Sand and pine needles
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Great rifle and another solid piece to your collection. Congrats!!
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We all have our basic differences on leaving things the way we found them or cleaning and safety checking and what that involves for trips to the range in safety for you sand others around you. I have so many Finnish rifles now and have seem that so often that one or maybe even ten being cleaned will never modify history in the overall sense since most collectors know any of the conditions can and do exist on many rifle haphazardly. Therefore I have made my choices and indeed still honor the choices made by others even though I may not completely agree and worry that sometimes their inaction may actually cause damage to a rifle. This is a very personal choice and reflects only on the owner and is their choice therefore. So to each his own to my way of thinking. Bill 
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A very nice rifle, but I can't help wonder that if sand and pine needles are sitting on the preservative grease if it is not indicative of a rodent problem in a warehouse. The timing does not seem right for the rifle to come in from the field and then be mothballed with the sand an needles in place.
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Time to revive a great thread.... Showcase anyone???? 
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The showcase is missing a Bohler Stahl so this one will fill that gap nicely.
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it". Mark Twain
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Maybe the Finns stuffed pine needles under the handguard as a form of bedding like how the Russian snipers wrapped oiled cloth around the barrel. 
Looks like you have a nice piece of the Finnish homeland now, grown naturally in Finnish soil.
Looks like you have a nice piece of the Finnish homeland now, grown naturally in Finnish soil.
I'm just here for the free coffee mug and tee shirt. 
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It must have gotten lost in the shuffle. It was nominated 2 years ago.SA1911a1 wrote:Why isn't it already in the showcase? Got my vote!
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Millman is right. This was nominated 2 years ago and it just got lost in the shuffle at that time.
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This thread has been revived twice! It is great to see this rifle in the showcase.
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What's the deal with the sand and pine needles?
Back in the day (late 80's, early 90's) I remember coming across a couple of MN's that had sand and pine needles in them. That's when I would buy them from the SHOTGUN NEWS for $59.95 +, and just clean them up a little bit to sell. My gun buddy back then had some of these too. We would complain about how dirty they were and no one even cared to clean them properly.
Does this make them worth more money?
Back in the day (late 80's, early 90's) I remember coming across a couple of MN's that had sand and pine needles in them. That's when I would buy them from the SHOTGUN NEWS for $59.95 +, and just clean them up a little bit to sell. My gun buddy back then had some of these too. We would complain about how dirty they were and no one even cared to clean them properly.
Does this make them worth more money?
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I'd say it just shows that no one has had them apart since they left Finland. I don't think it is worth a premium, but it is nice to see that and know it hasn't been monkeyed with.RugerNut wrote:What's the deal with the sand and pine needles?
Back in the day (late 80's, early 90's) I remember coming across a couple of MN's that had sand and pine needles in them. That's when I would buy them from the SHOTGUN NEWS for $59.95 +, and just clean them up a little bit to sell. My gun buddy back then had some of these too. We would complain about how dirty they were and no one even cared to clean them properly.
Does this make them worth more money?
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
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Sand in more than my m14. B-4-1, Tank Hill Ft. Jackson SC. 1966.
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