I like the turned down bolt on the M48,
Yeah, I wish that my 24/47 had a turned down bolt. My gun vaults are full of straight bolts and they take up twice as much room!
I like the turned down bolt on the M48,
On the other hand, that $1500 dollar "sniper" Mosin Nagant was ridiculous. And as for the $250 accessory kit for it that I can get free from buying a $70 Mosin at J&G Sales............, I'm speechless.
I think part of the fun is doing the restoring yourself if you're looking for a nice, cleaned up rifle like a Mitchell's. It makes a nice little weekend project. I like to save stuff like that for rainy weekends when there's not much to do outside. It's really not difficult at all.
I think part of the fun is doing the restoring yourself if you're looking for a nice, cleaned up rifle like a Mitchell's. It makes a nice little weekend project. I like to save stuff like that for rainy weekends when there's not much to do outside. It's really not difficult at all. If you're willing to pay that kind of money for a rifle that has already been cleaned up, just buy an old one and send it to me along with the money you saved. I'll be happy to restore the old gun!
Amen to that! I love sitting evenings at our kitchen table (with my wife and daughter not far away watching TV) cleaning up an old rifle. In some ways that is the very best part, finding the diamond in the rough. It lets you bring the gun back, to a degree, restoring some of its luster, but better yet preserving it. It also gives you a chance to really get to know the rifle even if your activites are just a field strip and not a detail strip. It also allows you to decide for yourself how much evidence of previous use will remain. Such projects are not at all difficult and bring great satisfaction.
If you get into milsurps you might find, like so many of us have, that those marks showing use, scratches, dents and dings, are priceless, standing as testaments to the men who may have desperately depended on the weapon during desperate hours of their lives, some that ended abruptly. To me something like a Mitchell's Mauser seems scrubbed and antisceptic, devoid of the character and history that many of us value. Sure, as a shooter the gun will be fine, but there are many other rifles that will do as well. Mitchell's goes far to sell you that history, and oddly enough that is the only thing that they really don't provide.