I hope someone thought it a great project rifle and will make it into something
But it is not. There, IMO, is really nothing of value that can be made into anything. The stock is trash, burn it. The receiver sight is hosed up and its anyone's guess if it could be fixed and at what cost for parts if you can find them today. The side mount is, well it would have to stay on the receiver and would require a fair amount of work to make it look good and then you would have to figure our rings and a slide. And since it doesn't look commercial that means a lot of homework. I have made these mounts and rings and they take a bunch of work to do. The action may be okay but will take some work as usual. We will mention the engraving in a minute. The barrel, is well a barrel and sadly buffeted the hell out of but that can be saved with work. The floorplate/bottom metal is valuable but IMO would be more valuable if not engraved and monogramed. Because now you have to pay somebody to recut and fix all that engraving which the idiot before you did a great job of F'ing up. Yes as Kutter said it can be recut but how many of you are Kutter and can do that? Even doing it yourself you have to figure the cost. To recut all the engraving it would cost a number of hundreds that I am sure. How much I do not know and wouldn't want to find out. Now remember you already have some $1500 stuck in the rifle.
That rifle could be a project rifle but never a "great" project rifle IMO
