Sporterizing; NO return on investment

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I find it funny that some guys who do expensive sporterizing on common or (heaven forbid) rare guns get frustrated because they can’t break even on the time and crap they clipped onto it. Since getting into gun collection at a young age, I have seen many an excited face suddenly deflate on seeing the “custom recoil pad” where a steel butt plate SHOULD be. This has been a common theme with more or less the same results. The up side is my 1903 Greek Mannlicher in original is worth more than the custom jeweled bubbad, cut down, sorry attempt at a spoonbill bolt hand, that filled the money pit; NEVER to be seen again. Enjoy them but preserve your investment. A hard to find Persian mauser with two holes taped through the crest is now only worth the value of the scope; maybe. Just leave them alone guys!
 
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This goes for guns of all types... A stippled frame Glock is NOT worth more than a fresh factory one.

I feel your pain my friend
 
I don't really care if who ever sporterizes get there investment back. You are destroying a peice of history. They aren't making any more enfield's or selling warehouses full of them. The mosins and Russian captures won't be around forever either. Think when your showing your granddaughter a milsurp. Do you want to show her a molested milsurp in a ugly stock or a original gun that will look the same as what she will see in history book?
 
And yet I've had a serious offer of $750 at the range for an Archangel stocked Mosin 91/30.

Gun people are weird eh
 
Macs675 said:
And yet I've had a serious offer of $750 at the range for an Archangel stocked Mosin 91/30.

Gun people are weird eh
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Ten minutes at any gun auction you might care to mention proves that beyond any and all forms of doubt...

I'm still not sure if it's sad, hilarious, or both.
 
Macs675 said:
And yet I've had a serious offer of $750 at the range for an Archangel stocked Mosin 91/30.

Gun people are weird eh
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As much as I'm opposed to sporterising... I sincerely hope you liberated that fool from the money he so obviously didn't deserve to have.
 
Me and my brothers Sporterized 8 original lee enfield rifles in the early eighties, they were some of the old mans stock he bought in the late sixties, he paid 50 bucks for 10 of them and did not care what we did to them. Being 14 years old I was the oldest and did the best job, not to pretty, still got mine laugh every time I look at it, good times
 
Grock-co said:
Me and my brothers Sporterized 8 original lee enfield rifles in the early eighties, they were some of the old mans stock he bought in the late sixties, he paid 50 bucks for 10 of them and did not care what we did to them. Being 14 years old I was the oldest and did the best job, not to pretty, still got mine laugh every time I look at it, good times
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You S.O.B.
 
what I find mildly amusing , someone will take a inexpensive rifle like a stevens or a axis , put a coat of "krylon" paint on it , shoot it until the paint is chipped off and it looks like hell , the barrel is cooked and the boltface is marked up and gas cut from blown primers and still expect 20% over full retail .
 
I rather like the sportered enfields and mausers.
The beauty of these rifles is they were engineered and built to be strong.
For example You couldn't beat a man to death or break a door down with savage axis without breaking something.
You just can't beat forged milled steel and walnut guns
 
Pine said:
I rather like the sportered enfields and mausers.
The beauty of these rifles is they were engineered and built to be strong.
For example You couldn't beat a man to death or break a door down with savage axis without breaking something.
You just can't beat forged milled steel and walnut guns
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"You couldn't beat a man to death or break a door down with savage axis" I guess sporterizing real dose make them more usefully for practical everyday situations. The only problem is that you can’t stab the guy because you cut the bayonet lug off?
 
Suka said:
Just do me a favor and leave win. 94's alone. They don't need any, "accessorizing", and they have exactly the number of holes drilled in them they're supposed to have before you got it.
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Winchester 94's aren't very historically significant , the only noteworthy use of one was when Western hero Tom Horn used one to defend himself against marauding sheep herders in Wyoming .
 
Bastardizing a rifle that doesn't use cheap surplus ammo is dumb. They all end up looking like a common hunting rifle. Save the time and effort and buy a stock hunting rifle.

As for value, nothing is worth retail after its been sold. Used guns are USED and worth less than retail.

Tdc
 
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