Mo tends to fondle & fiddle, worry obsessively, ask numerous repetitive questions, disregard answers, fondle & fiddle, ask the same repetitive questions again, disregard the answers, bounce around from gun to gun without really learning any of them, and has a lack of patience.
All of which I've told him in PMs.
All of which he's well aware of.
He's a bright guy, just needs to throttle back a bit in some areas, and the urge to "improve" by sanding, grinding, polishing, disassembling, and in general messing around with them obsessively is one of those.
Trying to forestall the usual cleaning, stuff-in-my-barrel, I-broke-this, why can't-I-shoot-it-well questions several of us have gone through with him as he gets "new" guns.
None of which is intended to discourage Mo from discussion or seeking advice, just to say he's gotten answers to his usual questions in abundance & doesn't need to re-ask the same ones again on this new acquisition, to give him some well-intentioned and serious advice to not over-tinker and not to over-obsess about the bore like he has with his Mosin & K31, and to just enjoy the gun without making it into an overly-involved village project.
I happen to think the 24/47 is a great gun, mine's one of the most accurate, military or commercial, that I own.
I'd like to see Mo learn it & enjoy it as much as anybody here.
I'd also like to see Mo take it slow, without damaging it as he did with his 10/22, and that involves learning the gun as it is before taking his Dremel to it when he really doesn't have enough knowledge to understand what's involved.
With the older surplus guns, unnecessary disassembly can result in problems like the one Mo encountered with his barrel band.
To Mo's credit, he did ask for help before using a bench grinder to solve the problem, and in this case listened to advice.
Just urging caution, restraint, and patience.
And FM- I'd probably discount at least half those stories.
Denis