All of us being human, like to mess with things . We buy something or are given something and we want it to be more and better fitted to us and our needs at that time . We buy a new truck and put a bed liner in the bed ( I like the spray in ones ) steps on the trailer hitch running boards and mud flaps or splash guards on them . We spend a lot of time and money doing this and as Reemty said we will not see any return for it when we resell them . Well we being us do the same and spend more on our rifles . We ponder on what caliber we want , what make and model . We may spend a lot of time trying to decide if we want to buy a factory rifle or do we want to build one on a factory action that has been trued and blue printed ( a throw back to our days of building engines for our cars and trucks ) or maybe we think we will save up and buy a custom action . When we do buy a factory in the box rifle most of us will take it out of the box clean it and might even put a scope on it then sight in the scope all the while wondering what we might do to make it better for us . Then being human we start to tinker with it . I will pull it out of the stock and check the fit of it with the stock .If it's not a 22-250 Ruger I will free float the barrel and pillar bed the action ( I have found that most Ruger 22-250's like the front of the barrel to rest on a pad of bedding if they are sporter weight barrels for some reason ).Then comes that rough gravely trigger I can't have that so then comes the decision of what trigger do I want to buy and put on it and what set weight do I want or do I want an adjustable weight trigger that I'll set at 2 1/2 - 3 lbs and leave it there for the life of the rifle hummm . Next comes the stock does it really look like what I want it to is the length of pull the best for me awh heck I'll put it in a different stock and bed it again as time and money allows . Someone I know has a bore scope so we look down the barrel ( and that scares me to no end it looks like a bad wash board road ) I clean it for hours then look at it one more time . It turns out that I'm happy with how clean I got it but it still has all those awful machine marks in , who did that rifling job must have been a new hire . So then I order some of those bullets that a guy that shoots targets out to 1000 yards and beyond builds and sells to fire lap my bore , who cares if it shot good groups I'm going to make it bug hole 5 at a hundred yards with these lapping bullets and the magic they impart to my bore . Now I've put a couple of hundred rounds down the barrel and come to find out the locking lugs only have 60 % contact on one of them what happened here now I have to get it lapped also then recut the chamber as well so that means I'll need the barrel set back a turn also . Will it ever end for this rifle awh shucks I'll just go buy another rifle I've already put too much into this one and it doesn't appear there is any end in sight to what I need to do for this poor thing to be what I wanted it to be . Just my dry sense of humor . I really do modify somethings on all my factory rifles and trucks I just don't get that carried away wit it . I'm not a gun smith nor do I want to be I just need my equipment to function well when needed and I like to tinker with things I am human after all .