RE: Gotta love those old surplus rifles!!
I knew a couple of guys that desided to try their hands at building there own "custom" rifles. They picked up a couple swedeish military guns in 7X57. They had plans to rechamber-rebarrel-restalk and all. They cleaned them up a bit and took them to the range to shoot a few rounds through them. They did a little stalk work on them, shortened the barrels and put on scopes. That was it, they liked the way the guns shot just fine.