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Where did you find the scope base and mounts?
Where did you find the scope base and mounts?
Getting Over The Habit?
in Chewing the Cud
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Funny you should say that. That's where I am now myself. Actually what got my attention was the knowledge that the "fun" part was getting to know a new rifle, cleaning it up and making it serviceable, shooting and trying to accurize it. Once I got that part done, it's on to the next unfamiliar gun. Just like putting aside a lover for lack of excitement. I'm not a gunsmith by any stretch but have built several old Mauser actions into wonderful hunting guns and that was fun too. Finding a good gunsmith worth his pay has been impossible for me though and I've given up that routine. I hate to blemish this forum but I have to say my current passion has been building an AR-15 from the ground up. No gunsmith needed, lots and lots of variables to play with and easily changed.
I sold several old war horses to be able to put together an AR I can be proud of and I don't regret it. I'm keeping all the ole friends I cherish, but their new companions will be fewer. Don't have much room for more anyway. I found out that performance and accuracy is what spins my prop, the collecting was fun but I put more work into it than I should have. Never ruined a milsurp but I guess I should've been a gunsmith by trade. I sure like building.
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Dok