Sporterized Mausers= A Tragedy

[mkdhotrod]

Anyone else with me? Its the worst for such a nice set of weapons. I can't stand when a nice German K98 gets sporterized. Even the British Enfields

 

[GeauxLSU]

Useless without pics....

 

[freedom]

There's no excuse to do it now, but most of these were done when you could pick them up at the hardware store for $29.95. It's hard to blame grandpa for what he did to the cheapest most plentiful rifle he had access to in the fifties.

 

[mkdhotrod]

Useless without pics....

That is the exception

 

[mkdhotrod]

There's no excuse to do it now, but most of these were done when you could pick them up at the hardware store for $29.95. It's hard to blame grandpa for what he did to the cheapest most plentiful rifle he had access to in the fifties.

Yeah true that

 

[BHJ]

Gotta love em. They can be bought for a song and are designed to go thru hell and back. They make great rifles for beginning hunters and work out well as loaners or truck / farm guns. they are also great candidates for further tinkering, practicing home gunsmithing and learning how things work.

 

[johnwp]

I try to save the enfields when i see one that is priced right only as of late have i gotten into mausers

 

[NWSharpshooter]

I'm kinda partial to this bubba job.

 

[mkdhotrod]

I'm kinda partial to this bubba job.

That one looks okay, its only the "hunting" type looking ones that get me, with the barrel chopped at the front sight and gross.

 

[Delete]

Sorry, that is a beautiful gun either way in original or re-finished. Whoever worked on that one, knew what the hell they were doing. Was it bedded too?

Nowadays, I'd be willing to get a Mosin and play around with it but by getting a synthetic stock allowing me to keep the original as is. I would also be willing to do the same thing to a Swiss K31.