Filling Bubba Holes

[Cantom]

Just give Jason a call. Gunco, in Nepean. Its not going to be inexpensive; postage for the barrelled receiver back and forth is going to be $40 or so, all by itself.

He guessed about $50 plus shipping both ways, it'll knock the heck out of $100. I originally bought the rifle for $200 from Collectors Source, so I'll have about $400 in it when I'm done including everything I've done to it, which is still less than it's worth these days. I'll feel better with it back to stock condition.

[stencollector]

Partial payment...hehehe

Was the Brit sniper reasonable or the usual astronomical?

Reasonable, considering todays market. I actually bought it for resale, but I havent had a chance to even look it all over yet. If this current heatwave holds up until next week I'll take it out and shoot it.

Instead of the usual "snipers equipment list" on the inside of the lid of the box, is the origional ad where it was sold for $79.95, way back when.

[Cantom]

Gunco in Ottawa. Probably one of the best outfits in Canada for gunsmithing services

It took from December until today but I just got my 49 rifle action back and reassembled it. Jason did a hell of a job! As he said you can see slight marks in the bluing where the bubba holes were (dissimilar metals blue differently) but so slight that I can live with it. The rifle is beautiful and back to original configuration. It was an unissued rifle that came back from Greece.
I cheated and put on one of the NOS parked buttplates because it's new and I have a box of them, but I have the blue one as well. Bore is a very mint 5 groove.

[Pete04]

Looks great! Money and time well spent. Congrats!

Pete

[Cantom]

Looks great! Money and time well spent. Congrats!

Pete

Thanks Pete. Did you see the before pics? (I think I deleted them all, can't find any now) I had a friend install a $5 Weaver base...very sad. I feel a lot better now.

[tiriaq]

That certainly turned out well. I think that this is really the best way to deal with this sort of situation. Rifle looks really good.

[Cantom]

That certainly turned out well. I think that this is really the best way to deal with this sort of situation. Rifle looks really good.

I agree, it is the right way to deal with drilled holes in a receiver. First Jason threaded in set screws to fill the holes, then he welded over the holes and made it smooth...took him a long time to get it how he wanted it. I doubt anyone could have done a better job. It is so smooth and perfectly profiled, you can't feel or see anything other than the slight difference in the bluing. He reblued the whole action it appears. Colour is the perfect blue/black and matches the bolt exactly which stayed with me.
Since it was such a nice rifle to start with it was worth dropping the $ into it...I still have a reasonable amount in the rifle since I've had it since they were $200 rifles.

[Claven2]

FYI, what actually happened is that it was TIG welded, but the original front receiver ring screw hole had some rod-flux bleedover that didn't take blueing in a small spot. Alot of guys would have sent you the rifle like that, but Jason doesn't let sub-par work out of the shop, so he took off the weld on that hole, had it re-tig'd at his expense, and then reblued the action a second time. Jason doesn't do the TIG welding personally, he subcontracts it to a professional welder as he generally gets better results that way.

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[Pete04]

No, I didn't see the before pics, but I had the same sort of problem on one of my Lees and I solved it by buying the sight to re-mount to the holes that were drilled'n'tapped into my reciever!! I hope you learn your lesson! Stop drillin' holes in your recievers.LOL LOL (at least the ones your gonna sell to me, damnit! LOL)

Pete

PS Claven2, your scarin' us dude! You can see right through that screen! Can't you?!!

[Cantom]

FYI, what actually happened is that it was TIG welded, but the original front receiver ring screw hole had some rod-flux bleedover that didn't take blueing in a small spot. Alot of guys would have sent you the rifle like that, but Jason doesn't let sub-par work out of the shop, so he took off the weld on that hole, had it re-tig'd at his expense, and then reblued the action a second time. Jason doesn't do the TIG welding personally, he subcontracts it to a professional welder as he generally gets better results that way.

And yes, I still know all... see all...

You probably saw my action at his shop when you were there recently?