Gun show carbines

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I get that you don't like the idea your faking it, a lot of Americans seem to think that way, but doesn't change what your doing. If you are a collector it is about preserving history not altering it. Changing it because it suits your idea of history is altering it, not preserving it. I can't just take a Isreali K98k and take the 7.62 markings off it, rebarrel it to 8mm Mauser and call it a WWII K98k, even though your just 'changing the configuration back to WWII standard' and that's how it originally would have been. Your not correcting something if it isn't broken.

I don't think of my self as a serious carbine collector, I only own two, a m1 and an m1a1, I have been thinking about correcting one of them to it's org. WW-2 configuration using WW-2 parts, and I would never think about taking markings off. I hear a lot about if the govt. decides to add on some mod's that it would be "blasphemy" for anyone to dare change it, even though the govt. is the one who 1st altered the carbine, and we all understand why.
As far as your WW-2 K98K changes, that would not be a gun collector, that would be a real life bubba.
Anyway, thanks for your interesting thoughts, I always enjoy coming here, I learn something new every time.