Scooter's thread got me wondering: What was your 1st Milsurp?

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NC Cruffler		#21	[-]
Posts: 479 (02/26/09 02:03 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	A 1917 8mm Mauser engineer's carbine made at Spandau I bought in 1973. I still have it and have only seen one other like it since. Dave Dave Green, NRA Life Member since 1973
Pastoocha	The year....1989	#22	[-]
Posts: 211 (02/26/09 08:28 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The rifle..a Mk4#1 Maltby....bought it to hang on wall. discovered Tuco's forums and took it down to shoot....the rest is history...Really enjoyed the second golden era of milsurps....up to around 03 or 04 when the river of rifles started to dry up and all the variant's had been represented...Checked the "box" yesterday and all I had was an even dozen...all the best shooters from the collector period...now I am back into shootin at least once a week and enjoying it even more.. ArtinSC all yaneed is love and a .45
JTB1967		#23	[-]
Posts: 678 (02/26/09 09:27 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Mine was a Turk from SOG. If I remember correctly, they were $39.99 with a bayonet included.
tep0583		#24	[-]
Posts: 475 (02/27/09 08:21 AM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Chinese SKS.
el buzz		#25	[-]
Posts: 15 (02/28/09 12:06 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Number One: while rooting at a garage sale around 1987, I asked the lady if she had any guns (just an impulse...after that, I have never failed to ask). She led me to the den closet and told me her husband had "Brung this home from the war." A really cherry ca. 1943 Tokyo-made Arisaka Type 99 with a bayonet, scabbard & frog. The mum was intact, bore shiny, nice stock (no duffel cut); all the desirable stuff. I gave her two twenty dollar bills after she asked for one. Then: she showed me an old sepia-toned snapshot of a couple of kids under some palms, both tee-shirted and hefting rifles with bayonets mounted. A Japanese flag was spread on the ground. Of course, one was her late husband holding my Arisaka. I regret that I didn't arrange to copy that photo. In the mid 80's many scoffed at Jap rifles and I was informed, with great authority, by a Mauser enthusiast I worked with, that I would have the bolt impaled in my skull with the first shot. At a friend's farm, I tied the thing to a spare tire and ran a clothesline cord from the trigger to a nearby sapling and around to a spot behind my truck. The round pulverized a cinder block 100 feet away. Best shot I've ever made with it-! That Type 99 is a real hoot to fire but the ammo is mighty precious. One of these days I'll grab a Type 38.
Crunch130		#26	[-]
Posts: 824 (02/28/09 08:34 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	In 2002 I bought an M48A. Got all hyped after reading a magazine article (some survivalist mag someone gave me) about Mitchell's Mausers. However, no local FFL's wanted to receive an order for a reasonable price. So I found an excellent M48A at a local shop with all accessories and a nice walnut stock for about $220. Sweet rifle that shot outstanding. Eventually I bought an Israeli K98. Then I got a C&R license. Then I got an RC K98, so I sold the Yugo. Have bought 4 SMLE's since then (kept 1), a CMP Garand, and a Swede M38. Also a couple Mossberg M44's. Crunch
nothernug		#27	[-]
Posts: 11226 (02/28/09 11:09 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Aubullet wrote: An 1891 Arg. that was given me as a replacement for the 1895 Chilean that I had originally ordered, but was indefinitely backordered. It was a great shooter in pretty good shape, so I was happy as the Chilean that my freind got was a real beater. That was sometime back in the mid-70's, but the stage for my collecting was actually set by Val Forgett's Navy Arms Co. reproductions, when I discovered and bought the 1851 Colt Navy and Zouave, back in the mid-60's One of those Zouaves was the first gun I bought for myself except that was early 70s. I was bagging groceries for a $1.00 an hour, scrimped and saved for 6 months to shell out $126. (That got me the rifle, powder, caps, cleaning rod & some tips, a modified powder can cap with a pistol cartridge soldered on for a pour spout, and a few other odds and ends I no longer recall. Oh. And $5. to my Dad for gas for driving me out to the place. (It was a fair distance away and dad didn't trust either me or my old Chevelle to make the trip alone.) But my first "milsurp"? Define, 'first.' My first C&R but not a milsurp was an old beater, wall hanger Spanish .43 Remington Rolling Block dad gave me to 'play' with when I was about 15. I'm afraid I put varnish on the stock to make it 'look better.' About 15 years ago, I bought a model 1916 Mexican carbine (I think it was) with the intention of, uhh, sporterizing it. But it just didn't seem right and I never did. Now 'first' as in starting to collect them, specifically, that was a Mitchell's M98/48 that was no German rifle, ever, but a Yugo M48bo. (and I had been looking forward to that crest, too). That was for my 13th anniversary and we just celebrated 20. Only this time it's no rifle but a Longbow that I haven't gotten yet. So to define 'first' as the start of collecting these, it'd be that M48bo. Val Forgett helped many a lad down this long road I'd say. Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie until you can find a rock. Will Rogers Last Edited By: nothernug 03/01/09 01:36 AM. Edited 1 times.
Cisco		#28	[-]
Posts: 1882 (03/01/09 02:13 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	M-48 Mauser I bought at Sunset Sports Center for right around $119 as I remember. I still have it and it is a good shooter although I haven't shot in 2 or 3 years. Paul in Eastern WA
ballcap57		#29	[-]
Posts: 403 (03/01/09 02:34 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	39 dollar Turks, been all downhill or uphill, however you choose to look at it. Wouldn't change it a bit for all the friendship and experiences.
