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USMILRET	Re: Your age and what got you started collecting?....	#101	[-]
Posts: 1 (07/06/07 09:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	43 When I started to buy a few more. I don't know about when I actually started collecting. I had a 1903A3 in '84, bought it during my first enlistment. I really started picking up a couple of Garands and M1 carbines. I fancy a 1911 or two. I don't think it's for me but it is to remember our veterans by. I also have a K31 and a mosin sniper. Shooting has alway been natural to me but shooting that mosin isn't natural. I am in the process for reloading that Ivan. Trying to find the weight for bullets that the 91/30 likes.
captain bob badfish	Re: Your age and what got you started collecting?....	#102	[-]
Posts: 6 (07/07/07 04:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I am 31 years old. I have been shooting for at least the last 25 years and a collector for at least the last 10. The battle rifle that got me started was an AR15. But now my collecting revolves mostly around WW2. I have spent more money with the CMP than I care to admit. With the dried up M1's I've had to find a new fix. So my most recent purchase was a numbers matching DWM 1917 German Luger.
GewehrJager	Re: Your age and what got you started collecting?....	#103	[-]
Posts: 6 (08/29/07 07:58 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	51, I've been collecting for more years than I care to remember but untill the last few years it was mostly modern stuff. What go me into C&R's at first were Mosins and now I'm getting ready to branch out to M24/47 Mausers.
Caddy Kid		#104	[-]
Posts: 534 (10/26/07 02:31 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 25 and have been collecting since 2003. What first got me into C&R rifles was a sale on 24/47 mausers at my local Big 5. In researching the rifles, I found this forum, and the rest, as they say, is history. Got my C&R license a couple years ago and have since had to buy more gun safes than I thought I would ever need! Currently I'm really enjoying shooting my restored 1888 and 71/84 "parts rifles" from South America. -Brian
StinkpotPete		#105	[-]
Posts: 23 (01/01/08 04:53 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 41, I've been collecting off and on for about 23 years now. I get a new C&R when I remember to renew. My dad fought in the pacific and my uncle in europe, so I grew up watching world at war and victory at sea, listening to thier stories and going to gun shows. My first rifle was a garand, and then enfields were easy to find and buy. I don't have near as many as I used to, but I'm going for shootability now. Quality is nice, but just looking at 'em just ain't the same for me.
kalashnichris		#106	[-]
Posts: 17 (02/26/08 01:01 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	i'm 28.i've been shooting since i can remember.it wasn't till about 5 yrs ago that i got into "assault rifles"i didn' t know the difference between a sks and an ak.i got a shady ak (mak90) from a friend for my 1st fathers day present.i got a sar1 the following christmas and was wised up to the whole 922 r thing.promptly sold the first mak90 back to my friend for a profit and bought my wife a cur2 and got it up to snuff ,922r wise.bought and sold a bunch of stuff,but i'm definately an ak junkie.a close second is my mosin stuff.i like k98's but the 2 mauser's i've got have been absolute junk.i get rifles for shoot-ability.i wish i could buy more, but thats the way it is for now.
