Well you guys keep finding all of these SPECIAL custom big bore rifles. This one looks perfect and I bet would handle like a dream. Or is that a nightmare?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=34009980

OMG! And only a $3100 starting bid...

The barreled action might be worth buying for around $500 or $600. Stock and scope have little place on a rifle I would use.

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Originally posted by Wink:
The barreled action might be worth buying for around $500 or $600. Stock and scope have little place on a rifle I would use.

But you have to discount the barreled action's price because you need new bottom metal, the engraving is disgusting! Is that supposed to be Tony the Tiger?

That ummm "Lion" seems to have a somewhat pained expression.
I can definately relate!!

I'm pretty sure that is one I posted a while back. JudgeG had the following priceless comment:

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Originally posted by JudgeG:
The "animal" head on the floor plate looks like a cross between a house cat and a 'possom crapping peach pits.

Nice to see the price hasn't gone down.

LION???? All morning I was trying to make it into a bear. LOL I think the "possum crapping" comment fits pretty well.

After looking more closely at the cat-like figure, which I assume is on the floorplate, it looks like it may be a medaillon which is soldered on. In fact, the engraving surrounding it doesn't look to me like it was done by the same artist (sic). You might be able to pry it off and replace it with something more pleasing.

I will email the seller with an offer of $125.

500grains, $125 seems like a lot of money for cat-like medallion.

Oh I don't know...

Put a BOSS system on it and some look through scope mounts and it'd be a fine shooting iron. Right up there with a Weatherby DGR..

Not like he's the first guy to drop a big ugly stock on an Enfield and charge an exorbitant price for it, if you know what I mean.

Did you notice that the rifle is located in Venice, CA?

That goes a long way towards explaining the appearance.

jim

I usually have to go to The Political Forum to get this good of a laugh.

Yech!!

that has been for sale there for about a year on and off. That says it all

My email message to the seller reads as follows:

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Hi,

Would you consider an offer of $125 for that Enfield .375 with a junker stock/scope? Please let me know. Thanks.

I'll let you guys know if there is a response.

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Originally posted by 500grains:
My email message to the seller reads as follows:

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Hi,

Would you consider an offer of $125 for that Enfield .375 with a junker stock/scope? Please let me know. Thanks.

I'll let you guys know if there is a response.

Don't hold back -- tell him what you really think.

You gentlemen clearly have no appreciation for fine workmanship or purpose-built firearms.

That animal is a galactically-nomadic, giant-fanged, sand possum, and the rifle was designed for use by extra-terrestrial, short-necked, alien big game hunters with long arms and crooked thumbs.

Unfortunately, when the aliens visited the earthling gunsmith who built this rifle to their order, they were so outraged by the ridiculously high price that they took him up in their space ship, gave him an anal probe, had sexual intercourse with him, and dropped him off on Neptune.

Now, having learned nothing from her husband's misfortune, the gunsmith's widow is trying offering the rifle at the same ridiculous price to the gun-buying public.

wonder that the guys selling those guns think about the comments made here

Nice touch how the ground off all the sharp corners on the metal and applied the Licorce finish...

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Nice touch how the ground off all the sharp corners on the metal and applied the Licorce finish...

Ah yes, grind off the sharp corners so it doesn't snag when you quick draw it. Why didn't I think of that?

Yea but did you gentlemen see his 50cal ofering

This actually pisses me off. this asshole might get away with ripping off some uninformed person who just recognizes the cartridge but knows nothing about rifles.

The 500 is by far the bigger travesty of "gunsmithing". the metal work is obviously abysmal. This guy wants 3100 bucks for a gun that has flaws in the metal and wood work. glaring flaws. It looks like he didn't even use a matched set of punches for numbering the thing. Anybody ever heard of this gunshop?

If this guy has a shred of honor if he were contacted and told what he has, because I am sure he must be ignorant of guns, he would stop trying to push these off on people.

you guys are too nice, I say this is just sick s*&t.

Red

Aha, I suspect he was trained in gunsmithing by Mr. A Square himself, but he has surpassed his mentor, you gotta admit that!!

T J Custom Guns? Tijuana? Total Joke? The engraving reminds me of the belt buckles the guys in Olongopo made. Neat on a belt buckle, looks like crap on a floor plate.

Good grief

I normally hate to be negative but that has to be the least practical and ugliest 375 that I have ever seen. Needs to go into a museum to demonstrate how not to build a DGR!

465H&H

My dog Jack, looked a bit like, what ever that is on the floor plate, when he recieved a well placed boot up his rear end, after chasing our prize Boer goat.

Degrees of ugly...this one is sverely ugly.

His target audience is probably those same guys that buy those weird "bowie" knives with Pakistan stamped on the blade and throwing stars at truck stops. I cannot believe some people would buy this trash for any money at all. Maybe it is drug-induced.