O.K. let me clarify. The rifle pictured has had some really nice work done on it; very well performed and it's very nice looking. What I meant by my statement was that you can doll up a Mosin all you want, and you still have the intrinsic design shortcomings...and I make this statement based on experience.
I went through Mosin phase and made a heck of a nice Scout rifle out of one, and an almost passable High Power rifle out of another. I figured out a way to easily and inexpensively make Mosin triggers adjustable, managed to effectively mount micrometer adjustable receiver sights on both of these rifles (and radically modified the bolt handles and receivers in doing so), mounted useful front sights, bedded, bead blasted, Parkerized, accurized and generally did everything I could think of to improve these rifles from a functional and accuracy standpoint. But after the dust and metal shavings had all settled, I realized that I had rifles that still had magazines hanging below the stock (single stack, no less), said magazines were still a pain to load with cases that have a gigantic oversized rim, and still have bolt handles that are way too far from the trigger and a split receiver among other things
