Reverse bubba -- does anyone do it?

[Scarecrow Repair]

Seeing all the bubbad Mosin-Nagants and other military rifles sporterized to look more "innocent", I wonder if anyone has ever reverse bubbad a hunting rifle to look more military?

I don't even know if the question makes a lot of sense, but I figured I was too curious to not ask. Feel free to throw in silly answers or photoshops; I mean, I mean to say, if some dude has made a Remington 700 look like a Star Wars gun (and still work), that's good for laughs.

[croc4]

yep

people do "rescue" bubba'd rifles and return them to their original look, but this is more along the lines of rescuing a stray dog, might look good but its never gonna be a pedigree.

my take on this is, history is never absolute, look at the finns, they took nagants and improved them, I have not heard of anyone "un-finning" a rifle to its original config. so its just where you draw the line, some IMO draw the line far too close, but thats just my 2c


croc4

[Rob454]

I did that to my SKS. I thought it would be tacticool so i went to a dragunov stock. Looked ok shot ok . Then I went to a sportster stock. Eh it was ok.
I found a wood stock in perfect condition snapped it up and installed it. LOVE the way it looks now. The ONLY thing I'm missing is the cleaning rod.

[Scarecrow Repair]

I was thinking of hunting rifles made to look military

Nice posts, but what I was really thinking of was taking a bog-ordinary hunting rifle and doing ... something ... to make it look more military. Maybe a full length stock, bayonet lug, rails, not sure. Adding an Aimpoint or hanging a light or foregrip on it doesn't count, those are just accessories, and I am thinking of the rifle itself.

[Rob454]

Nice posts, but what I was really thinking of was taking a bog-ordinary hunting rifle and doing ... something ... to make it look more military. Maybe a full length stock, bayonet lug, rails, not sure. Adding an Aimpoint or hanging a light or foregrip on it doesn't count, those are just accessories, and I am thinking of the rifle itself.

What kind of rifle. Are you talking about a bolt action hunting rifle? or a old WW2 infantry rifle? ive seen plenty of rifles bubba'ed and I sort of did it to mine but all I had to do was replace a stock to bring it back to factory condition and reattach the bayonet. I don't think I would ever bubba a rifle again. My buddy did it to a M59/66. He had lights scopes mounts and a tri rail 30 round mag with all kinds of stuff hanging off. That thing was so heavy/ Looked totally ridculous. he sold it to some other idiot for 2x what he paid for the gun and all the "accessories" Personally the only guns that should be tacticooled ( is that even a word?) are today modern battle rifles. And even those people go overboard on the tacticool stuff. I prefer my rifles more basic. I have a M14. the only tacticool thing going on that rifle is a scope mount and a scope. Im not adding rails pistol grips sliding butt stocks lights or any other stuff.
Now IF i were to get a AR or a AK and that would be my main rifle and I use it for urban fighting/combat then yeah a scope , rails for a flashlight etc would be added cause it would be needed

[maxicon]

There are lots of products out there to make traditional rifles look evil, many of them geared to the .22 market.

There's the Archangel and other conversions for the 10/22, the NEF/H&R Handi-Rifle tacticool conversion (single shot tactical rifle!), and more.

Tactical 10/22


Handi-Rifle conversion


Tactical Marlin 60s

[WALDSCHRAT]

Once Bubba cuts the barrel it's all over with, unless you have lots of money and patience to find and install a milsurp barrel on the receiver. Stocks can always be found and even another stock can be made from a stock blank, but a cut barrel truly sucks.