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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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Oh man! Patrick you have to write the warning in BIG RED LETTERS!!! What a crazy dude!
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HOLY COW! I didn't know there were Bubbas in Deutschland!
I though that kind of this only took place here in the south
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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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By the way Harlan, is that tractor yours?
I know Italians are keen on double parking - but that is surely overdoing it!
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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
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.
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
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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....
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