Yeah, I get that. But it's still butt ugly! smile

If I spend a lot of time building/refining/tuning/working up loads for a rifle it has to have pleasing aesthetics too or I won't mess with it.

"A thing of beauty, and a joy forever" only about half applies to Mosin-Nagants, IMO. (My opinion being worth a bucket of warm spit in many instances!)

"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty