Thread: Bubba what have you done?

Originally Posted by BMcB

Unreasonably happy to have come across this fine piece of the the gunsmiths art so I can share it on here.
This Cooey Model 84 made it's appearance at the range last night.
Found in a garden shed alongside the rakes, shovels and other tools it now has a safe home.
Aftermarket aluminium buttstock to rival the best from TSK
Gave it a pull through, bore is much better than the exterior.
Shoots high, have to hold about 1.5ft low on DTL targets, bit hard on your cheek, not sure I'd like to do a 2 day sporting shoot with it.Attachment 237999Attachment 238000Attachment 238001

Some things cannot be unseen

Originally Posted by BMcB

Unreasonably happy to have come across this fine piece of the the gunsmiths art so I can share it on here.
This Cooey Model 84 made it's appearance at the range last night.
Found in a garden shed alongside the rakes, shovels and other tools it now has a safe home.
Aftermarket aluminium buttstock to rival the best from TSK
Gave it a pull through, bore is much better than the exterior.
Shoots high, have to hold about 1.5ft low on DTL targets, bit hard on your cheek, not sure I'd like to do a 2 day sporting shoot with it.Attachment 237999Attachment 238000Attachment 238001

A jandal and a tin of Ados carefully applied would make a world of difference, and lift the poi.

Couldn't make it uglier either

thats a masterpiece of kiwi do-it-yourself ingenuity. Thats whats missing in todays world .....

Im not sure if should be offended or impressed by that cooey to be completely honest....give it a really good clean up, coat the cleaned up barrel etc with some sort of lasting ceracote etc and it will last for many years to come...lighter loads will help with recoil... taller bead will help lower impact,stop being a sook and get ya head down onto the ...... oops no stock there LOL.... STICK A POOL NOODLE OVER IT..... now you got a stock to stick your cheek on LMFAO...

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

ok kiddies DONT try this at home (unless you really really want to)Attachment 100581Attachment 100582Attachment 100583
rightho....the short stainless steel thing that looks like a faarked up .12ga shell has a .410/.45 long colt chamber in it...you can purchase these off trademe,or turn one up on lathe in short time
as for the other.......piece of jack handle/pipe the right size,bored out arse of .12ga shell,right amount of packing to hold pipe in place...surprisingly it patterns very well.... now Ive got a proper one turned up with 12" barrel section this one is just kept for the zombie apocolipse LOL....
wasnt game to use a .45lc through the short one as it would be a waste...tried one through my 12" version the other day and it went bang very nicely,shell came out nicely and the projectile landed pretty much where it was aimed 20feet away...good enough for a bailed pig etc.

Kotukus here it is

Bubba'd Swedish Mauser trigger I encountered when checking a mate's rifle when sorting out another Swede for him.

Worst issue and fatal issue; sear ground away too much and at too acute an angle that even with the take up screw removed the rifle would go off if held 15cm off the ground and dropped on its butt. A very unsafe situation.

Second issue; Swedish Mauser sear bars and sears are case hardened. Taking this amount of metal off removes the hardened layer and now the surfaces are soft. I suspect someone tried to re-harden then temper the sear bar (blue temper colour mentioned below) which doesn't work with case hardened parts. You may be able to see in the second photo that the sharp edge of the sear is already rounded over and worn and a flat has worn into the top of the sear. Potentially this trigger was safe when first modified and with the wear due to now soft steel became unsafe.

Minor issue; trigger interlock stud being ground off means the trigger can be pulled when the bolt isn't all the way closed. Swedes are unlikely to go off out of battery in this situation but still not the best thing and might give the primer a bit of a slap none the less. Feeling lucky?

We decided it was best this trigger was removed from the rifle and rendering the rifle a non functional barrelled action with a bolt (unmodified) that can be used for parts. He has three Swedes, so now after a bit of parts swapping he has the two best barrelled actions fully functional and the one with the worst barrel kept as a parts gun. The bubba'd trigger will never be installed on another rifle.

Rudimentary screw and welded on extension to the trigger to take up the first trigger stage. Note the blue temper colour on the spring housing of the sear bar.


Sear ground too much and far too of an acute angle.


Trigger interlock stud ground off.

That's not ideal. Could you build it back up using a TIG process and a very hard filler metal (like a cheap 2mm HSS drill bit)?

Originally Posted by No.3

That's not ideal. Could you build it back up using a TIG process and a very hard filler metal (like a cheap 2mm HSS drill bit)?

Not worth it. If it had to be replaced, there's plenty of aftermarket triggers available and plenty of original triggers floating around. Best thing to do with it is send it to the bin.

Lol from the big blue & yellow