Playing on crossing the Rubicon. Look it up!
One thing I am happy to see about modern bubbafication is most of the stuff for sale now doesn't require a permanent change to the donor gun.
Hurray! People have finally realized the future value of their, now, cheap milsurps!
No.
What happened is we lost a shit-ton of gunsmiths. Without them out there doing sporter jobs, there's no examples to lead Bubba to cross the Bubbacon. Thank the Gods!
This is kind of a win for everyone.
Tinkerers get to tinker.
People with limited funds get to trick themselves into thinking they're saving money.
The guns aren't modified in such a way as to not go back.
In the loss column is that there aren't gunsmiths at every shop anymore. I dimly recall when you pretty much had to have a smith on staff to stay open. Now... gun shops are just retailers.
Not that most newer guns need a smith... Standards have changed over the years and it's expected that someone with basic mechanical aptitude and screwdrivers will be able to mount a scope. I still see guns on Gunbroker from the days where receivers weren't drilled from the factory and every ring maker made a different ring for every model of rifle and used a proprietary hole pattern.
One thing I am happy to see about modern bubbafication is most of the stuff for sale now doesn't require a permanent change to the donor gun.
Hurray! People have finally realized the future value of their, now, cheap milsurps!
No.
What happened is we lost a shit-ton of gunsmiths. Without them out there doing sporter jobs, there's no examples to lead Bubba to cross the Bubbacon. Thank the Gods!
This is kind of a win for everyone.
Tinkerers get to tinker.
People with limited funds get to trick themselves into thinking they're saving money.
The guns aren't modified in such a way as to not go back.
In the loss column is that there aren't gunsmiths at every shop anymore. I dimly recall when you pretty much had to have a smith on staff to stay open. Now... gun shops are just retailers.
Not that most newer guns need a smith... Standards have changed over the years and it's expected that someone with basic mechanical aptitude and screwdrivers will be able to mount a scope. I still see guns on Gunbroker from the days where receivers weren't drilled from the factory and every ring maker made a different ring for every model of rifle and used a proprietary hole pattern.