Shot the little Sig this weekend. Shoots well and is very accurate. My buddy brought his new Smith & Wesson 629 compensated .44 Magnum. We were shooting the super hot Remington 180 grain rounds (I call this an "authentic" .44 Magnum load) and I had some flinching issues shooting them after a few mags of almost recoil-less .380.
My dad's got an IBM M1 carbine...that some tool sporterized somewhere along the way. He bought it on a hunting trip in the late 70s/early 80s and didn't care that the stock wasn't original or that it had some sort of aftermarket adjustable rear sight added. When I showed him the maker's stamp on the receiver and told him that he had something that could've been valuable, but no longer was, then he did care. I've since replaced the stock with a GI one, but fixing the rear site might not be possible. It's been a while since I looked at it, but ISTR they did some milling to the part of the receiver where it's mounted.
Went to the gun show today hoping to find ammo and a gun case for my Mosin-Nagant. Didn't get ammo I wanted or the gun case, and ended up picking up a Turkish Mauser. To be fair it only set me back $250...
Honestly the only reason that sportered Krag doesn't make me cry is because I have no interest in owning one. I guess something positive is that is reminiscent of what was done with custom hunting rifles back in the black powder days. Which also isn't something that really appeals to me, so
I only recently learned that the .30-30 was always a smokeless powder round, despite the black powder "caliber-grains of powder" nomenclature.
Right, I'm just comparing what was done to this Krag is like what I've seen on old custom hunting rifles from the black powder days.