nothernug		#107	[-]
Posts: 10669 (02/27/08 09:38 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Sorry to hear you've had bad luck with your mausers. You might try a Yugo 24/47. Not a "K98" but still good deals out there and they're well made, good shooting guns. Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie until you can find a rock. Will Rogers
mp517prct		#108	[-]
Posts: 3 (05/16/08 02:05 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 29 now, working on my fathers collection about 20 years, on my own about 5 years "I swear on my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" - John Galt
peterb632.britishmilitari...	Age & collecting how long?	#109	[-]
Posts: 2 (06/04/08 01:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well I am 53 now & only started collecting about 6 months ago. I started because when I was 10 my Dad took me to see the movie "Zulu", & I wanted one of those rifles (Martini Henry). I had no contact with firearms for 39 years & then last Autumn & was offered a Snider Enfield (1863) in great shape. Coincidentally while emptying my deceased fathers house I found he had a Lee Enfield No5 (Jungle Carbine 1946), so it was either get rid of it or get a license ....so I did, & had 2 rifles. My 3rd rifle (this weekend) is a Lee Enfield No.1 MkIII (1918) which is what my Grandad would have carried through WW1. I have yet to shoot any of them (due to waiting time at local range) & I still have not got that Martini Henry but I am still young!. Peter (in Burlington)
Hatsumiya		#110	[-]
Posts: 4 (12/19/08 04:28 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 43 years old. I became interested in firearms and militaria at the age of 7 when I watched a documetary on TV about battlefields of the Pacific War. I rememember watching a couple of men trekking through the jungles and finding both American and Japnese relics left behind. At some point one of the men found a Japanese pistol still in the remnants of a rotting holster. I thought this is for me. I want to do that. It was seven years later in 1979 at a pawn and jewelry shop in Flagstaff Arizona that I bought my first war souvenier, a Japanese rifle. I paid $50 for it. The man told me it was an "OSAKA" rifle. I didn't have a clue but was so thrilled. I was on a motorhome trip with my grandparents and remember sleeping with the rifle at my side. After getting back home I went to the library reference section and it didn't take me long to find out it that the correct name is Arisaka and it is a T-99 short rifle to be precise. A couple months later my grandfather went to the river in Arizona. While he was away I mowed his lawns for him. My payment when he got back was a Japanese bayonet that he picked up in Blythe, AZ. Boy I was the envy of all my friends when they saw the rifle with that long bayonet at the end. Almost 30 years later I still have the Nagoya 1st series rifle and bayonet. In 2003, thanks to eBay I was able to complete the rifle by replacing some of the missing parts. A number of C&R rifles have come and gone over the years but I will always keep my first. To this day Japanese firearms are my primary interest. "Generally speaking, the Way of the Warrior is resolute acceptance of death" - Miyamoto Mushashi
SCHMIDT SHOOTER		#111	[-]
Posts: 1 (12/26/08 02:02 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 48 and have loved hunting and shooting since I was in my teens, (the "70's). I have been buying all sorts of modern handguns and rifles, wanting to own every sort of action type, double action, single action, semi auto, bolt, single shot, and wanted the full range of calibers from .22 all the way up to 45/70. I reload for all my guns,and like to experiment with accuracy. Since I seem to have most of the (bad) guns, ar-15, ak-47, sks, mini 14, m-14, m-1carbine, mac-12, mac-11, all the high cap. stuff, I thought that I could start getting (old stuff). At my local gunshop I have always seen Mosins, and Schmidt Rubins, and all the milsurp stuff and have never been intrested until last month, and bought a 91/30 moisin, 1942 Tula matching numbers, and a Schmidt Rubin, all matching. I now officiallyhave been bitten by the milsurp bug and am looking at a Izzy 1943 91/59 Moisin.
qmcorps		#112	[-]
Posts: 4 (12/28/08 01:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 51 and I've been involved in shooting since I was 13. I started out my army career as an infantryman and supply specialist in the 1970-80's mech battalions(m113). I spent 14 years in several mech bns. m16, m60 m2, m3 smg, m1911, m202 flash, m203 and I even got to hang a few 81mm and 4.2 rounds. Toys r us, and I even got paid to do this. Later I was a unit armorer, then a supply sergeant. I spent my last 9 years in several MP BN/ BDE as the S-4 NCO. They had shotguns, MK 19s and m240s to play with, I mean train with. Anyway, thats where I come from. I started getting into milsurps after my kids moved on and I got a 03 C&R. I had been collecting militria, field gear and helmets. It was now time to display the bayonet collection. and the best way to display a bayonet is on a rifle. I have discovered a drug habit would be cheaper, but not as much fun. The collection is growing every month, and the man cave is lined with over 120 years of military history. The ultimate goal is a Thompson M1928A1. Ya gotta dream big.
AzScout		#113	[-]
Posts: 7 (02/15/09 01:59 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I am 44 the first gun I was introduced to was my Dads German Mauser, since then I can't stay away from Russian, Austrian and German military rifles. My favorites are Mosin Nagant carbines and the Steyr M95/30.
