M96/38 Scout REVISED

boss351cleveland said:
Well he should have sold that rifle before he chopped it for about $350 to $400 then bought a already Bubba sporter for $150 off the EE and spent the difference on hunting equipment or ammo. Look at all the thousands of Lee Enfields that were sportered in Canada . A non molested example brings $500+ , they used to be dirt cheap even more so than Mosins .
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"Should have"...wow. Based on your post, looks like your line of thought is purely geared towards money. That's unfortunate.
 
The way how I look at it (and many of us do) is that you ruined that rifle. Yes people like projects but if your looking for a project why not just get a pre-sporterized model and work on that, instead of cutting down a non-sporterized model that was complete in form and function.
 
As far as "a more tasteful way of sporterizing" those pictures will be coming up when she's completed. No worries here with this one, acquired it as a bag of reworked 30 year old parts.




 
Of course it's yours to do whatever you want with, but if you're soliciting feedback mine would be that the M96/38 is so short and handy already it makes no sense to lose the backup ironsights, quite apart from the ethics of chopping up an original rifle when there are plenty of bubbas out there we can modify and "improve".

Get a Tradex sporter tapped for the side mount, buy a repro Swedish "sniper" mount and you've got the best of all worlds: iron sights, scope and quick-detach feature.

A stock in a classic form would look much better IMHO. Tradex has some sporter stocks and so do companies like Boyds. A laminate would be practical.

Have fun. ;)
 
EL34/6L6 said:
Cliche comments aside, this rifle will get SHOT! As it should.
Not just fondled at home or stowed away and part of some hoarders obsessive acquisition infliction.
Spend time with your son, the rifle will be glad being used and out there in the field. Enjoy the time you have. Afterall, you can't take 'em with you.:cool:
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Around here anyway we have regular milshoot competitions.... These old guns get shot often here anyway.
 
You might get different/more positive comments if you post in the "Hunting rifle" forum.

Here in the Milsurp forum, you can't expect too many compliments for your "work".
 
Abomination, $4.00 rifle, burn it, chop job looks horrible, downgraded, hacked to death, ruined that rifle! A tad biased but I see the point, seems like a lot of overreaction without knowing the details of the original rifle, assumptions and insults seem to be an ever increasing form of communication these days.
 
selig said:
Abomination, $4.00 rifle, burn it, chop job looks horrible, downgraded, hacked to death, ruined that rifle! A tad biased but I see the point, seems like a lot of overreaction without knowing the details of the original rifle, assumptions and insults seem to be an ever increasing form of communication these days.
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No one expects the Milsurp Inquisition!
 
I'm torn between grabbing a pitchfork and torch to chase you down with, and admiring the neat little carbine your created. I've often thought something like that would be fun, but i can't bring myself to harm an complete original rifle. Someday i'll find a sportered one and then i'll build up something pretty much identical. From the workmanship end, it looks like you did a really great job, and i wish i was your son LOL, bet it gets shot a pile. Still, from the collector end, i have to wipe a tear away....hope she was rough before you modified her. So i'll pat you on the back with one hand, and flip you the bird with the other....does that even out? :) Tell your son he's a lucky duck!
 
All in all I do take all the comments with a grain of salt, I'm sure we could all sit down with a few beers and have a good time ( even though I'm an infidel ). We will enjoy our rifle and I intend to keep it till I pass it over to my sons. I shall do my part to point anyone to only reconfiguring sullied versions and not disfigure original rifles. Peace and goodwill.
 
EL34/6L6 said:
Yay! A milsurp that will actually see the light of day and be shot more than once in the next decade!
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This just in.......there's MANY of us that shoot our guns!! I find it's tactical joes around here that sit in the basement and look at their rifles while I'm out actually shooting mine.

OP, I'm not going to get upset over your choice to chop your rifle. See it too often on here that I'm almost getting immune to it.
 
Tinman204 said:
This just in.......there's MANY of us that shoot our guns!! I find it's tactical joes around here that sit in the basement and look at their rifles while I'm out actually shooting mine.

OP, I'm not going to get upset over your choice to chop your rifle. See it too often on here that I'm almost getting immune to it.
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Just got back from a Milshoot with over 30 participants and about 50 guns in attendance. I shoot all of my milsurps.

I have a couple of tips to avoid future offence:

- if you ask for opinions anywhere, anytime, be prepared for opinions from people who don't love it; and
- it's your property and you're free to do with it what pleases you, and no-one really cares if it becomes ruined, but if you post pics of a sporterized milsurp in the "Milsurp" Section at CGN, don't be astonished when people react like they did. Even over at "Hunting" or "Gunsmithing" it would have provoked negative reactions IMO.

What's important is that you like it.
 
sorta reminds me of the globco svt40's for some reason

this post should be moved outa the milsurp forum... mabbe to "off topics" .. where it can be appreciated for what it is
 
It was a service rifle. A working rifle. It's end user has, in his eyes, improved it to WORK better for him. I can understand wanting to leave it alone to preserve it, but in the end it is still doing what it was built to do.

Oh. And to add more fuel to the fire. Sportered Lee-Enfields are just as much a part of Canadian history as they are in original form.

Shots fired.
 
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