It's a neat gun and we all think it's an NRA Sporter. Too bad so many of them got civilian sporterized, but that's what we collect after all. Some of my favorite rifles are NRA Sporters that were used to create "other sporters". Only the star remains, but, in the future, the star will mean something. I have posted before about my 92 year old gun buddy who stocked an NRA Sporter in birdseye maple in the forties, kicking himself every day for losing the original stock and hardware. When he leaves us in the next ten or fifteen years, I will treasure that "ruined" NRA Sporter that my long time friend built. I still have the 1937 issue of the American Rifleman where he advertised "Wanted, NRA Sporter barrelled action, cheap, contact XXX Chevy Chase, MD." The person who contacted him with the NRA Sporter for sale was a gentleman who I had shot with in the fifties as a pre teenager at our gun club, which was founded by my friend's father in the very early thirties. Don't give up on the NRA Sporters just because they are not in original condition.
