I have no plans, repeat no plans, to sporterize my CMP Springfield. At most I would swap out the stock and possibly put a scope mount on it that didn't require any drilling and tapping. I don't want to do anything that would prevent me from putting the rifle back into original condition. Mine isn't in the best of shape. The stock is the straight kind, but with the finger groove. It's beat up pretty bad. My '03 was one of those Greek returns and has some of that black parkerizing that must have been popular with the Greeks, although the receiver itself does not have that black stuff. It's got a pinned floor plate that many of the Greek returns had. What I'd really like to do is one day get the whole thing either reblued or parkerized and buy a Boyd's stock or something and restore it.

I may go with elgallo114 and just practice with the iron sights to see what I can do. The small aperture sight is rated for 100 yards, so if I can do OK with it at the range tomorrow, I may try it this weekend. Where I currently hunt, all of my shots are under 50 yards, so I wouldn't have to be an expert marksman to put the bullet where I needed it.

I'm just researching my options.