Show your work horses and bubba rifles

[ARHinAK]

Not a beater but rather a good daily driver. Pre “64” model 70, stainless Lothar Walther bbl, Pacific Research stock, cerakoted, in 338-06.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Cerakote over stainless is about as impervious as it gets. Unless you get into more recent coatings.


Hunt anything, your daughter shows very good form. Great follow through.

 

[Brian Rothhammer]

My workhorse is a 30'06 1950 Mannlicher Schoenauer with Zeiss scope.

Stoeger, 1951

Stoeger, 1952

 

[Red Leg]

My Blaser R8 wearing a synthetic stock is impervious to virtually anything and what I use where the elements or terrain can be challenging. This one is currently set up with a Success stock, S&B optics, and 257 Wby barrel. It can just as easily become a .300 or .375.

 

[mark-hunter]

I just love these old catalogues!
Thanks for posting!

 

[Ontario Hunter]

My Blaser R8 wearing a synthetic stock is impervious to virtually anything and what I use where the elements or terrain can be challenging. This one is currently set up with a Success stock, S&B optics, and 257 Wby barrel. It can just as easily become a .300 or .375.

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An R8 bubba gun. Wow. Your swather must be a BMW?

 

[Red Leg]

An R8 bubba gun. Wow. Your swather must be a BMW?

Not exactly - 2016 F250 and 1969 FJ 40

 

[PerH]

The combo with double rifle set

The
M70 pre 64 In .375

And Zastava m85 7,62x39

Black stock Dwm 08 In 7x57 Leipold
Scope

 

[ZG47]

This is the Springfield 03A3 my dad and a coworker sporterized back in 1962. It became my gun two years later when I was old enough to hunt. Shot this bull with it in 1980.
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The next year my horse rolled on me and I had to restock it. Until recently it looked like this.
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A few years ago I rebarreled it, changed the safety and striker, added iron sights, upgraded the scope and rings, and had it reblued. Getting it ready for the next generation
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Thought about restocking it but decided to keep the old one. It has stories to tell.
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I Bubba-ized both my go-to shotguns. Bought this 870 Wingmaster magnum nearly new from a HS classmate in 1968. It broke down two walnut stocks before I switched to synthetic. Had to retire it years ago when I was having retina problems.
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Then I bought a 1972 Browning A5 Magnum Twelve (with later Miroku barrel) and also used up the wood on both ends of it. This is the gun I now use for everything: waterfowl, uplands, skeet, trap, and clays. Someday I hope to shoot a turkey with it.
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Good honest use. Cannot argue with that.

 

[rdog]

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Stoeger, 1951

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Stoeger, 1952

I want a time machine!

 

[steve white]

I want a time machine!

Yeah, but $198 was close to or more than a month's salary for a HS teacher in 1951!

 

[Brian Rothhammer]

I want a time machine!

Sherman, set the Way Back Machine for the year 1939.

But why, Mr. Peabody?

Why, to purchase a 10.75X68 Mannlicher Schoenauer for $175 USD, of course!
Now, get a couple of Series 1934 'C notes' from the safe and let's go.

Can we get a .30-'06 Take Down Model for me as well?

Only if you're a good boy, Sherman. A very good boy.

 

[Hunt anything]

Here is my bird killer. Browning Citori 3.5” magnum. I bought it soon after the 3.5 came out. It’s on its third finish, factory, parkerized and now cerakoted.

 

[rdog]

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Sherman, set the Way Back Machine for the year 1939.

But why, Mr. Peabody?

Why, to purchase a 10.75X68 Mannlicher Schoenauer for $175 USD, of course!
Now, get a couple of Series 1934 'C notes' from the safe and let's go.

Can we get a .30-'06 Take Down Model for me as well?

Only if you're a good boy, Sherman. A very good boy.

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Sherman, set the Way Back Machine for the year 1939.

But why, Mr. Peabody?

Why, to purchase a 10.75X68 Mannlicher Schoenauer for $175 USD, of course!
Now, get a couple of Series 1934 'C notes' from the safe and let's go.

Can we get a .30-'06 Take Down Model for me as well?

Only if you're a good boy, Sherman. A very good boy.

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I can remember as a kid in high scool 1960 -61 there was a magazine called Outdoors it was all about Shooting , fishing, & hunting it was full of stories of Buffalo Pig & Crock shooting in QLD & the NT it also was full of adds for guns of that era i use to read it in class & Teacher took it off me, i dreamed about that stuff & neglected my school work.

 

[Hunt anything]

Here is my bird killer. Browning Citori 3.5” magnum. I bought it soon after the 3.5 came out. It’s on its third finish, factory, parkerized and now cerakoted.

I can’t get photo to load , will try again tomorrow

 

[mark-hunter]

Gentlemen, I am disappointed in this thread!
There are no bubba rifles here!
All fine working guns!

 

[Warbeast]

Gentlemen, I am disappointed in this thread!
There are no bubba rifles here!
All fine working guns!

No one said bubbas cant be working fine
They even should

 

[Hunt anything]

At one time this was a fine shotgun, now pretty much just a tool. 30 years of salt marsh and bay hunting will take the lust off of any thing.

 

[Trail Rated]

Gentlemen, I am disappointed in this thread!
There are no bubba rifles here!
All fine working guns!

Definitely a bubba rifle: my sporterized Carcano with an improvised ghost ring rear sight and front blade made higher with JB Weld. Still, it shoots very well and has been 100% reliable, and I have no qualms about it getting rough treatment afield.

 

[Brian Rothhammer]

...and front blade made higher with JB Weld.

Bubba-ness confirmed.