how do you shoot this?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=45619897

it might have been made for someone with a handicap.

Looks like a pathetic attempt to repair a broken pistol grip... except the foreend tip matches.
What's even more pathetic is that I've been sitting here for the last five minutes thinking of how you could get a good grip on it to pull the trigger.

Did I read that right? He polished the bluing off the action to make it "look" stainless? I might have gone a different way.

Modified military?

Looks like the underside of a male dog.

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Originally posted by Charles_Helm:
Did I read that right? He polished the bluing off the action to make it "look" stainless? I might have gone a different way.

Nothing a little BBQ paint won't fix!

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Originally posted by ElCaballero:
Nothing a little BBQ paint won't fix!

Good way to ensure resistance to high temperatures too.

It may not have been made for the handicapped but instead to create some.

Just a guess, but it may be for someone missing the thumb on their right hand. Possibly a finger or two as well.

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Originally posted by GSP7:
how do you shoot this?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=45619897

Set it up on a stump and blaze away at it with an SKS. That's how I'd shoot it.

ZM

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Originally posted by Zeke:

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Originally posted by GSP7:
how do you shoot this?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=45619897

Set it up on a stump and blaze away at it with an SKS. That's how I'd shoot it.

ZM

At least pull the action out of the stock first.
Its a shame about the stock butchering, I like tiger maple.

Tiger maple my ass, look at the big pores in the closeup. Thats a military birch stock cobbed up with chunks of walnut in the grip and forend. The rear sling swivel is still in the original place.

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Originally posted by James C Scott:
Just a guess, but it may be for someone missing the thumb on their right hand. Possibly a finger or two as well.

I'm with you. It would maybe fit somone missing the thumb and index finger from their right hand.

I'm guessing the guy was a home/hobby gunsmith who worked on pistols before the big accident. Then he turned his attention to rifles.

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Originally posted by vapodog:
it might have been made for someone with a handicap.

Or “by†someone with a handicap!

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Originally posted by Lanny from NY:
Tiger maple my ass, look at the big pores in the closeup. Thats a military birch stock cobbed up with chunks of walnut in the grip and forend. The rear sling swivel is still in the original place.

Bingo.....I think we have a winner here.

I would hesitate to buy it even for a donor. He claims a stainless barrel but it looks blue to me, misleads as to the stock, and admits the scope has a cracked lens! ( That doesn't affect anything)

His starting bid is more than I'd gamble. Nate

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Originally posted by Lanny from NY:
Tiger maple my ass, look at the big pores in the closeup. Thats a military birch stock cobbed up with chunks of walnut in the grip and forend. The rear sling swivel is still in the original place.

You're right,
thats what I get for giving it a quick glance and going yuck! and then not looking more closely.

I get nervous anytime someone brags about the "pattern" their rifle shoots

Horrible. Just horrible.

That is up to a whole new level of ugly compared the the thread going around a few weeks back with the Weatherby stock with all sorts of crap cut/glued on it. Or the all stainless Mannlicher stocked bolt action 45-70. With a muzzle brake.

Kinda gives you that not so fresh feeling like when yer sitting on the can at a public place, and you run out of TP when yer halfway there. Ugh.