Bought a $50 Mauser

[Chaffee2]

Yes guilty as charged.

Thanks for the link. Your carbine looks to be in better condition than mine at least the wood anyway. That M1 Garand is awesome how long did it take to refinish the stock?

I have a CMP Springfield Garand that needs some TLC on the stock. It is rough enough and dirty enough I don't think refinishing it is going to hurt the value or the history.

[-Wolverine-]

I bought the Garand at the gun show last year, it came refinished. There were only three Garands at the show, the Springfield I bought, a H&R, and a Springfield that was purdy worn.... really nice looking really. I wanted to get that one, but I inserted a 30-06' into the muzzle and the bullet sank all the way to the muzzle, so the muzzle wear was really bad.

I figured my Garands muzzle wear out to 1.5, which isn't bad. The Garand was rebarreled, the receiver is 2.8mil and the barrel is 6mil.

Mine looks too new...... I am almost tempted to take some sand paper to it and "restore" it.