Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters JOHN BUHMILLER'S 416 RIGBY - BREVEX MAUSER - MY LATEST FIND

Hello WyoCoyoteHunter,

Thanks for the reply. If you run across the articles on John, please let me know. I don't want to miss anything written by/about him.

Hello aamarv,

Thanks for the kind words. I still have my Bullpup, and the First Place medal I won in the 600yd match.

Probable John Buhmiller built rifle.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/748925753

Great find on that rifle. Thanks for the photos and the follow up details on the history.

I just missed a Mauser John built for Bob Bell.
Sitting at a auction house waiting for the fund to start selling after the reloading stuff.

Inthe back of the room they started selling the rifles. Missed it!!!

It was a 338 WM. Still pizzed.

Bob wrote a Gun Digest article about John a few years ago. Bob also has the list of big game John shot. All in the Big Five. 250 total if I remember right.

Hello ismith,

Thanks for the reply.

Not likely built by John. He sold lots and lots of barrels, but built very few rifles.
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Hello Bob_B257,

Thanks for the reply.

And thanks for the compliments.
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Hello 257 X 50.

Thanks for the reply.

That would have been a nice one.

Hello Buckstix: hope you're still hanging around.

I caught a story elsewhere about J.R. Buhmiller having proposed a BullPup design to the Army about 1949, as the Allied Powers were meeting in the U.S. to decide how the Allies would solve the problem of non-uniform conformity in the military rounds used - many cases of one ally needing to use another's supplies; Brits using French, etc.

Supposedly John provided a handful of BullPup samples to the Army for testing, believing that a short, mobile weapon would be useful in jeeps and trucks, but the Army wasn't ready for soldiers shooting out of moving vehicles...

But the Allies were aware of the tests, and several in northern Europe took note and went home to develop their own concepts - May have taken John's weapons with them... So what is/was your Bullpup?

About 5 years ago Duane Wiebe built me a 6.5CM on a Mauser Kurz action. At the time we were having a hard time getting a barrel, due to long wait times.. Duane made a few calls and found a 6.5 Buhmiller barrel - he was thrilled. I did a little research to see what all the excitement was about. Needless to say the rifle is a tack driver.

Congratulations on your 416 Rigby.

HS/

You have the best stuff!!!
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There are a couple of articles in Guns Magazine in the 50-60s he wrote.
I could dig them out.

Bell and Buhmiller wrote quite a bit.

In Gun Digest…….Bob Bell wrote Buhmiller’s Big Boomers I think it was