NRA M1 Garand Tribute rifle.

feeds@yuku.com (Bubbalufagus) — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:31:12 PST

I have the opportunity to pick up one of these and just wanted some opinions. My soon to be brother in law bought this brand new and has kept it stored in his safe ever since. He has only handled it with white gloves. It is un-fired and has all it's pape...
Read More

Finish war photos

feeds@yuku.com (snellSr) — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:06:51 PST

For those of you that haven't seen this yet, here you go. Hours of pics of "the Winter War', "The Continuation War" and " The Lapland War". Just the thing to get you hooked on the Mosins and the men who used them.

Read More

Turk Stock Question

feeds@yuku.com (Nervous) — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:49:42 PST

Hello, I just took delivery of a 1942 K.Kale with what appears to be an Oak Stock. Not knowing my woods like I should, it looks like oak at any rate. In grain and color. My question is this.

Were any of the re-arsenaled rifles outfitted with s...
Read More

inventiveness of WWII Philippine guerrillas, but...

feeds@yuku.com (nothernug) — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:05:25 PST

The Philippine guerrillas of WWII were marvelously inventive in their campaign against the Japanese. To keep their rifles going, if this is factual, they captured mines that broke loose and washed ashore and used their explosive charge for propellant fo...
Read More

Big 'gator!

feeds@yuku.com (nothernug) — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:18:29 PST

Big ole gator taken in a legal hunt- in Texas of course...
Read More

Candidates for 'America's most stupid' (criminals)

feeds@yuku.com (nothernug) — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:55:03 PST

I am no fan of AP and you can believe this wasn't front page news. In fact, I just stumbled over it on line. But at least, report it they did...

Posted: May 14, 2013 6:14 PM CDT Updated: May 14, ...
Read More

Bought a CZ27 today...what a nice little pistol!

feeds@yuku.com (dogngun) — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:21:21 PST
Mine is a fnh model, rough war time finish outside, beautiful smooth trigger and looks like it had maybe 50 rounds through it...Grips are brown bakelite and perfect. SN is 472760 on the frame and 472769 on the slide, which makes me think it was a very old...
Read More

7.62 x 54r

feeds@yuku.com (Carl Gustav) — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:13:06 PST
Do you think the supply of surplus 7.62 x 54r is coming to an end? Carl

44 Tula M38 / Laminated stock

feeds@yuku.com (Miller Tyme) — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:46:52 PST

Pick this little gem up recently and it is with out a doubt the nicest looking laminated stock I have ever seen. And the fact that it's a 44 Tula is just icing on the cake

Read More

WTB: Walnut K98 stock

feeds@yuku.com (mauser3846) — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:22:34 PST
Looking to buy a walnut k98, it can be broken just as long as the for-end of the stock is good. I don't care buttstock is trashed, I need the front end...
Read More

1909 argentine bolt

feeds@yuku.com (mauserwanze) — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:10:35 PST
I have a 1909 argy that the lower bolt stop broke off.I need another bolt assy where is a good place to get one.I checked springfield sporters and liberty tree and they have none.

Hungarian M38

feeds@yuku.com (Miller Tyme) — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:56:09 PST

Went to the OGCA show this past weekend and found me a odd 1940 Izhevsk M38, odd in that is entire bolt and It's front sight are all Hungarian/02 marked (the sight is an M44 front sight). Additionally it has a rac...
Read More

CMP North Store Visit

feeds@yuku.com (Ken Shabby) — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:36:34 PST
I visited the North Store two days ago to buy ammo and came away with three cans of HXP 30-06, an old leather sling, Canfield's book on the Garand and Carbine and a box of new production en bloc clips.

They had one rack each of M1Ds a...
Read More

My "luck" hasn't changed!

feeds@yuku.com (eb in oregon) — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:45:23 PST
Well, I "got a wild hair" and decided to "upgrade" my collection. I had a folded receiver Romanian AK74 that I'd purchased years ago at the beginning of the "Assault Weapons Ban." Of course it came with a five round magazine, no bayonet lug nor flash hide...
Read More

Yugoslav Serial vs assembly numbers

feeds@yuku.com (nothernug) — Sun, 19 May 2013 03:48:17 PST
There has been some confusion about Yugoslav Serial vs assembly numbers. Instead of burying the info on the end of a now older thread, I'd make a dedicated topic of it. I'll also put this into our stickies.

In production, they didn't just m...
Read More

I'm guessing SCW 98AZ?

feeds@yuku.com (petebert) — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:08:00 PST
I'm looking at a Mauser online, poor pics and even worse description. Wondering if I guessed right as to what it is.

It has a stacking rod, it's not a single curved stacking rod like the German K98az, it goes into a base unit like the Polish on...
Read More

CMP HXP Ammo Corrosion

feeds@yuku.com (Ken Shabby) — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:35:04 PST
I made a trip to the CMP North Store yesterday and brought back 3 cans of the Greek HXP 30-06 ammo (200 rounds loose in a plastic bag). I just went through one can and the dates broke down as follows:

1963 - 2 rds
1965 - 8 r...
Read More

In case anyone wonders, I'm still here

feeds@yuku.com (nothernug) — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:38:16 PST
For those who may not have heard, tornadoes clobbered North Texas leaving 6 dead and many injured and homeless (by the count so far). I am south west of that. We only have hot and humid with scattered showers to show for it.
So, if anyone wondered,...
Read More

Beretta 1935 - just got it home Thursday.

feeds@yuku.com (dogngun) — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:57:07 PST
I am buying a lot of various older handguns lately, and this is one I have really wanted for some time...a Beretta Model 1934 in 7.65, which is known as a Model 1935. I am told this one was made late in 1945, after the war ended, and it has NO military ma...
Read More

New Toy

feeds@yuku.com (Gabreski 1st FJ) — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:35:29 PST

Finally got around to doing something with a Chicom sks paratrooper I picked up cheap sans stock, bayo and accessories. Put it into a Shernic Bullpup and added some green stuff. A lot more balanced than I expected but still a little weighty. Should ...
Read More