Aftermarket Bullpup kit $550 – Lefty Madrid

Horseshit Oldgoat! The last time I tried a DIY project, I fell off my motorcycle, and landed on top of my Husqvarna chain saw, yes…it was running at the time. (It’s an Arkansas thing….)

Some of us…no, MOST of us simply don’t have the hand eye coordination to pull off making a bullpup stock and hardware at home. If it was that easy everyone would be doing it. It would look llike crap after most of us finished, so we don’t do such things.

That’s the point….I don’t want a cobbled up, homemade bullpup Marauder. I want it to look professionally done.

You are an exception in skills, mechanical ability, and you still manage to get “good wood”, despite your age. You are the exception to the rest of us 99%.

Humbled and embarrassed…

Poor ‘Ol Uncle H 😯 😯 T

Hey guys, while I was waiting for my R2.5 25 cal long to come in, I ordered a 22 cal FX Royal. I ordered it with the intensions of making a bull pup out of it.

I don’t have a router, CNC or any of the fancy stuff. I did this by hand using a jig saw, drill press, files and a lot of sanding.

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IIRC; the air tube/scope rail mounts, made to my specs, cost me around $200 and the picaninny rail cost $50. The ½’ square alum bar stock is cheap. The forward trigger rod was bought from a model airplane site.

I went to Menards and bought a few ½ and ¼ Aspen sheets. I screwed them all together and then cut them out to the rough dimensions of the Matador’s stock. I then drilled ¼” holes thru the screwed together boards for ¼” wooden dowel rods.

I then unscrewed the boards and cut the middle ones to fit the action, fill plug, pressure gauge, trigger rail and the forward trigger. I had to do some sanding and shaping for the outer sheets to clear the bottle.

The Aspen sheets could be put back together, and the dowel rods inserted, to check for fit.

When I got the sheets shaped where they needed to be, I wood glued them together, drilled a few more screws into the whole mess and let the glue dry.

The gun shot very well, I was happy with it. It just needed final reshaping, the dowel and screw holes filled and a couple of coats of truck bed liner.

I never got around to finishing the project: the R2.5 25 long came in!

Guys, you don’t have to spend $500 on a kit that doesn’t fit until you modify it!

You can do it your self for cheaper and you get the satisfaction of shooting a gun that you have built!

WHOA GUYS….

Let’s take a look at what’s involved here….

CNC machinery is too expensive for even a medium sized business to own, so these guys have to rent time from machine shops that has one, takes small orders, and can handle both metal and wood. That is not cheap in any way.

They have to get someone to draw up the program to cut the Marauder stock and metal parts…that’s not free, programmers have to eat too!

They have to buy the raw materials to start with and schedule all the third parties to complete the labor. This includes wood final finishing, painting, metal anodizing, and individual assembly and packaging of each kit.

Since this is a small two man company, they are probably going to have to do a lot of this work themselves. That takes time and neither of these guys are independently wealthy, so in addition, they have to work for a living just like the rest of us mutts.

Three to five months would have to be based on a wild guess on initial number of orders, availability of machine shop equipment time. Few CNC owners are going to drop everything to satisfy a small startup business demands.

So, what does this $550 get you? A PRECISION CNC cut bullpup kit, with a very good trigger, that is an actual drop in for your Marauder.

Think now…..just think, if Crosman had come out with a mass produced bullpup Marauder, in three calibers, for under a thousand dollars, would you be interested? You know you would be because there are no alternatives on the market at that price!

Right now the only bullpup rifles are in the $2000 price range. Two companies offer “kits” for them and they are in Asia and Europe. Their cost is the same as the Leftymadrid.com kit, but they are not drop in fit. I spoke to a member who bought one and had to dremel it to get his Marauder to drop in. In addition, the linkage was cheap and not smooth.

Is $550 too much for a CNC machined stock and hardware, with a high quality trigger and linkage for a Marauder? It is no more than anyone else is asking, and it is made right here in the U.S.

Give these guys a friggin’ break! They have the balls to take a huge financial risk to give the airgun community what we have been clammering for for the past couple of years…a quality bullpup kit.

Personally, I don’t want a “cheap” bullpup kit, or assembled rifle, if it’s cobbled up from spare parts, cheap materials, and uses a cheap airgun in it’s design.

The Marauder has the opportunity to really shine here. It’s accurate, multi-shot, reliable, accepts many modifications, and comes in any caliber most of us can shoot, at a price most of us can afford.

So, let’s give these guys a reasonable chance to show us what they can do for the price being asked. $550 is cheap if the kit is high quality.

A $1000 total cost for a Marauder .25 bullpup? Crosman should bite themsleves in the butt for not thinking of this first.

H 😯 😯 T

I contacted Pekador months ago and was told to wait. I waited for months and never got a response. I glad I didn’t. I spoke to a friend who actually got one and he had to dremel the dang thing to get it to fit right.

$550 is a good deal IF the product fits and works like it should. It beats buying from Poland and Indonesia for the same price and having no idea of what you will receive, or when.

I’ll wait for U.S. produced goods. I’ve got one on order and I’ll post results when it arrives.

Kindest regards,

Uncle H 😯 😯 T

Three to five months out on delivery. 😥