Originally Posted by
City Rat
As others have said you are going to get a mixed bag of responses. I am going to mix up the bag a bit. Both with cars or guns, I do not believe in non-functioning, barely working but pure and pristine museum pieces, garage queens or, with one exception, wall hangars. You took a firearm that was out of service and gently put it back into service. From what I can tell if you ever want to sell it as it was take everything apart that you did and reassemble the original rifle. When I either buy or inherit an antique that is out of service it gets a complete disassembly, frame off, cleaning, servicing and repair or replace. If an original piece is good quality but broken, I replace it with the same or as close as I can get to it from the same manufacturer and if the OEM piece was crap, time for a modern upgrade. Again everything I own works and can do the job its intended to do, doesn't matter if its a year or a hundred years old. I like what you did here. To be blunt it looks bad ass. Assuming that you can get your scope mount and bore sight issues wrung out, I am really interested in how well it shoots, ie feel, how accurately it shoots and how far out she can consistently reach out and put a hurt on something.
Good luck and keep us posted.
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