Bubba rifle?

[str8shot426]

I am sure this is covered in some post in the forum. But what exactly is a "Bubba Rifle".

[tek4260]

Usually it refers to a rifle with screwed up smithing work. Round here they are called Ar-kin-saws specials where some inbred gunsmith screwed em up.

[str8shot426]

I pictured a person wearing overalls, (with no shirt of course!) "custom building" with a hacksaw, angle grinder and a cooler full of PBR.

Just wanted to confirm.

[johnson1942]

got a new word for my vocabulary, your guys are still makeing me laugh. thanks, now im going to give you guys a new word for your vocbulary. its a lakota sioux word that my lakota friends taught me. slu-slu-da. every one knows a few guys that this word describes. it means so covered in slime that know one can hang on to them. got a few slu-slu-da/s in washington. thanks for the laugh.

[uscra112]

The term no doubt dreamed up by one of my Yankee ex-compatriots whose only knowledge of the South is from watching old Bert Reynolds movies.

[Airman Basic]

I am sure this is covered in some post in the forum. But what exactly is a "Bubba Rifle".
From my reading this forum, I think it's guns that I've worked on.

[Artful]

In my mind, it's either a military rifle that has been sporterized or customized (for better or worse)
or one that just plain been badly designed/constructed by a non-professional.

Some of my bubba's
Modified Romanian 1969 22LR trainer
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_Romanian196922LR.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/Romanian196922LR.jpg.html)

Small Ring Mauser converted to 7.62x39 feeding from WASR Magazines
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_762x39MauserWASRconversion.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/762x39MauserWASRconversion.jpg.html)

Mk4 converted to 45 ACP
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_SMLE45SIAConversion_zpsd36e4ef1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/SMLE45SIAConversion_zpsd36e4ef1.jpg.html)

Ruger Mk2
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_472.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/472.jpg.html)

High Standard Victor
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_378.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/378.jpg.html)

Ar-15 set up my way for nite ops
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_278.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/278.jpg.html)

[str8shot426]

In my mind, it's either a military rifle that has been sporterized or customized (for better or worse)
or one that just plain been badly designed/constructed by a non-professional.

Some of my bubba's
Modified Romanian 1969 22LR trainer
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_Romanian196922LR.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/Romanian196922LR.jpg.html)

Small Ring Mauser converted to 7.62x39 feeding from WASR Magazines
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_762x39MauserWASRconversion.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/762x39MauserWASRconversion.jpg.html)

Mk4 converted to 45 ACP
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_SMLE45SIAConversion_zpsd36e4ef1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/SMLE45SIAConversion_zpsd36e4ef1.jpg.html)

Ruger Mk2
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_472.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/472.jpg.html)

High Standard Victor
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_378.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/378.jpg.html)

Ar-15 set up my way for nite ops
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/FAL/th_278.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/FAL/278.jpg.html)

Your examples definitely don't fit my definition:)

[Wolfer]

Mine either!

[pietro]

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A "bubba'd" gun is any that has been unconventially modified in a crude way by what looks to be (by the example of the finished work) a very in-experienced, and/or ham-handed worker.

There are even visibly different grades of "bubba'ing". :D



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[Artful]

Go to one of the collector boards with any modification and you'll at the least be called a bubba! - Trust me.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/Misc/th_0612112302.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/Misc/0612112302.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/rowdyfisk/Misc/th_P1050434.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rowdyfisk/media/Misc/P1050434.jpg.html)

[pkie44]

97756
Started as 6 1/2" Blackhawk 357 Mag, 357-44 Bain&Davis cylinder, 10 1/2" Max barrel and Bisley grip. Might be a bit "Bubba'ed":-D

[Artful]

pkie44 what kind of speeds you getting out of it?

[Artful]

So what's the worst Bubba you can find a picture of? (you don't have to own it)
I'll put up some examples from a quick google search
1
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/DavePAL84/random/R1-12.jpg
2
http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/attachments/mosin-nagant/47635d1329143377-bubba-thing-nugget-troll.jpg
3
http://i.imgur.com/7arVw.jpg
4
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7446/rustgun.jpg
5
http://cdn.hipointfirearmsforums.com/forum/attachments/f290/14178d1386183779-worst-mosin-bubba-job-image-4220189894.jpg

[pkie44]

pkie44 what kind of speeds you getting out of it?

Just got it back together this week and impatiently waiting for the weekend:(

[fouronesix]

Tweaking or customizing a usable, marketable, possibly collectible, usually original gun and reducing it's value to near zero. May also apply to vehicles or anything of value.

[Eddie2002]

Hey where's the camo paint which is so popular with the real bubba's. With me any modification to a firearm that just doesn't look right or looks half arsed and reduces the value is a bubba. Duct tape or ty wraps is a quick give away.

[Uncle R.]

Hey where's the camo paint which is so popular with the real bubba's. With me any modification to a firearm that just doesn't look right or looks half arsed and reduces the value is a bubba. Duct tape or ty wraps is a quick give away.

Hey - I resemble that remark.
I have duck hunted for many years with a Winchester Ranger pump shotgun painted in tiger stripe camo. The painted on finish is ugly as sin but it makes the gun dang near invisible in the marsh.
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Since the gun came new with a stock made of (to steal a quote from Dean Grennell) "The finest sycamore that ever grew on the banks of the Wabash" I figured I wasn't losing much by painting it. I brought it home brand new and immediately wiped it down (both wood and metal) with mineral spirits. After carefully considering all aspects of art and utility I brushed on a base layer of Parker Duck Boat Paint in their beautiful dead grass color. After it dried I tastefully striped it using Parker's lovely olive drab on a genuine bristle hair sash trim brush.
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The net result was a tough, rust resistant finish that has lasted well through many years of hard hunting. That camo paint job helped hide me and the gun from suspicious waterfowl. I needed a steel shot resistant gun with screw in chokes for waterfowling and I didn't want to abuse any of my "good" shotguns. I bought that Winchester to be my "ugly gun" because it was cheap. I didn't think much of it at first, but the joke was on me as the Ranger pump gun proved to be effective, tough and reliable in the mud and the marsh. Beauty is as beauty does, and my "ugly gun" is a heck of a general-purpose waterfowl shotgun.
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Uncle R. (Or, maybe Uncle Bubba. As you wish.)

[Artful]

Uncle Bubba - your post needs updated with a picture - such a good gun deserves enshrinement in this thread.

[Tonto]

Had a co- worker a long time ago use a dime for a front sight blade on a Ruger BlackHawk, brazed to the barrel, home made, very much a Bubba job. He reloaded ammo in a similar fashion, fill case with powder, seat bullet. Often wonder if he ever lost a finger/eye with that...I always heard banjo music when he was around, this was in SW Pennsylvania.

[Bullshop Junior]

I had. Enfield rifle that was ugly as sin with a coin front sight once... And a .318 groove...

[johnson1942]

i just figured out by reading all the post here that all my rifles are bubba rifles. they fit my son and i and shoot real good though. when he took his hunters safety course he wouldnt take the .270 as it look like a tactical bolt action and is a tack driver. he thought he would get laughed at by his friends. he did take my bubba 45/70 and every body thought that was cool. some of us just have to teak guns to our likeing.

[jeepvet]

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A "bubba'd" gun is any that has been unconventially modified in a crude way by what looks to be (by the example of the finished work) a very in-experienced, and/or ham-handed worker.


There are even visibly different grades of "bubba'ing". :D



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Dang! That means that everything I own is Bubba-ized.