Thank you Hamish! 

Yes, I'm pretty much into shooting everything in my collection and have no problem with mixmasters as long as they're fun.  My first C&R was a sporterized Arisaka that I'm still fond of even though it's collector value is pretty low.  I mainly wanted to ad a Krag to the collection and I had been eyeing this one at a LGS for a while hoping I'd found a diamond in the rough.  Happy I added it to the collection and I certainly knew enough to talk them down to half of the inflated price they were asking for it.   




Hamish wrote on Jan 4^th, 2018 at 3:27pm:

Ora, You've got an interesting rifle there.  While some purists look upon any altered rifle with disdain, I always wonder where and what the rifle saw in its travels from factory to finally ending up in our hands.  Each alteration was done for a reason, and while some may be better done than others, they are its history.  Personally, I would rather have ten "Shooters" rather than one "Safe Queen" to play with, but that is just me,,,,,.  Enjoy it for what it is, butlersrangers, As always, you do yourself and this forum the highest compliment.  Skol!