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No More Guns & Ammo Magazine For Me
nunn
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Some yahoo that writes for "Guns & Ammo" magazine took a pristine Swedish Mauser sniper rifle, sporterized it, and wrote an article about it for the magazine, complete with pictures.
The gunsmith doing the work did a nice job, but he destroyed a valuable historical military relic. He kept the BOLT as it was because it was numbered to the gun, necessitating the installation of very tall scope rings.
He even re-barreled the rifle, so the only original parts kept were the action, bolt assembly, and magazine assembly.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! If you were going to do that much work to make a "sporter," you could have started with a rifle that Bubba had already gotten hold of.
I had gone without a subscription to a slick-paper gun rag for a long time, but G&A offered a heck of a deal, so I subscribed. I found it to still be a typical slick-paper advertisement for Ruger and Remington.
My subscription is expiring, and I am not going to renew.
The gunsmith doing the work did a nice job, but he destroyed a valuable historical military relic. He kept the BOLT as it was because it was numbered to the gun, necessitating the installation of very tall scope rings.
He even re-barreled the rifle, so the only original parts kept were the action, bolt assembly, and magazine assembly.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! If you were going to do that much work to make a "sporter," you could have started with a rifle that Bubba had already gotten hold of.
I had gone without a subscription to a slick-paper gun rag for a long time, but G&A offered a heck of a deal, so I subscribed. I found it to still be a typical slick-paper advertisement for Ruger and Remington.
My subscription is expiring, and I am not going to renew.
Comments
You've become pretty Grumpy since you're retired.[:D]
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
But what do I know? I only have an old WW2 Mauser sniper rifle sitting in a rack two feet to my left, that would probably be worth thousands of dollars right now, and more than a Swede sniper, were the original scope, mount, etc. not junked years ago, and replaced with Weaver rings, bases, a steel-tube K3, and rechambered to 8mm-06. Looks great to me, even with plug screws filling the original holes in the left side of the receiver.
To each his own, I guess, but even now with fewer rifles like that Swede available, I can still appreciate what it is now just as much as what it used to be.
Take a $2500 Swede M41B sniper rifle, and make it into a $250 rifle, by investing $500 in parts and labor. The gene pool needs more chlorine.
It seems Win 70s and Rem 721/2s were high priced back then and behind the impetus to build your own.
Either way, the reverse is true today. I know many a dealer who will not touch any sporters or they will lowball the wanabee seller to the point they walk away pissed.
I too do not care to see pieces of history removed of their original condition. So many were sporterized and bubba'd, those in original condition are worth much more.
Their website is OK, but there's something about having that archived info at hand...