Worst sporterization attempt ever?

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Brundle-Fly

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I saw an Enfield where the bubba had cut the dovetail for
a sporting rear sight INTO the bore: you could look down
the bore and see the base of the sight. Makes a little bedding
compund ooze look positively benign.
 
Thank you Langenator for posting the link that the thread starter was too lazy to post.
 
Cement, perhaps?

"Fully bedded" is bit too generous, I'd say it's more like "imbedded". I wonder if the barrel is imbedded in that concrete all the way down that oak chair leg. An attempt to completely eliminate vibration all the way down the barrel and turn it into a tack-driver?

It would've been easier to buy a nail gun.
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Darth Ruger, I almost pooped my pants laughing so hard. IMBEDDED LOL:p
 
I saw an Enfield where the bubba had cut the dovetail for
a sporting rear sight INTO the bore: you could look down
the bore and see the base of the sight. Makes a little bedding
compund ooze look positively benign.
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Whoa. Did the builder (destroyer?) realize this was a problem? I can't imagine shooting something like that.
 
Wow, zee hose clamped German K98 (holdin'n it down on zee engineering tip, ja?) threw me over the edge...

I think I threw up in my mouth a little looking at those rifles.

Some people should not pick up hand tools. We would all be better off...
 
Maybe it was an experiment to see if a totally damped barrel/action would shoot better. Remember folks, it don't have to be pretty. A rifle is nothing but a bullet launcher. I guess I am a cranky old codger, but I would rather see a visual abomination that shoots, than a pretty gun that don't work. I have seen $1000 guns that were not worth the metal they were made from.
 
He actually did a better job of grinding off the ears than I did when i bubbaed a primo M-1917 at 15 years old. He even drilled and tapped holes on the top of the receiver, I used a side mount.
And my first job of restocking didnt look much better.

(Im so ashamed:uhoh: )

Picture this:
It's 1974, a young boy, a bench mounted grinder, a pristine M-1917, a copy of Williams "Converting Military Rifles", and Old Man Murphy looking on in horror as the receivers ears turn orange under the grinding wheel.:what:
 
mabee we need to take up a THR ugly rifle fund to buy it and save it if we all chip in we could out bid every one anad then raffle it off or something but we could save this peice of history
 
JB Weld gone wrong!
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That is exactly what the "bedding" is on that poor, poor gun. The only way to get it off would be a grinder. JB Weld is hard enough to tap threads into (yes I did do it just to see). A heat gun will not touch that stuff. Looks like a booby prize to me.

az
 
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