I have never told anyone to make them into wall hangers. I simply advise you to TAKE THE TIME and OPEN YOUR MIND. Learn about them. Learn how to use them on their terms. Understand why they are made as they are. Then you will appreciate them more and come to respect the men who carried them, often to their doom.
IMO, this is a really important point. I say this from the point of view of an amatuer student of history. I say this as the owner of a Fazakerly No.4Mk2 Enfield w/ micrometer sight, a 1943 JP Saur K98k, and a 1940 VZ-24. These rifles all shoot differently. I have a sort of story on each of these rifles...
The Enfield... when I unwrapped it at the receiving/transferring FFL, it was a greasy oil-soaked mess. The shop-owner's wife who was working the counter that day... she thought I'd lost my mind buying something like that. Another customer looked bewildered and said "I wouldn't know what to do with something like that". But, I took it home and disassembled it and over the next month, I cleaned up the internals and refinished the stock. Although it was a fighting rifle, it turned out to be a beautiful piece. I took it to the range, flipped up the micrometer set on 200yds, and fired it... that clay pigeon on the 100yd berm... I watched through the aperture as that clay bird exploded. It was a beautiful sight.
The K98k and VZ-24 came to me from SOG, bought both at once, four years ago. I cleaned up the wood, but further work wasn't required so much as a general cleaning. When I fired it with Turkish ammo, I wondered why it hit high at 100yds. Then, one of my shooting buddies relayed what an old Austrian gentleman told him...
100yds- aim for the belt buckle and hit COM
200yds- aim for the belt buckle and hit COM
300yds- aim for COM and hit COM
400yds- aim for the head and hit COM
Even though the tangent sight was graduated for 100m and on out, the sights were calibrated so that with German-issue ammo, the average German soldier of the WW2 era could know where to aim for the different distances without having to worry with the sight setting. Now, my study of history includes some info on the 1st Special Forces (aka "The Devil's Brigade)... they trained not only with the US M1 Garand, but also with German weapons so if they ran out of ammo or otherwise had to use German weapons, they knew how to hit with them.
The VZ-24... as I said, I aquired it at the same time as the K98k. I not only had to do some stock refinishing, but I also had to de-rust and re-blue. I emmediately found that the sights are graduated differently to the K98k. The VZ-24's sight is graduated from 300m on out. I also found that the VZ-24's sights are a finer picture than the K98k's so I started to wonder how the soldier saw his sights in a hurry in battle.
While I won't consider sporterizing these rifles, if I run across a real deal on one of Bubba's victims and the action is still intact, I won't hesitate to build a sporter according to me. I've seen a good many rifles in a state where sporterizing would be on a par with rescue.