I picked up a Muaser a few months ago for $100. Model93 in 7x57 with all original parts and matching serial # on action, bolt, guard, stock and barrel shroud.

Part of me would like to keep it all original and just clean up the few blemishes on it. (minus where the name of the soldier is cut into the wood under the barrel shroud) but at the same time I wouldn't mind updating it and making a decent hunter out of it. If nothing else, those old battle sights stink and I wouldn't mind having a peep added to the receiver but I hesitate to have it drilled and tapped to mount one.

What do you think:
"Preserve" it as history,
do enough to make a shooter out of it,
or go all the way and use it to build a custom?