My previous screed makes it seem like you can't make a good sporter from a mil-surp.
The fact is you can. People have been doing it to Mauser actions for close to a century now.
Mauser actions.
The barrels are normally replaced, often the caliber is changed at this point too.
If the stock is retained, it's heavily modified.
The action is often bedded to the new stock.
The scope mounts are drilled into the receiver and irons are often discarded.
In short, not much original rifle left.
Plus, in today's gun market where there isn't a mountain of old Mausers to shop from, there's just not much sense in it. Modding an old Mauser to be a good sporter is literally making a custom rifle and the people who do that have figured out they can charge a lot more than a production Remington 700 or Winchester 64 for it.
In some ways it's good. It takes the pressure off "wrecking" historical examples.
In other ways it's bad. I've seen some of these guns for sale on Gunbroker and there was some real art working them back in the '50's and '60's. Art that nearly dried up and blew away as the supply of actions dwindled to nothing.
Art that hasn't revived with the new supply of surplus Mosin-Nagant.
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