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In deference to @Nibbs, here is a thread for sporters with that little bit of oddness. Not necessarily kitchen table butcher jobs, but something a little odd or nice.

Heres my Gewehr 98 Haenel Mauser. The original straight grip stock has a pistol grip grafted on. Even has a 1922 Springfield buttplate fit...

Kind of a nice old school sporter...

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Here's two more, just because. The one on the left is a Swedish 6.5 in a mannlicher stock with a butter knife bolt handle.

The one on the right is a 98 Krag with a Lyman 34 rear sight and ramp front sight. The Bishop stock has had the plastic and white line spacers removed. Now has an ebony tip, steel grip cap, and red pachmayr recoil pad...

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Dragged from the other thread...
1936 91/30 hex in a Bishop stock. Aftermarket sights front and rear and a bent bolt. Cheap back-o-the-rack show find.

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Took it out yesterday and was constantly kicking a coffee can around at about 40 yards so it probably is capable of shooting better than me.
 
Golden State Arms Santa Fe Model 1945
AKA a ground down Remington 1917 Enfield with barrel mounted iron sights, and oddly enough, not drilled and tapped for a scope...

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Here is a unique 1898 Krag someone spent allot of time on. It started life out as a rifle and got converted into a hunting carbine at some
Point. Original stock has been thinned way down, And hand stippling was applied. Bore is still very nice. No extra holes in it anywhere.
Someone long ago bought a surplus rifle and made themself a nice little hunting rifle.

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In deference to @Nibbs, here is a thread for sporters with that little bit of oddness. Not necessarily kitchen table butcher jobs, but something a little odd or nice.

Heres my Gewehr 98 Haenel Mauser. The original straight grip stock has a pistol grip grafted on. Even has a 1922 Springfield buttplate fit...

Kind of a nice old school sporter...

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There's just a lot of cool factor in these old rifles. I have a couple that are funky becasue they have left hand cheep pieces for the left handed shooter such as myself. I'll also point out something really funky about one of them, as I post pictures:
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Like I said, left hand cheek piece, pre 64 model 70 extractor, straightened bolt handle, big belly that holds 6 30-06 cartridges and the most funky of all, a dang m14 flash hider:
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I rarely ever show this pic, because I hate that dang flash hider on it. Someone thought it was a damn cool idea though (shaking head here)... This rifle also has a cock on open conversion and I installed a Timney trigger and later found out that's not possible with the dayton traister kit... Well its working perfectly and safely. Kind of like my AR10 with its BAD lever that everyone says you can't do as well...

Here's my latest m1917 sporter, but it was actually a factory sporter made in England. My screen name sake rifle: BSA model E. The funky part about it is it is chambered in 308 Norma and I love it!!!!
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It's my zombie thread, so I can revive it if I want to. Playing around with a truck gun concept and this is what I came up with.
03a3 (drilled and tapped for a side mount sight, no original guns harmed).
19" barrel, cut and crowned
Redfield rear peep sight.
NECG banded front sight with blade.
Graphite black cerakote.
Sporterized 03a3 stock and handguard scavenged from a restoration project gun.
Reproduction sling.

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Israeli Mauser….
post war Czech 98k 308 rebarreled by the Israelis, sold to Guatemala and let to rot. Bulged barrel, rotten wood, a little pitting under the wood line.
25 years and a Choate stock, Redfield receiver sight, Timney trigger, XS scout mount, pistol scope, barrel cut to 16", and a reworked bolt handle later, it will hunt.
 

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Pretty standard sporterized Springfield 1903. But someone took the time to rebarrel it to .22-250. And oddly enough, even with all that action length and that short cartridge, it feeds nicely.

I count it as odd that someone took the time to have it rebarelled, but not restocked. It's just in a cut down (albeit filled in with bedding compound) 1903 scant stock. I will eventually remedy this and put it in a different stock.

Also odd is the CHOW stamp on the barrel. Only gunsmith I can find with that name is F. Bob Chow who was a pretty well known pistolsmith in San Francisco. Can't find any mention of rifles coming out of his shop, but who knows?

Taking it out tomorrow for the first time. It will be interesting…

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Dragged from the other thread...
1936 91/30 hex in a Bishop stock. Aftermarket sights front and rear and a bent bolt. Cheap back-o-the-rack show find.

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Took it out yesterday and was constantly kicking a coffee can around at about 40 yards so it probably is capable of shooting better than me.
Nice silver soldering on that front sight base. Marble Arms and Williams Gun Sight Co. were two of the biggies in the military-sporter realm. "Somewhere" I have an old Williams catalog. Their primary lament about the '91 was the difficulty of attaching optics. You know, the huge OEM rear sight base on Mosin-Nagants could probably be machined to add a red dot. Hmmm.
 
Pretty standard sporterized Springfield 1903. But someone took the time to rebarrel it to .22-250. And oddly enough, even with all that action length and that short cartridge, it feeds nicely.

I count it as odd that someone took the time to have it rebarelled, but not restocked. It's just in a cut down (albeit filled in with bedding compound) 1903 scant stock. I will eventually remedy this and put it in a different stock.

Also odd is the CHOW stamp on the barrel. Only gunsmith I can find with that name is F. Bob Chow who was a pretty well known pistolsmith in San Francisco. Can't find any mention of rifles coming out of his shop, but who knows?

Taking it out tomorrow for the first time. It will be interesting…

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It might have been in a much nicer stock and was swapped into the '03 to move it. Any kind of trigger on it?
 
And I have several stocks laying around to choose from. Just a matter of inletting the barrel and bolt handle…

Edit/Added: took it out today. Forgot to bore sight before I left the house, but did fire two rounds to check the casings, and it looks like it will be a good shooter once I get the scope sighted…
 
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