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Ignition Override · August 23, 2013, 08:13 PM

My very seasoned gun buddies and I never give permanently modified milsurps a second glance. A friend has thirty excellent-mint milsurps in his vault.

The perm. modified examples lost their character, much of the value, and other than with a limited number of MNs, simply increases the prices of those Enfields, Mausers etc which survived in the original configuration.

A friend has a beautiful pre-WW2 Czech Mauser in excellent condition (Orlando gun show, two years ago), which had already been re-blued with a nice reddish stain on the wood, but in the original configuration.
So many guns already had parts cut off and have nothing to lose. As for the better examples, y'all are free to grind down, drill and cut anything out there.

August 23, 2013, 08:13 PM	#47
Ignition Override Senior Member Join Date: February 18, 2008 Location: About 20 nm from the Big Muddy Posts: 2,884	My very seasoned gun buddies and I never give permanently modified milsurps a second glance. A friend has thirty excellent-mint milsurps in his vault. The perm. modified examples lost their character, much of the value, and other than with a limited number of MNs, simply increases the prices of those Enfields, Mausers etc which survived in the original configuration. A friend has a beautiful pre-WW2 Czech Mauser in excellent condition (Orlando gun show, two years ago), which had already been re-blued with a nice reddish stain on the wood, but in the original configuration. So many guns already had parts cut off and have nothing to lose. As for the better examples, y'all are free to grind down, drill and cut anything out there. Last edited by Ignition Override; August 23, 2013 at 08:18 PM.