WOW! You guys have really inspired me. I have a ww2 Russian 91/30 in a laminated stock. It looked like it have been back to the arsenal multiple times when I bought-nothing matched; but since I wanted a cheap shooter I didn't care. THEN I started stripping it and cleaning away the years of grease and it started looking nice.

Shooting it with surplus ammo turned out to be a pleasant surprise too. I wanted to add a scope but NOT make a "sniper clone"; still I wanted something which looked "European" but not spend a fortune. So I decided to use a PU scope/mount and to keep it from being the "clone", Im having a Butterknife bolt handle made. My thought was that it would give it that 1950-60s era custom build look.

I THOUGHT I was finished with Mosin Nagants; but now that Ive read this thread, I think Im hooked. The picture on pg11 of the Full Stocked sporter has me drooling. Im headed out in the morning for a suitable donor rifle.