05-08-2008, 11:26 PM
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 I bought this N.E.W on gunbroker.com for sixty or seventy bucks; I don't remember the exact price. The American walnut stock had been cut back, and the comb shaved down really thin for some reason. But the rifle itself was almost immaculate. The guy selling it told me he had bought it at a yard sale ten years earlier, from a man who said it had belonged to his grandfather. I got the stock first and went looking for a gun to fill it, to tell the truth. The stock came from another member who said it was off a Russian 91/30. I was surprised when it arrived and turned out to be a Finnish m91 stock instead, and ecstatic when I peeled the cruddy, sticky black finish off it and found all that gorgeous Arctic birch burl wood. I tried to do the wood justice when I refinished it: I rubbed it silky smooth, stained it, and French-polished multiple layers of tung oil into the wood. Then I topped everything with a layer of carnauba car wax, to protect it. Here's the picture from the Ebay listing. Pretty heartbreaking, isn't it? 
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05-09-2008, 05:39 PM
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As I mentioned, they also planed down the comb until it was really thin, and thinned the rest of the stock too. My guess is that they were trying to lose some of that 9 1/2 pounds these things weigh (probably closer to ten, with a walnut stock). And when it was still heavy, they must've hung it on a wall somewhere instead of carrying it, because there's hardly any wear at all on it, inside or out. I like 'em both ways: pretty and unused, or battle-scarred with history all over them. So I'm happy.
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