Some A4 porn

[daveboy]

A couple of years ago, a young man called me because he heard that I collected old, military rifles. He was in need of money, and had a rifle to sell. He told me that he had an old sniper rifle that he had recently inherited from his uncle when he passed. Said that his uncle had got it from "the army" in the early sixties and it had sat in a closet ever since. He had no idea what it was but noted that although it had a scope mount and rings, there was no scope included. He said that he had recently fired two rounds through it (un-aimed of course) and thought the recoil was more than he could handle. He said it took 30.06 ammo, which got my attention (his uncle had a few rounds stored with the rifle). I asked him to send me a few cellphone pics and I would get back to him. I was expecting a sporterized A3 at best. Imagine my excitement when I saw that off-center receiver stamp! Needless to say, I jumped on the purchase, but only after I told him that the rifle was worth much more than I could offer him. I told him exactly what he had, and that his uncle had likely purchased it from the DCM. He was happy to take what I offered. I ran a patch or two down the chamber, found a Weaver 330, and sent 5 rounds of my handloads downrange. With my bad eyesight, I put those 5 rounds within 1.5". The rifle was in bad need of some in-depth cleaning, and the stock looked like it had been drug behind a truck for a week or so. I gave the rifle a good cleaning, and put it in a new CMP stock until I had the time to work on the original stock. Finally, over the past several days, I was able to clean that stock up, apply a little stain and some BLO. Very happy with the results. 2016-07-10_3261.jpg2016-07-10_3262.jpg2016-07-10_3263.jpg2016-07-10_3264.jpg2016-07-10_3265.jpg[ATTACH=CONFIG