I fricking hate sporterized rifles so much.
I want to take every boomer that ever thought to mangle a perfectly good service rifle, put them all in a blender, and let it run until they're a consistency of fine mist.
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I fricking hate sporterized rifles so much.
I want to take every boomer that ever thought to mangle a perfectly good service rifle, put them all in a blender, and let it run until they're a consistency of fine mist.
>you betrayed the Milsurp race, Gramps!
FTFY; most of these were probably done by the Greatest Generation.
blame the US military. there were length limitations on packages the troops could send home, and an unaltered service rifle wouldn't fit. if you took it apart the barreled action would fit, but the stock was still too long unless you cut the forearm off at the first barrel band, at which point you've done the damage and may as well keep going. my granddad killed quite a few deer with the radom and brno mausers he sent back to grandma, though he never bubba'ed them past the initial stock cut.
i have sporterized type 38 that looks fricking mint, someone clearly loved that rifle except for the fact that its cut and defaced. i know they can still be perfectly capable of doing their jobs, its just a crying shame.
and some of these boomers really take it to the next step to deface proof marks
it may have been defaced before the boomer got it. japan ordered their troops to remove the imperial chrysanthemum from their arisaka's before turning them in, and most argentine mausers had the crest ground off before they were sold.
you're right, i know they tried to scrub mums off before they were turned in, they weren't sporting them out though.
the quality of sporterized rifles certainly varies with who did the job and how much the owner cared about it.
some do such a good job that its baffling why they didnt just spend the same money on a new rifle to serve the same purpose
they did the labor themselves, for "free", rather than paying someone to do it.
No there are a ton of "factory" sporterizations.
Many of these rifles would likely have been sold as metal had they not been sporterized
*Scrap metal
Oh sure, those existed too, but that's clearly not what the person I was replying to was talking about.
People would perform the infamous "duffle cut" to shorten stocks but they generally tried their best to hide the damage by placing the cut under a band.
The main motivation for sporterizing went like this:
>I really want a durr rifle but those new Winchesters and Remingtons sure are expensive
>I can buy a surp rifle out of a barrel at the local hardware store for chump change
>Huh, this army rifle is really heavy and has a lot of extra crap on it I don't need
>Good thing it was cheap and already beat up, I don't really feel bad about cutting it down.
>Dude, is that what I think it is? Holy shit
>Yeah man, first edition Glock. These are rare as shit now
>Too bad some fricktard stippled the grip and changed out the trigger
>Yeah I know, I only paid $22k for this one, but it would have been 50k easy if it was all mint
You realize that in 50 years autists will say the same thing about the plethora of sport rifles and shotguns nowadays.
they can say whatever they want. they can do whatever they want to a complete gun. i can't UNFRICK this arisaka
I'm inclined to agree with you, having seen a lot of awful, half assed hackjobs.
The SKS in a tapco stock of their era.
But a sporterized rifle can look and feel good. I wouldn't be ashamed to give a good home to a well executed example.
Especially with a mannlicher stock.
Though preferably without the gauche cheek rest
>Though preferably without the gauche cheek rest
this fricking thing had to be the hottest shit in peak boomer sporter times. like a high schooler putting a cold air intake on his shitty civic to show his buddies at school
>Though preferably without the gauche cheek rest
But the cheek weld tho.
That's genuinely what I was looking for. That exact image. That's a nice sporter i felt like the one I posted was a half-hearted rendition of the idea.
It's charming in a way. The damage ia done and when it's not some lazy hackjob it has a sort of puckish charm.
Makes you think of the man who bought it at a hardware store and sawed on it in the first place.
Makes me remember a mauser HSC I wish I bought that had been vulgarly nickle plated. I really regret not getting it.
Nazi eagle stamps drowning in nickle.
To imagine a time when you'd so something so stupid.
Sorry child, the world doesn't owe you cheap unfricked-with surplus firearms.
Prior to you CODgays, milsurp was just considered a cheap way for those you call the poors to put food on their table.
Deal with it. You homosexual.
post guns.
i'd rather cry about it like the entitled little zoomer shit that i am.
Well at least you're honest about it.
>Prior to the import bans we supported to protect our investments before COD advertising, milsurp was just considered a cheap way for those you call the poors to put food on their table.
>Deal with it. You homosexual.
Ftfy
There werent import bans on old bolt actions.
Instead of being upset over a time thats come and gone, you should be looking for the good deals available today.
>There werent import bans on old bolt actions.
Yes there was if they were being sold from military inventories. From the 1968 GCA to the 1986 FOPA.
>investments
bubba'd milsurps aren't investments though, which means your headcanon is as moronic as you
>frick you got mine
i wonder who could be behind this post
My Enfield isn't working in the trenches anymore so it dosnt need all the extra wieght. If I stop being a pussy and volunteer to be shelled in the Donbass I'll put the wood back on
boomers are based, Look forward to buying their collections for pennies from their widows at gun buybacks and shows.
I have a standing ad in my local boroughs classified advertising that I buy old guns, The few enquires so far have been boomer fudd junk.
>The few enquires so far have been boomer fudd junk.
like what
literally fudd shotguns and hunting rifles, junk.
are they at least willing to part with it for pennies on the dollar
Please tell me you aren't surprised.