We Need to Outlaw Sandpaper

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Are you sure they did not use a draw knife? Never seen one that skinny.

[browningautorifle]

Never seen one that skinny.

The coarse sandpaper will do that in short order, all it takes is impatience.

[Singer B]

It's going to be interesting shooting it when I get it back together!

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

all it takes is impatience.

And lots if elbow grease.

[browningautorifle]

elbow grease

A few minutes with a palm sander and some pressure. That'll take of those disgusting gubmn't inspector marks.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

A few minutes with a palm sander and some pressure. That'll take of those disgusting gubmn't inspector marks.

Should be replaced with the "Bubba Been Here" cartouche, but I suppose the whole stock screams it.

[jamie5070]

I've got one that's worse. Not a garand, but an 1880's Baker dounle barrel shotgun. The nimrod before me sanded the finish off of the damascus barrels. The stock had a bad shrinkage crack that had been filled with wood putty, He sanded it out too. I saw the gun before he touched it and was trying to sell it. My step daughter got it for $40, after the damage was done and gave it to me

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Local gun shop had a fellow bring an American Eagle marked luger he had inherited to sell. The clerk told him it would be more valuable if it was German military marked. He took it home and ground the eagle off and brought it back.
Beware Bubba. He is everywhere and there is nothing he will not try.

[BVZ24]

I finished a bubba project on a Syrian Mas 49 because he started to rechamber to 7.62 but gave up half way. He cut the barrel and stock similarly to the century conversions, but decided not to cut the chamber, so no factory cartridge could fit.
It was a really nice rifle too, most numbers matching, not sanded, and no import marks.

In the past year, Local shop, they specialize in curio and relic type stuff, told me they sold a guy a really nice Ljungman and a Gewehr 43. They guy comes back a few weeks later and he had drilled and tapped both for scopes, added cheek rests, and cut the stock on the Ljungman. The bolts on both jammed because he put too long of screws in.
He demanded the shop buy them back because they didn't function, and claimed they should pay him more than the original price "because I modernized them and made them worth more"

[togor]

I finished a bubba project on a Syrian Mas 49 because he started to rechamber to 7.62 but gave up half way. He cut the barrel and stock similarly to the century conversions, but decided not to cut the chamber, so no factory cartridge could fit.
It was a really nice rifle too, most numbers matching, not sanded, and no import marks.

In the past year, Local shop, they specialize in curio and relic type stuff, told me they sold a guy a really nice Ljungman and a Gewehr 43. They guy comes back a few weeks later and he had drilled and tapped both for scopes, added cheek rests, and cut the stock on the Ljungman. The bolts on both jammed because he put too long of screws in.
He demanded the shop buy them back because they didn't function, and claimed they should pay him more than the original price "because I modernized them and made them worth more"

That's quite a sweet spot....enough money to buy those autoloaders, too little brains to know what they're buying.