Well for me its a snob thing pure and simple, I just like Mausers and a genuine Mauser manufactured sporting rifle is the "creme de la creme" IMHO.
Philip C Bolger (a yacht designer) put it best when he declared "why own a playboy centrefold if you can afford a Ruebens original" . . . or something like that. A No 1 or Remchester is sort of only a bit above the centrefold end of the scale.
Unfortunately I have to add that I'm on a "beer budget" so all my rifles bar one are also in the centrefold class - but hey - its ok to dream.
