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It recently dawned upon me that I didn’t post those high-res unit pictures from Odessa. Well, here they are!

Standing for inspection before marching to battle

After a long day of Nazi killing

That’s all until it gets cold again!

After I got home from Penn State, I had a little time on my hands, and a particularly ugly finish on my newly acquired m44. So having nothing better to do, I decided to strip off the Soviet issue shellac and refinish it. All told I put about 10 hours of work into this stock, but the vast majority of the process was waiting, which took about a week for everything to settle in.

This is how the rifle looked before the process started.

m44 with old finish

So I went out and found this excellent guide to refinishing milsurp rifles, and followed it to the letter.

Here’s my stock in the “driftwood” phase.

Driftwood

And finally, all finished.

All pretty

I really like the way it came out. It even feels nicer. And, best of all, gave me something to do for a few days.