Bubba'ing milsurps - My head is spinning

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I just purchased a couple of nice M96 rifles from a fellow CGNer. I checked out a few other sites (American) to see what the scuttle is on these particular ones. My good heavens! I had to quit reading the posts that detailed butchering these poor old rifles!

I know all the business about, "It's my rifle and I can do what I want with it". I know I should mind my own business. However, I can't help but feel sick about it. Just a little rant. I'm okay now......
 
Funny I just spent the night in my gun room taking apart my new 71/84 Mauser that someone hacked up. It's a shame as the gun is 100% matching right down to the screws! Then after I played with a Ross MkIII that's on loan that someone cut down and then if that wasn't bad enough they cut the top of the nosecap off to I guess lighten the rifle!

Oh the horror!!:)
 
I have been right through the Tapco catalog from one end to the other and I can't find an M-4 lookalike stock that will fit this old Armaguerra 39.

Anyone know where I can get one?

And a weld-on muzzle-brake, too, the real mean AK-74 type?
 
I don't find it that sad, not really. I think of it more like an old car from the 30's or 40's getting a new life as a hot rod or a dune buggy or some such.

Remember, for every milsurp that is converted to a modern sporter, the value of YOUR all-original version goes up a tiny bit (well, theoretically).

Most folks that add a new stock keep the old one...it could be argued that if/when it is returned, it will have less wear and tear.

Each to their own, says I.
 
While it is nice to look at some scarce pieces of a particular model i don't get to excited over a well done conversion. Many thousands of military rifles where converted by large factorys to sell for civilian use.
 
dead meat said:
While it is nice to look at some scarce pieces of a particular model i don't get to excited over a well done conversion. Many thousands of military rifles where converted by large factorys to sell for civilian use.
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Absolutely. The heyday of sportering military rifles really began following WW2 and continued up til the 70's. These rifles were dirt cheap and factory rifles were not. Often the only way some guys could afford to go hunting and I have seen some beautiful sporters created from military rifles. Although all those light mauser sporters made up from small ring G33/40 Czech made rifles is a little depressing.
 
To me it's not about the rifles converted long ago (well sort of). It's guys now, who continue to bubba good surplus rifles...
 
Get over it? How about: Restore yours, and stop giving a #### what other people do with their own property? These are not one offs, be as proud as you want for having some restored, car or gun, and stop giving a #### about what other people do with their own belongings?

If guns that old were just as good as the day they came off the line (Same as cars) People would just RESTORE them , not customize them , and these relics would still be in service. I inherited a .303, was I disappointed the previous owner ditched the stock for a sporterized one? Yeah a little, cuz now its mine, but the bottom line is, it was his: He had the choice to do whatever he wanted with it , so I can STFU and eat lemons.

Rant over.
 
thank you Bubba , now I have a hobby ,restoring Mauser rifles . NOT ….some stuff you have done will never be fore given . cutting of military stocks to install cheap recoil pads come to mind.
 
baD mR fRosTy said:
I don't find it that sad, not really. I think of it more like an old car from the 30's or 40's getting a new life as a hot rod or a dune buggy or some such.
Each to their own, says I.
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I look at more like turning the Haida into a fishing boat, Ghettysburg into a waterpark & Aushwitz into a luxury hotel. After all, it their property and they can do what they want with it. Blood stains be damned, all this run down old crap needs a modern update!
 
lol!
For folks preserving the notion of valiant troops, this sure reads as one big whine. It's just one more of many similar posts. People do what they want with their stuff, get used to it!

With all respect, it is a milsurp forum and people asking about attaching a laser, or flashlight to an heirloom shouldn't inquire about it here without some sort of flameproofing. Fair enough. How many threads in this forum are purely judgmental? Oh No! Somebody did something I don't approve of to something I didn't own...suck it up soldiers. War is hell.
 
It might read as a whine but it more like a lament about the deluded mindlessly destroying everything so nobody can enjoy it just to say "Look what I done! Ain't it purty? Still don't shoot for crap though".
 
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