I picked up my 2 91/30's last night at my gunshop that I had ordered from AIM surplus TUESDAY!! GO AIM!! They are both BEAUTIFUL rifles. However I ordered two because the plan was/IS to give one to my girlfriends dad for Christmas. But, I have a dilemma I CANNOT decide which to keep.
The Izzy is a 1941 TIGER STRIPED stock, ALL MATCHING #'s (except Bayo), but EVERYTHING matches, bolt, mag plate, buttplate, even the stock has #'s written inside it that match. I love love love the tiger stripe and my M44 is an Izzy so I kind of like that they match in a way!
Now the 1938 Tula is nice as well, I would be surprised if it was ever shot besides the testing that was done at the factory. The wood is nearly flawless, the metal is all perfect no surface rust or anything. However the mag plate is forced matched ( so I guess it was shot some and during a rebuild was force matched ) but it is still in amazing shape. Annnnd I don't have a Tula yet.
Anyway here are some (crappy) pictures. Which would you keep!?
Overall Shot
Close Up of stocks:
Izzy:
Tula
(note; if you happen to be browsing this thread a few weeks after it was posted the pictures will be gone, I clean out my public picture folder every so often in dropbox).
The Izzy is a 1941 TIGER STRIPED stock, ALL MATCHING #'s (except Bayo), but EVERYTHING matches, bolt, mag plate, buttplate, even the stock has #'s written inside it that match. I love love love the tiger stripe and my M44 is an Izzy so I kind of like that they match in a way!
Now the 1938 Tula is nice as well, I would be surprised if it was ever shot besides the testing that was done at the factory. The wood is nearly flawless, the metal is all perfect no surface rust or anything. However the mag plate is forced matched ( so I guess it was shot some and during a rebuild was force matched ) but it is still in amazing shape. Annnnd I don't have a Tula yet.
Anyway here are some (crappy) pictures. Which would you keep!?
Overall Shot
Close Up of stocks:
Izzy:
Tula
(note; if you happen to be browsing this thread a few weeks after it was posted the pictures will be gone, I clean out my public picture folder every so often in dropbox).