Dear fellow PAFOA people...

I had a very nicely worded post but got logged out before I could post.

Summarized, I could spend close to $1,800 building a mauser into a M40 clone or spend about $1,200 on something like a Remington 700 or Savage 10 and have what I'm looking for.

Would you spend hundreds of dollars and a bunch of time building a rifle just because nobody has one or just go buy the same rifle that everyone else has?

I already own a JC Higgins Model 50 which is what I would use for the build. The end result would never be worth the money put into it and I would be tearing apart a much sought after rifle to build what I want.

My wife is tired of hearing me talk about this so I figured I'd think out loud on here.

Thanks