Head, you claimed to have chopped it up making no mention of already being chopped. That is different. We purists, used as a curse by those who chop up rifles, say you should go to the pawn shop and look for those rifles if you want to customize as they have already been scarred. Thanks for doing just that.
Yet it already demonstrates the problem. Look at that. A rifle with a very small production number and extensive World War II history, a valuable rifle and it was drilled, tapped, and discarded cheap. You got it for fifty bucks. That is what we PURISTS as you label us bemoan. As I stated before, "But, my observations of Bubba remain - a wanton sporterizer who then leaves his results to collect dust at the local pawn shop." That's what you got, isn't it?
I wonder, though, why the greatest bile seems to spew from the mouths of choppers? What about the idiot who went bonkers on a chopped Mosin with a reblue job and aftermarket stock? Fool and his money, right? Oh, wait, you withhold your contempt for these kinds of guys who would pay $700 for a rifle (got a link to that post, do you?) that they could not easily sell (Mitchell's sells quite a few Yugo Mausers that way, by the way, to deep pocket folks who want something all original but want it to be pretty). Those are smart, intelligent people, naturally, and thank all that is good in the world that they have deep pockets. A man who is interested in Finnish history (or the fact that the rifle you finished chopping up was built on a receiver captured by the Austrians during WWII) is just bonkers...or an idiot.
