I have got a .30/06 Springfield rifle, ugliest sporterised military straight stock that someone whittled on and then scratched some checkering onto and called it good. Probably done in the 1950's. It has a Parker Hale receiver sight cobbled onto the side. It would be the ugliest bloody rifle I ever saw, excepting a Mosin Nagant or any kind of Savage. I got it basically for nothing. The space it was taking up was worth more than the rifle. I had visions of using the action to make a nice old-school sporter in a fine stock, a la Griffen and Howe. All it had to do was just shoot alright and I would be satisfied with three inch groups.
But with any load I give it I can shoot a one inch to 1.5 inch group at 100 meters with that peep sight, and it seems it was brought up in the wild by a family of .300 Magnum's because she gives me top velocity as well.
Can't really bring myself to do anything with it now. Sometimes they earn their place as they are.
