What NOT to do to a Type 38 carbine

[TexasCheesehead]

I found this one at a garage sale last year. It was a Type 38 carbine until Bubba got his hands on it. The forearm of the stock was sawn off, the bolt handle was cut off and re-welded, a weird-looking cheek piece was screwed to the stock, and it looks like the receiver was drilled and tapped with a hand drill. It would have been bad enough drilling holes in the receiver, but whoever did this didn't line the holes up. It had two scope bases on it and they were angled off in two different directions. Sacrilege!

I fired this one when I got it by bungee-cording it down to a bench and tying a string to the trigger. After ten rounds of 6.5mm surplus ammo, it stayed in one piece but bulged the cases a little.

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[WarPig1976]

Looks to be Bubba's 1st shop class project...when he was 14yrs old!!

Shame not much left to do anything with.

[vintage hunter]

His skills seem to have progressed by the time he got hold of this one.

[TexasCheesehead]

His skills seem to have progressed by the time he got hold of this one.

At least he traded in the cordless drill for a drill press, by the time he got to yours.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Now I am depressed.

[gsimmons]

My first deer rifle.$15, 40 of years ago.
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[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Thanks I feel a little better now.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

The first example makes a Kiber Pass Custom look like a work of firearm art.

[Salt Flat]

TCH, Wow! Save that rifle just the way it is for the Bubba Hall of Fame. It can represent the Cro-Magnon Era of gunsmithing. Salt Flat

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

TCH, Wow! Save that rifle just the way it is for the Bubba Hall of Fame. It can represent the Cro-Magnon Era of gunsmithing. Salt Flat

Perhaps better labled "Hall Of Shame" .
I think a dog could turn out better work than that with no opposing thumbs.