haretrigger
CGN Regular
- Location
- Lower Mainland, BC
I realize anyone can do what ever they see fit with their personal property, but why would you choose an antique that has made it's way through WW2 to this very day as your canvas to start out on? Why not start with something like a Ruger 10/22 and work your way up to a Ruger Mini 14/30, or a Remington 7615, heck even a Chicom M14 as suggested, or something along those lines? If you screw up in your attempt to improve what many engineers were educated and paid to do, you can just buy another one tommorow. Nobody will call you bubba for that!
Go ahead, chop, paint, drill, tap, cut, weld, glue, duct tape away - whatever you like to your milsurp; it's yours. You only further increase the value of the milsurps that I've left untouched for future generations (hopefully my own). You can't take 'em with you so by all means have fun with them, shoot them, clean them and take care of them. Let someone else have that chance in the future.
You can call me a fudd all you like, but your missing the point of what milsurp rifles are all about. Nostalgia. Not because we yearn for the past, but because we choose to remember those who lived and died in it, and the hands that it took to create the rifle your holding.
That's my two pennies. Make sure you shake your spray can frequently while your spraying!
Go ahead, chop, paint, drill, tap, cut, weld, glue, duct tape away - whatever you like to your milsurp; it's yours. You only further increase the value of the milsurps that I've left untouched for future generations (hopefully my own). You can't take 'em with you so by all means have fun with them, shoot them, clean them and take care of them. Let someone else have that chance in the future.
You can call me a fudd all you like, but your missing the point of what milsurp rifles are all about. Nostalgia. Not because we yearn for the past, but because we choose to remember those who lived and died in it, and the hands that it took to create the rifle your holding.
That's my two pennies. Make sure you shake your spray can frequently while your spraying!