ThePitbullofLove		#30	[-]
Posts: 6485 (03/01/09 03:18 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	this one... Life is the crummiest book I ever read, there isn't a hook; Just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up...
ThePitbullofLove		#31	[-]
Posts: 6486 (03/01/09 03:22 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	PitbullsDad wrote: Back in 1966, I bought an Enfield #5 Mk1 Jungle Carbine, soon to be followed by a Nazi Army model HSC Mauser. I currently have neither; when the boys later came along and began to toddle, Mom requested that I sell them (the firearms) for safety sake........neither the Pit nor the Bro have ever gotten over it and never fail to remind the old man of what I had done... You ^%#@ Life is the crummiest book I ever read, there isn't a hook; Just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up...
stantheman1986	1st of many!	#32	[-]
Posts: 5343 (03/01/09 05:17 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Technically the first "mil surp" I fired was a commercial Norinco SKS my Dad bought back in 1991 or so, new for abut $80. Still got that one too, it's a rattle trap but shoots well. My first "military type" weapon that I got to actually "own and care for" was an Armi San Marco repro Colt 1860 Army ordered from Gander Mt. mail order way back in the early 90's. It broke back in 2000 or so and I didn't have the knowledge at the time to fix it, so I got rid of it, but I fired it a lot. I have since gotten back into the BP percussion revolvers in a big way, I always say I owe it to that ASM repro for getting me started on it, since I recently quickly got a "mini collection" of both Pietta's and Uberti's. Back in 2000 I asked my Dad to buy me a rifle, when I was 20 and I was a sophomore in college. I didn't have my FID card yet and didn't even know what a C&R was. From looking through the pages of SGN I had the need for a military rifle. Went to a gun shop in Woodbridge, NJ where my grandma lived, and they had a pretty nice selection of milsurps. I picked out a 1909 Argy "Mountain" carbine, which I later found out was a Gibbs "importer refurb" and had the bolt buffed, stock shellaced etc. A pretty rifle though. I shot it lots with surplus crappy FMMAP 7.65. I just recently sold it, but the wide-arc bent bolt and magazine live on right now in the 1909 Argy long rifle parts gun I bought that needed a bolt and mag. I got 20 rounds of surplus with the rifle and took it to college with me, and kept it in my room in case I found somewhere to shoot. I never did, but later put a lot of rounds through it, the first milsurp I did a lot of shooting with. A few months later when I got my FID card I took the old man to another gun shop and bought a refurb M38 Mosin. Lovely shooter, sticky bolt though, I still have that one and never plan to sell it. So, the M38 was the first rifle I bought with my FID card.
HoosierDaddy		#33	[-]
Posts: 5375 (03/01/09 06:41 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	PitbullsDad wrote: Back in 1966, I bought an Enfield #5 Mk1 Jungle Carbine, soon to be followed by a Nazi Army model HSC Mauser. I currently have neither; when the boys later came along and began to toddle, Mom requested that I sell them (the firearms) for safety sake........neither the Pit nor the Bro have ever gotten over it and never fail to remind the old man of what I had done... Should have sold the boys Ash Iron Construction
ThePitbullofLove		#34	[-]
Posts: 6487 (03/02/09 12:07 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Life is the crummiest book I ever read, there isn't a hook; Just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up...
Renfield54		#35	[-]
Posts: 394 (03/02/09 01:40 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	1947 M44.....back in 2003... "Dusty old helmet.....Rusty old gun......They sit in the corner and wait" ~Audie Murphy--1925-1971~
pks719	First milsurp	#36	[-]
Posts: 1 (03/07/09 01:16 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	My first one was an Ariska type 99 in 7.7, was an 8th grade graduation gift from my dad. He paid $25.00 for it in 1970 was in perfect condition and still shoots great.
6cylrider98		#37	[-]
Posts: 558 (03/08/09 08:40 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	After the big D, and got my life back on track, it was ME time, so I got a DCM AR15. That did it, got the C&R and saw the Mich, M48 thing and got 2. Sold one to a close friend, wasnt going donw by myself. This was 04,didnt pay big bucks @220 I think. The first show we went to took home 6! Now at @ 70 space is getting tight as are the $$. Trying to get one of each,. Doug. but that hasnt happened yet. Show next weekend too.
69396	First CR rifle	#38	[-]
Posts: 801 (03/09/09 10:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Like so many others---the old 1891 Argentine Mauser. $19.95 back in 1962 from Ye Olde Hunter. The aluminum handled bayo was $1.95. Stiil have both. Also have a Lyman Ammunition Maker reloading kit in 7.65. My younger brother bought a 95 Chilean for I think $12.95. We may have been the most heavily armed 13 and 11 year old boys in Georgia.
mhb	So far as I can recall...	#39	[-]
Posts: 432 (03/11/09 12:21 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	a very nice 1884 trapdoor in 1963. Next one was a mint-condition 1891 Argentine Mauser in 1964. Many others of many types since. mhb - Mike
Highpower		#40	[-]
Posts: 950 (03/14/09 03:49 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Circa 1986..... and still have it of course. My "one per lifetime" DCM Garand. --------------------------- He who lives by the sword, should go out and get a really nice sword.