Any Bubba'd / Custom Enfields? Pics please!

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Lee Enfield

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I'm curious to see any custom Enfields you may all have.

I personally wouldn't mod a perfectly good Enfield, unless perhaps there was an Enfield that was FUBAR and you wanted to go at it with a little (or big) custom job.

I'd love to see some examples of customs if any you have pics. Thanks in advance!
 
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'46 Faz No5 mk1 "Jungle Carbine". I found it with the lug ground off, the finish stripped & (well) hot blued & the stock inletting destroyed. Since this was taken I've found an original P-H 5-round semi-recessed mag as well.

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Very nice :)

I'd want a re-imagined jungle carbine, too ;)

I guess we're a very small subset of Enfield fans wanting to customize them...
 
I'm curious to see any custom Enfields you may all have. * * *
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I'd love to see some examples of customs if any you have pics.
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Here's pic of a custom L.E. .303, but it wasn't done by anyone named "Bubba." ;)


 
Nice custom Enfields so far :)

I think it's too bad that "Bubba'd" makes people think it's not a well done or professional custom job.
 
To me there's "sporterising" & Bubba.
Sporterising is doing it well, even BSA made "sporters".

Bubba uses a blunt chisel & a rusty hacksaw.
 
@wogpotter: Good point and thought. I always thought of sporterizing as a manufacturer's rendition of a model, but I guess it doesn't have to be. Bubba'd creations makes more sense to have been a custom job done by a non-professional with whatever tools were available.
 
I can't bring myself to think of mine as "bubba'd", as it was my father's deer rifle when he was a young'un and in need of a rifle to go hunting with his uncles. He pulled it from a barrel of cosmoline, then sporterized it himself. I think he did a really fine job, especially considering he was a still a teenager when he did it. It's not much of a shooter (likely a so-so barrel), but all the numbers match, and because it was my dad's, and I grew up with it in the house, and it's the firearm that eventually got me into shooting, it's one of my most valued rifles. I don't have kids of my own, but one day, one of my nieces or nephews will be able to say they own their grandfather's deer rifle.

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That Enfield example looks impeccable, MrBorland :)

I usually just stick with the term "custom".

As for Bubba'd, well... I may have made my definition of "Bubba'd" a little too broad, as even a sawed-off shotgun would be considered Bubba'd then. Maybe it is correct, maybe it isn't. I do imagine, though, that it would have to be an obviously visible hodge podge, MacGyver-style job fitted with non-exact/specific parts done by a non-professional.
 
Saw a couple at my local Cabela's, unfortunately no photos.

One was a WW2 Dated ROF(F) No5, that had the front sight/flash hider assembly removed, and had what looked like a shotgun bead in its place. It was also somehow converted to an internal blind magazine.:mad:

Also saw a No 4 (I think it was a Savage) that the stock had been whittled sown to a sporter type, and the barrel was chopped with a hacksaw, visibly crooked. The cut was at least 5º off of square. Crown? We don't need no stinkin' crown. :eek:
 
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