Not encourage Bubba!
Why? What Erin did to her Mosin was interesting!
Because I am sick of seeing Bubba rape kiv/27's. I am sick of seeing Remington and NEW receivers drilled and tapped. I am sick of seeing US marked M1915 stocks shortened and cut for Timney triggers.
I am sick of Bubba buying a Mosin from someone who doesn't know what they have and "it's just a Mosin".
Erin's is a bog standard Izhevsk 91/30 (high wall round). The most common maker in the most common pattern. We're not mad at Erin.
But did she know she was modifying the most common form of Mosin-Nagant when she started?
Most of time Bubba don't know enough to even check.
Willard bought a nice Long Branch No4 Mk1* yesterday and near it on the rack was something that used to be a No4... Not any more!
Bubba, again.
It's especially galling that in addition to being a design that doesn't lend itself to sporterizing, Enfields are in a caliber that's not particularly common here in the US.
Krags gave Bubba the idea that you could get a cheap sporting rifle from a really cheap surplus rifle.
Mausers gave Bubba the impression that milsurp was a natural route to a good sporting rifle. A Mauser is a great place to start, really. In a lot of ways, Remingtons and Winchesters are Mausers. But the sporter conversion of a milsurp Mauser was a special case. They're just about the only old mil gun made in the 20th century that readily lends itself to being so converted and having half a chance of being as good as a new-made gun.
But the days of it being cheaper to convert an old Mauser than buy a new-made gun are LONG gone.
The modifications advocated by War Gun Mods, when added up ($678 including the original gun), are more expensive than one of Savage's package deals (Model 10/110 XP Trophy hunter with accutrigger in .308; $620). Spending the money in small chunks over a longer period of time is a false economy even if it added up to a rifle as good as the Savage... but in the end you spend more and have less.
Far too often, Bubba makes changes he can't reverse. Regret comes 20 years later when the supply of old guns dries up and the crufflers start fighting over what's left. The Mosin that's $240 on Gunbroker now was $150 last year. It was $70 five years before that.
Already modded guns are listed on Gunbroker for less than $500, and there's no bidders. In Econ 101, we call that a market indicator.
Why? What Erin did to her Mosin was interesting!
Because I am sick of seeing Bubba rape kiv/27's. I am sick of seeing Remington and NEW receivers drilled and tapped. I am sick of seeing US marked M1915 stocks shortened and cut for Timney triggers.
I am sick of Bubba buying a Mosin from someone who doesn't know what they have and "it's just a Mosin".
Erin's is a bog standard Izhevsk 91/30 (high wall round). The most common maker in the most common pattern. We're not mad at Erin.
But did she know she was modifying the most common form of Mosin-Nagant when she started?
Most of time Bubba don't know enough to even check.
Willard bought a nice Long Branch No4 Mk1* yesterday and near it on the rack was something that used to be a No4... Not any more!
Bubba, again.
It's especially galling that in addition to being a design that doesn't lend itself to sporterizing, Enfields are in a caliber that's not particularly common here in the US.
Krags gave Bubba the idea that you could get a cheap sporting rifle from a really cheap surplus rifle.
Mausers gave Bubba the impression that milsurp was a natural route to a good sporting rifle. A Mauser is a great place to start, really. In a lot of ways, Remingtons and Winchesters are Mausers. But the sporter conversion of a milsurp Mauser was a special case. They're just about the only old mil gun made in the 20th century that readily lends itself to being so converted and having half a chance of being as good as a new-made gun.
But the days of it being cheaper to convert an old Mauser than buy a new-made gun are LONG gone.
The modifications advocated by War Gun Mods, when added up ($678 including the original gun), are more expensive than one of Savage's package deals (Model 10/110 XP Trophy hunter with accutrigger in .308; $620). Spending the money in small chunks over a longer period of time is a false economy even if it added up to a rifle as good as the Savage... but in the end you spend more and have less.
Far too often, Bubba makes changes he can't reverse. Regret comes 20 years later when the supply of old guns dries up and the crufflers start fighting over what's left. The Mosin that's $240 on Gunbroker now was $150 last year. It was $70 five years before that.
Already modded guns are listed on Gunbroker for less than $500, and there's no bidders. In Econ 101, we call that a market indicator.