When or if our local club gets another outdoor range open I plan to complete the "ruination" of a few more "fightsman's" bolt rifles. I want a bolt action in .30-40 Krag with the chamber end of it's rifling cut to my ideal for cast bullets. Also I want a .35 caliber rifle chambered for belted magnum case with the capacity of a .35 .30-06 combined with a very long neck to cover up all the grease grooves in a 320 grain bullet. It also needs my ideal lead. The big factories are never going to mass produce either of those.

Sporterizing retired "fightsman's" bolt rifles is not all about getting a less expensive hunting rifle. We can have rifles built to our unusual tastes. Also some of us prefer the feel and function of our favorite old action. My favorite happens to be the US 1917 or for rimmed or belted magnum cases the British Pattern 14 it was derived from.