mhbenenson said: "...you would think that anyone who could do such a neat job could have managed the inletting..." Mark, I agree and that is what made me think maybe it was done on a production scale, as an economy sporter. I'm visualizing some company in the '30s and '40s, such as Bannermans, acquiring a boatload of '96s and '98s, and seeing a market for an economy sporter for the masses, came up with this conversion as an economical approach. I suspect a company could crank out several rifles, using this approach in the amount of time it would take to restock one rifle. I guess if that was the case though we would see a lot of them floating around on GUNBROKER.COM today. It would be great to read the "American Rifleman" article referred to in his post. Terry H.
