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I live in Minnesota's Metro area, in the 60's era I knew Ozzie Klavstead, owner of the "StageCoach Inn" where the third largest gun collection in the USA was on display.
We were having coffee and talking guns, the subject of engraving and sporterizing military rifles came up, he went to his gun shop and returned with a British Jungle carbine, restocked with beautiful wood and engraved and reblued, he asked me "What's it worth?" I said several hundred dollars.

He laughed an said, "It's no more valuable than the ones in the drum at the hardware store in town, after all this work and wasted money it's just a Jungle carbine." ( In 1960 a jungle carbine cost $17.00, no extra charge for the cosmoline.)

His opinion was if a military gun was designed to kill at hundreds of yards,and survive battle and field conditions, what more do you need to kill a deer in Minnesota?, he thought a K98 action was worth reworking because it's a handsome action and looks like a sporting rifle.

My opinion is to use military rifles as they are, G43's shoot very well, the scopes and mounts are available from Sarco. a 195 grain bullet from a 8mm will kill most everything in North America.

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