Great rifle and the lack of weight makes it interesting/attractive.

Unless your using stripper clips (my son does), the guides are useless and I'm planning on having them removed on my next (still collecting parts) custom rifle build. The weight saving would be minimal but for a quick top up when using just express sights I'd welcome the extra opening.

There seem to be a lot of opened up Mauser actions that 'when done correctly' are perfectly safe and feed correctly. Having grown sceptical of most gun and hunting myths, I wonder if a lot of nay-sayers are either lazy gunsmiths or sellers of magnum length actions. Maybe I'm just getting old.