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Post-WW2 it was the thing to do. Milsurps were abundant and cheap. Guys wanted good looking hunting rifles, not beat up relics of the war. WW2 vets like my Dad and his friends found sporterizing milsurps to be an economical alternative to factory made hunting rifles, particularly given the quality and accuracy of rifles like the 1903, Mauser, and Enfield which could be obtained for a song.I wonder what year(s) it became sacrilegious to sporterise militaria? I've got a m 1917 (I think that's what it was) that my father obliterated everything, to my untrained eye, except the safety when he sporterised it just after he got out of The Navy in 1947. Not a stamp, number, sight or mark on it.
That is so awesome! For me it's the same that I remember some kids doing to classic muscle cars. They would take a classic mustang or whatever and put hood scoops in multiple places, home made spoilers, louvers, shiny goofy wheels and god knows what else. And the interior was often worse. They would take hack saws to the metal dash to make a hole for some equalizer power booster or whatever. It's a free country and they can do it if they want. But we can also shake our heads at the horror (now that I'm older I don't point and laugh anymore... ).