T99 Long Rifle. Worth Restoring?

[vintage hunter]

I don't want to rain too much on your parade or the T99 longs, but using a donor lower section of a T99 short wont work. The butt plate of the T99 long is longer than a short's is.

Yes, you are correct. Had already determined this by taking some comparative measurements after reading post 5. I'm not sure I'll bother with fixing the toe at this point. It appears to be battle damage so for now I'll leave it as is. Another ''oddity'' I encountered was the bolt body that was with the remains of the rifle. It had no rib around the bolt face and it isn't chromed. Never seen another one like it so I'm thinking bubba possibly modified it in the attempt to be able to fire rimmed or semi-rimmed MG ammo. I did a chamber cast and the chamber hasn't been messed with so this is the only explanation I can come up with.
No worries about the counter-boring, there is no chrome left to contend with. The bore in that area is pitted some but the Metford style rifling is still visible so I'm gonna see how it shoots before doing any boring.
The project is coming along well so far, Have replaced most of the missing screws and rear sight slider. Follower and spring coming, had a Nagoya bolt body in the parts bin. The cleaning rod and hand guard are going to be the hard parts to find.