One piece stock No. 4 Mk I* conversion

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 britrifles wrote:

What you described Goosic is not at all unusual, very commonly done with M1 rifles, turning a “mixmaster” of parts back to period correct configuration.   And collectors will continue for years doing this, some will try convince the buyer that it’s an “original”  issued rifle.   Very astute collectors will know the difference. Much more difficult to do with some nations service rifles, as many parts were serialized.  My Swedish Mauser carbine has serial numbers on just about every part, and they all match. 
 I am not certain that you understood what this individual had done to his rifle.When I had examined it, it had been FTR'd by Fazackerly in 1947 and had a barrel replacement done and in the process had various metal bits replaced with non Savage stamped items.
This, "individual" and I use that word loosely,  went and bought every part he could locate with a square S stamped on it, including a very worn 2 groove Savage barrel and then paid over 700 dollars in labor to have a gunsmith disassemble a perfectly good rifle and reassemble it with a worn out barrel and metal bits that are just short of rusting apart just so he could own a Period Correct No4Mk1* with all matching pieces when he would have been better off leaving the rifle alone in its FTR'd condition. That also included removing the Beechwood stockset that WAS original to the rifle and replacing it with a walnut stockset because,(His Words), "Every S stamped Brit gun I saw had slits on that top wood thing!" He has it for sale right now for 2000.00 and it matters nothing to him that that it probably will not shoot accurately any longer. The FTR'd rear sight WAS a MkI Poole made example but was replaced with a S stamped L flip type. Technically yes, it was a "mixmaster" of parts but done at the Fazackerly factory and was updated with a 5 groove barrel and a MkI micrometer sight so it was still considered "Original" and WAS very much collectable. Now its Period Correct...