Comments by "Baneofbanes" (@baneofbanes) on "Not Always Bubba: A Factory Sporter Winchester-Lee Navy Rifle" video.

  1. God I hope that mentality never comes back. Idiotic to think that the looks of the rifle affect it to that large of a degree.
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  2. chris silsby Yah it’s a Lee, not an enfield.
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  3. What? What does that have to do with anything?
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  4. “It’s a good way to reuse a weapon of war for entertainment and art” Cutting a rifle up doesn’t change the fact that it is still a rifle. And plenty of people find stock military weapons entertaining and beautiful themselves. And if anyone should keep their opinion to themselves, it should be you following your own principles.
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  5. It’s a somewhat common nickname among lower class Southerners in the US, especially back in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Here it’s used to refer to home gun smiths that hacked up rifles.
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  6. oldesertguy in most cases weapons used wooden stocks because wood was the only material available. We have better materials now. And beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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  7. Good. Mosins are getting expensive and people who sporterized them seem to think that their hack job makes the rifles more valuable.
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  8. 1: Sporting rifles tend to be in calibers that militaries don’t sue any more 2: Most prices I’ve seen for sporter rifles are simply too high, and people would be better for getting a new production budget hunting rifle for the money. Unless they’re going for $100-$200 most sporterized rifles, with a few exceptions such as factory models or some extremely well built ones, are frankly almost useless to the consumer.
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  9. Well if you tear down an old barn you might get a big enough American chestnut board to make a modern stock out of.
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  10. That’s not aesthetic, that’s materials. And most hunting rifles with polymer stocks are meant to be utilitarian before anything else.
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  11. Weight and looks.
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  12. Richard Elliott I mean within the gun community.
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  13. This generations bubba are the guys who saw down Mosins and spray paint them black then wonder why nobody will buy them off them.
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  14. Not an Enfield.
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  15. Can’t really mount a modern scope on it easily. Anyway plenty of straight pull rifles out there.
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  16. Xtorin O'hern Sound spike you have an overly simplistic view of the industry.
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  17. I’d agree if it wasn’t for the fact everyone I run into selling sporterized rifles want as much as mint condition ones go for.
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  18. Lighter, handier, many people preferred the look.
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  19. Plenty of bolt action rifles on the market that aren’t Mauser designs. Just gotta be willing to spend money.
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  20. End of the day it was still a hotel action rifle. And few to none are better than the Kaiser design, which the military went with in the 1903. I say they did fine.
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  21. I’m just not a big fan of how hunting rifles look at all.
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  22. Just look up Navy Lee rifle.
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  23. What’s that gotta do with the video? Or with guns in general?
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  24. Wesley Gay It’s not just low budget hunting rifles that have polymer stocks. Fact of the matter is that polymer has many advantages over wood, such as water and rot resistance, doesn’t swell with humidity, and it’s lighter than wood.
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  25. I mean its a dumb decision in the modern day to sporterized a surplus rifle. Budget hunting rifles are often cheaper than even the cheapest surplus rifles, and are going to be more accurate, chambered for commonly available cartridges, and many already come with the features and accessories that bubba’s try to put on to their butchered rifles. Also bubbas often seem to think that cutting their gun up makes it more valuable.
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