my custom work)

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Originally Posted by jmoore

The last photo seems to show a purple(?) front sight assembly, I think.

It doesn't look so much "bubba" as some sort of test rig.

Not made for asthetics, but too much work for a cobble job. The extra linkage surrounding the trigger and lever is interesting.

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I agree with jmoore. Probably a machinist student's engineering design test bed? The lever mechanism looks like a bunch of redundant locking mechanisms used to hold it closed when firing the .500 Nitro Express it might be chambered for !!

Emri


https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...p1110168-1.jpg

I was thinking maybe an Ammunition testing thing with "quick change" barrel and extractor access, but on closer inspection it seems too new. Most real load developers will build a universal receiver with turnbolt, but who knows? There's some hideous Winchester factory test beds that are known.

This peice is industrial looking, but not crude. Very strange.

The supplemental sliding lock(?) is a kinematic nightmare but ...

I think the sights were probably of secondary importance. Get it close after fitting the QD universal front sight and than lock in place. Just so the operator doesn't shoot the chronograph? Or maybe for shooting test AP projectiles? Or....

The caliber is marked on the receiver: 6,5x57R.

This is an old German hunting cartridge favored for drillings (no that there are many of them in active use these days). As a cartridge for break-top rifles, it has a Pmax of 3300 bar, and certainly no more "oomph" than a Swedish 6,5x55 (3900 bar). The guy may have been an ace machinist, but IMOH he ruined a good rifle to demonstrate it.

Patrick
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Careful Harlan, they'll be accusing us of hijacking the thread...but some of those are true mechanical marvels!

Yes, I better be careful or one of those meddling moderators might get on to me and spoil my day. :lol:

That convoluted mechanical system for the rifle just reminded me of some of the things I've seen around these here parts of the world.

Sometimes design is hard to improve on, and our forefathers were mechanical geniuses in my opinion. Even though simple in appearance and function they put a lot of thought into them.
When you take into account what people like Browning and Mauser did 100 years ago and the designs are still the basis for almost everything, it makes you wonder how far we've actually come in our computer driven age.

MR. CHADWICK, You have to be the most fortunate man in BAVIARA!!! what you have here is the first prototype of PAUL MAUSER's original design for the K98 MODEL98 > congrats to you..

I just wonder if the current caliber is all that signifcant to the story behind that oddity. It looks like a swap barrel gun for testing various calibers. I know that barrels are more tightly controlled in Germay and Austria, but it's not all that uncommon on the other side of the pond to do one rifle with multiple barrels. Benchresters particularly seem to like this feature. But that's no benchrest rifle!

But WHY use, of all things, a Turkish Peabody-Martini??? They are teeth in a chicken-ranch in this country. We certainly don't have enough to wreck.

And I absolutely cannot fathom the purpose of all that extra metal under the basic action. Like, HOW do you improve a Peabody-Martini??? They were so close to perfect that even the Swiss are still making them.

Guy must have gone to the Rube Goldberg School of Gunsmithing & Design.:yikes::eek::yikes::eek::yikes:

I am lost, pure and simple.
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Mayhaps that the receiver was basically junk and this enterprising soul gave it some sembalence of new life.

Hey it could happen.

A peculiar firearm to say the least!

Lou