Don't restore an old muscle car (even if it's a rusted hull), just buy a Corvette.
But you’re NOT restoring an old muscle car. You’re taking an old 1960's work truck, cutting off the roof, gluing a fin on it and calling it a sports car.
Im in the process of restoring a milsurp. What I do, and what bubba does are completely different ends of the spectrum
The First Rule of Milsurp Elitists is that anything they own that isn't bone-stock is a Tastefully Done Custom Job; anything you own that isn't bone-stock is a drunken bubba hack job.
No, the first rule of milsurp collection is "Do no harm" don’t do anything to the rifle that it wouldnt of been issued with or that it didn’t pick up in its professional life. That includes stock carvings, painted on numbers or colors, or the like.
The idea that a "milsurp elitist" as you call us would even have a "custom job" is contradictory to your own argument. You argue that we are blindly opposed to touching a gun for any reason, yet you suggest that we are hypocritical to the point that we have our own bubbas that we think are better than yours.
It's the novelty and the desire to make something one-of-a-kind
HAHAHA ya real "one of a kind" you and every other person who buys an ATI stock or a bent bolt on eBay.
What's valuable today is only so because of Joe Bob's handiwork in past decades; if original whatever’s could still be had by the barrelful
thats assuming equal production, survival and importation of all the hundreds of milsurps.
I'd never be able to live with myself if I did, but I still want to.
so what makes it ok for you to have reservations on a smaller scale. but wrong for me to present a SOCIALY IMPOSED argument against bubba.
see there’s the key. we have 2 factors in our lives that limit what we do. Social and Legal (civil/criminal). Legal should only serve as a means to support the most outrageous of social taboos ( this is called natural law. the things so widely despised and inherently evil, no reasonable minded person would support them. murder, rape, eating babies. all the good stuff)
social on the other hand covers everything from civility, manners, trust, courtesy, etiquette etc. you remove your hat when you enter a building. not because its the law and you risk jail time, but because its etiquette and you risk a whooping from you father. You don’t eat with your hands at a formal dinner, not because its the law, but because its frowned on by the rest of society.
and you shouldn’t bubba a milsurp, not because its a law. but because it should be socially unacceptable.
"milsurp purist" are only trying to get the rest of the world to adopt this social standard. we present reason as to why bubbas are
Damaging objects of historic significance
Sub par sporters
Possible destruction of extremely rare models
Destruction of future generations to own pieces of history
And more
I personally may joke around that "he should go to jail for hacking up that ___" but no one is seriously suggesting there be any legal attempt to prohibit modification. But it should be socially frowned upon
You may say "so what, who cares what you (society) think, im gunna do it anyway" but no matter how Marlon Brando or James Dean you think you are. Social restrictions still affect you. And if you dug up George Washington or John Adams and ask if they wanted America to be ruled by social norms and only a hand full of laws in support of only the natural laws. Im sure they would agree.