Smal		#114	[-]
Posts: 4 (04/09/09 02:32 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Hi ,Im jim,AKA Smal, I started collecting at about age 13 ,my First gun I Owned was a Stevens Model 74 i think it was or 72 a 22 cal rifle,it was my grandfathers gun,he bought new,One of my Uncles sold it to me after it was passed down to him,Im 50 now,and I still have that gun ,and every gun inbetween ,Except for a Tokarav Model 213 I bought new in the early 80,s,It was a Nornico,And I just Did not like it,I collect almost exclusivly Military Weapons as i love to study the History of each gun I purchace,I currently have The stevens .22,A ruger 10/22 stainless,H&R Garand,m-1 Rockola Carbine,an old West Hurley Auto Ordiance Thompson 1927-A-1Commando black Version,A No1 mark 4 Canadian longbranch enfield,A westinghouse 91/30 mosin nagant 1915 octagon reciever, Finish,A Norinco SKS i got years ago still in cosmo straight from the chinease Army with bayo etc installednumber 000075,I think its numbered if i remember correctly,a Mak 90 Norinco,Bushmaster AR-15 XM-15, i think i have a few more back there and this Model 98k yugo im working on now getting the Cosmo out of,Pistols i have a few of them also a Walther p-1,Bersa 22,Russian Makarov nickle 380,CZ-52,HK-vp70z,Smith and Wesson 459 9mm serial 00666,and a few more back there,I also have quite a few books I use for reference and reading on assembly history etc,My next Purchace will Most likely be a War era colt 1911,i almost bought one last week,Expensive but had the right serial nums and had been put up in a holster since the 40,s and had a little bit of pitting on the slide from holster moisture, other than that it was a fine weapon ,my mouth watered,and my wallet cringed,But i know like all my firearms if I take my time i will find the deal ill be happy with in the long run,not wishing i had held off for the non pitted barrel slide etc.Well thats how I got my start and its affected me like some kind of Rampant disease ever since with no cure lol So Hopefully ill never be cured!!
wiled	Mid 50's is my age,going on 40	#115	[-]
Posts: 1 (04/16/09 06:56 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well I am not a real collector(I don't have the funds)but the thing is to own now what was being used in days of powder,patch&ball at least a replica ,to shoot that,well the rest is History.
Larry D		#116	[-]
Posts: 2 (04/29/09 11:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 47. I suppose I got the collecting bug really bad at 10 years of age. Dad bought me a bayonet and sheath as a surprise gift when I accompanied him to an Army/Navy store while he was getting a hunting license. Collecting milsurps and militaria has always been an on again/off again thing with me until about 10 years ago, when the kids were a bit older and didn't require all my attention, all the time. As they found interests outside the home, I renewed my love affair with all this stuff. I still have that bayonet.
shazbot		#117	[-]
Posts: 13 (06/12/09 01:11 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 29 Been shooting since I was 8 or so. Just started collecting military surplus stuff about 3 months ago, collecting old militaria since my grandfather gave me a stack of stuff when I was about 16. All of it came from family members including a bible dating back to the Boer War (english), a massive lighter my great grandfather used in the trenches during WW1, a fuller brush service award (nice pocket watch)and some odds and ends from when my grandfather was in MacArthur's Honor Guard How do I stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer is a gun, and if that don't work use more gun.
kyswede		#118	[-]
Posts: 1 (06/16/09 10:41 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I am 57 and just signed up today. I have been hooked on Swedish Mausers for 20 years. I also have a soft spot for the Swiss K-31,Mosin-Nagant rifles,and Czech firearms. I have an Isreali 98K in .308 cal.(Brno) , a Yugo 24/47,several Mosin-Nagants,and several Swedes. Right now I am putting a Mauser 71/84 together that I have had for about 15 years. Expect to shoot it soon.
Cordite		#119	[-]
Posts: 3 (08/29/09 09:14 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I am 62 and have been involved in the shooting sports since I was a child. Dad used to take me waterfowling and I was allowed to carry an empty shotgun until such time as I was old enough to actually have a shell. I started studying those guns because I couldn't do anything else with them at the time! My father was a Marine lifer so guns were always a part of our lives. I shoot flintlocks also and have recently "worked my way" from an interest in the French and Indian War to the Pacific theater of operations during WWII, which is where the old man was. Been interested all my life and now at a place where I can afford some of these weapons. Bought my first Enfield today.