KCSO
01-21-2012, 10:53 PM
I weas busy today cutting and crowning a Mosin for a customer who wanted a cheap sporter and I had a flash back. Me, a lot younger, pouring over the Williams catalog deciding how to butcher that cheap surplus Krag.
Yes krags, enfields, mausers, and even 03 springfields cut chopped and mangled in the name of a cheap sporting rifle. And here we are later chopping up the endless stream of Nagants. I wonder will my grandkids look back and say, "Boy Grampa Bubba shure messed up this wonderful piece of history"?
And yet my favorite hunting rifle is a Krag sporter and I love myParker Hale Enfield. Hard to believe that 40 years ago we thought nothing of the endless??? stream of cheap military rifles that are now collectors items. And just a few years ago French rifles and Swiss K31's were less than a hundred bucks and we thought we would never see the end. Now all the K31's I bought so cheap have been passed on the collectors and I regret not keeping more of them.
Yes krags, enfields, mausers, and even 03 springfields cut chopped and mangled in the name of a cheap sporting rifle. And here we are later chopping up the endless stream of Nagants. I wonder will my grandkids look back and say, "Boy Grampa Bubba shure messed up this wonderful piece of history"?
And yet my favorite hunting rifle is a Krag sporter and I love myParker Hale Enfield. Hard to believe that 40 years ago we thought nothing of the endless??? stream of cheap military rifles that are now collectors items. And just a few years ago French rifles and Swiss K31's were less than a hundred bucks and we thought we would never see the end. Now all the K31's I bought so cheap have been passed on the collectors and I regret not keeping more of them.