Recycling a rifle is good if the donor parts are not too butchered up. I’ve taken barrels and furniture from older rifles like say brand x, repurposed into rifles for people that couldn’t afford to buy quality and they just wanted to get into shooting, but wanted something looking more historically correct. The biggest issue is dealing with such things as hole through tang or holes in trigger guard studs or mounting screw hole through set triggers that will not work with the new build, most can be over come, but the fact is there is additional challenges to deal with, and for someone learning to build these things can be more of a hassle then it’s worth. I’d go with others suggestion of just keeping the rifle as is, learn from it and move on. I have a rifle that doesn’t look bad and shoots great, built from a blank. I use it as a tool for how to build better rifles now, there’s a big difference between that rifle and the last few I’ve built so many years later. I say move on and build another.
