Real men shoot with iron sights. Leave the old war horses alone. Scoping or altering a milsurp makes me think of a teenager who gets a car and covers it in decals and a spoiler to look cool but he still can't drive worth s***.
you are building a sniper out of a milsurp
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You will fully understand the fallacy of that statement if/when you reach the time when are blowing 60+ candles out on your birthday cake.
sniper from Milsurp
Since I am somewhat more than slighly eccentric, I'd put a new heavy barrel on a Norwegian Krag. The Krag action has to be stiffer in the vertical plane than any other action, due to its two horizontal magazine walls.
Since I am somewhat more than slighly eccentric, I'd put a new heavy barrel on a Norwegian Krag. The Krag action has to be stiffer in the vertical plane than any other action, due to its two horizontal magazine walls.
I know. My day will come, but until then I will improve my marksmanship with iron sights, then move on to scopes when my eyes tell me to. Or when I am confident enough to "supplement" my shooting skills with a scope, not rely upon one.
Unless I missread the question he's just asking which mill surp we'd use...not about cost. So that being said I think either a Springfield 1903 in 30.06 or the Mauser 1908 in 30.06 or 7x57. If you put one of the old long tube scopes on either of these bad boys you have a good shooter that looks cool!!
regards, Hitch
