Bubbaed guns
Chris writes here about Bubba-ed guns, and I have to wholeheartedly agree. I hate finding a bubbaed gun.
The 45 I just blued was one such gun, and since it was bubbaed to begin with, I really didn’t care what else happened to it.
Now, I have “normal” sized hands. For a guy my size, I should have huge, honking, sausage finger hands. But I don’t. So shooting my 45 is an adventure- the frame bites my trigger finger, the heel of my hand, and the eavertail grip safety was just… annoying. So I bobbed the gun aft, cut a deeper fingernotch in the frame, and made some other changes to make it more comfortable for me to shoot. So the value of the gun is almost nonexistent- except to me, and I am the one who has to shoot it. So yes, My name is Og, and I bubba guns.
11 comments Og | guns, Uncategorized
I love the 1911, you said the beavertail annoyed you? The beaver tail made me and the 1911 get along soooo much better. So much the more so with the officers model. Nice work with the blue, did you use hot tanks with the nasty salts?
hot tanks, nasty salts, etc.
The beavertail ripped the web of my hand. Almost completely out.
Ha!
You want bubbaed?
I have a Kessler (look that one up- made for a couple years in the early 50’s) bolt action shotgun I pick up for zip. Cracked stock, no mag. So I bubbaed it with epoxy, & wedged in a piece of sheet brass stock for a floorplate for the (now) single shot. The epoxy cracked 1st shot, so I wrapped a hose clamp around the forend to keep the barrel attached to the rest of it.
A TRUE piece of work.
But it blasts squirrels out of trees just fine, & I can leave it on my porch without ANY fear of theft.
Only thing I would do is throw out the grips.
Og, I would dearly love to find a .357 lever action gun if you happen to run across one.
Ugh
the grips are the real thing. Not parting with them ever.
1911s are like Harleys, nobody wants a stock one.
Well, excepting really old collectors items.
I have several I have modified extensively to meet my hand shape, my carry style, my accuracy vs reliability needs for various purposes.
Grind Away.
Og, that’s not bubbaed, that’s useful prsonal modification. The definition of a bubbaed gun is when the owner makes modifications that a.)prevent the gun from functioning properly or reliably (the case with my Llama) or b.) makes the firearm so difficult to fire that you break your wrist and pawn it after two shots (magnum 12ga round while using only a pistol grip). You don’t bubba guns, you make them better for your own uses.
I think I actually own one of these animals…
Funny, I was just wondering what I could do to the grips on my Kahr to make it point more naturally. Thinking fill in where the web of my thumb is to force the point of aim down. Then I read this.
Ed, get some cheapo grips and use bondo to make them just the way you want- then make nice ones that fit.
Soon as I can get better pictures I’ll post ’em.
The only time bubbafication annoys the shit out of me is when someone ruins a collectors item. Like “sporterizing” a cherry k31 or something.
Oh and anyone who puts a laser scope on a lever action rifle needs to me mercilessly mocked.