THIS is why we preach to the guys who Sporterize
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Yes but there were 10,000X more AVAILABLE and nobody GAF if someone bought 1000 of them just to have bronzed.
BigDaddy
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- Feb 7, 2014
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Dave91
Ultimate Member
That is truly horrific. Someone should buy and restore it.
somd_mustangs
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- Jul 1, 2012
- 5,755
Not much point. It looks buffed and then nickel-plated over pitting. Looks like just a light dusting of paint that would come off easily though. Then again it could just be reflection from something green in the background.... there's some green on the mag too. And the green doesn't appear in same place on frame in 2nd pic (mag release area).
You can buy a pretty nice original one for that price.
... but maybe it's an uber-rare party leader gun
it's hiding in the corner but that holster could be worth some $$ depending on what it is.
You can buy a pretty nice original one for that price.
... but maybe it's an uber-rare party leader gun
it's hiding in the corner but that holster could be worth some $$ depending on what it is.
Josh Smith
Active Member
- Aug 10, 2010
- 105
h2u
Village Idiot
Those were presentation firearms from after the war. His original rifle was lost when he was shot in the face. His replacement is in a museum. Their only worth, if any, is because of who owned them-NOT because they were sporterized.
...and yes. Only Simo Hayha can make a reindeer sweater cool
Machodoc
Old Guy
...and yes. Only Simo Hayha can make a reindeer sweater cool
The urban legend about sweater-wearing Mr. Rogers having been a combat sniper was, of course, false ... but Hayha would still be the ultimate badass even if he was wearing pink bunny jammies.
P.S. ... Sometime in the late 1950s, when I was in grade school, some family friends sent me a reindeer sweater for Christmas. It was supposedly a big deal, at the time, because it was an "authentic" traditional sweater either from Finland, or from someplace like Minnesota where there was a Finnish tradition of making "authentic" sweaters. Even then, I was pretty horrified when I was made to wear the thing to school (where, of course, I heard more Rudolf jokes than even I'd expected). I think the poor sweater soon suffered an "accidental" spillage of grape juice down the front. My point in mentioning this is just to say that what we now think of as a traditional ugly Christmas sweater seems to have had its origin in a traditional piece of clothing that was to Finland sort of what the cowboy hat is to Texas.
Augie
Ultimate Member
Machodoc
Old Guy
One of the kids that I grew up with had been stationed in Germany, and he had a pair of green lederhosen that he wore to school ... once ... along with some sort of Tyrolean hat.
I'll grant you, though, that you make a great case for them looking rather stunning on the right person.
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Josh Smith
Active Member
- Aug 10, 2010
- 105
Those were presentation firearms from after the war. His original rifle was lost when he was shot in the face. His replacement is in a museum. Their only worth, if any, is because of who owned them-NOT because they were sporterized.
...and yes. Only Simo Hayha can make a reindeer sweater cool
Oh, I know... but I had to be a dick.
Still, the way I figure it, all the Finnish Mosins were just bubbaed Russian Mosins, and the Finns had to bubba them because the Russians couldn't get it right in the first place.
