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Scooter's thread got me wondering: What was your 1st Milsurp? |
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Posts: 3391 (02/24/09 02:53 PM) Forum Site Moderator |
Mine was a Turk from Big 5, in 2001, IIRC. I found this site in an attempt to learn more about that ONE rifle. Boy did I get caught up in it.
Turns out that rifle was a real keeper. Walnut tigerstrpie and ALL matching, nice bore too! |
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Posts: 16151 (02/24/09 07:17 PM) Owner/operator |
Gotta think about this one a bit, it's been a long time ago. brb, must eat supper.
Parallax
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Posts: 1097 (02/24/09 07:40 PM) Veteran member |
1968 (I was 16) ... my maternal grandfather (owned the farm where I now live) gave me the K98k bring-back that one of the family members gave to him after
WWII.
I still have it and it is one of my favorite rifles. Best shot that I ever made with it was on a groundhog at ~150yds over irons that summer or the next. I told my cousin that that tiny brown spot in the grass was a 'hog and he said nope, just one of many scrub cedars ... so I controlled my breathing, concentrated and put a round in his ear. I wish I still had that eyesight ... among other things 
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Posts: 6562 (02/24/09 07:52 PM) Veteran member |
Back in the 1960's it was an Enfield No1 Mk3 hauled out of a barrel in front of the hardware store. A friend got a nice 1891 Argentine Mauser out of the
same barrel that was a surpurb shooter later after cleaning it up. But for several of us kids, including me, anything with the Mauser name was considered an
"enemy rifle" and we were afraid to bring one home, as our dads' would have been pretty displeased with us spending our money on a gun used by
the enemy.
I was out of it for some number of years, but when I got back into it in the mid 1990's, it was again a No.1 Mk3 enfield along with an Ishapore 2A1 purchased at Big 5. Then the next weekend it was a Mosin-Nagant 91-30, then the weekend after that a MN 91-59 and I went crazy from then on. Kept Big 5 in business that first year of my serious collecting. Then I discovered gun shows and back then a gun show was a gun show and had decent prices. So I branched out into SKS rifles of the Russian types and a Mauser or two. In less than three years of serious collecting I had over 70 rifles in my pile. Things started to snowball on me and I would buy up whatever tweaked my eye at the time I saw it. Then in 2003, I got my first C&R License and bought about twenty firearms with it, then suddenly I found myself out of storage space and a serious lack of ammo to keep them fed. So my collecting efforts took a sudden change to gathering up ammunition when I could and trying to get rid of some of the rifles I had that really didn't capture my interest like they did when I bought them on a wild hair. My second C&R License expired the first of this month and looking back thru my bound book, it has only been used a couple times for firearm purchases. The last several years I have concentrated more on obtaining ammo than I have firearms, and with the price and availability of some ammo today, I am glad I made that decision. I am well set with everything right now. Curt |
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Posts: 164 (02/24/09 08:39 PM) active member |
First was a Swedish M96, bought at a sporting goods store for $89.95 about 1998. I had looked at milsurps back in the early '70's, but never took the
plunge, when gun shops still had barrels full of mausers, Krags, Enfields, etc. Too bad.
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Posts: 1027 (02/24/09 08:42 PM) Veteran member |
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
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Posts: 599 (02/24/09 09:32 PM) Veteran member |
I thought it was so cool that you could buy a military rifles in Tysons Corner in 1987. My first was a 96 Swedish mauser followed a couple of weels later by a
No4 Enfield that turned out to be a POF (Pakistan Ordinance Factory) I have never seen another POF marked gun. Got out of the hobby until about 1999 or so
when I discovered my first gun show and at closing grabbed a Balester Molina and a M69 Romanian Trainer.
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Posts: 129 (02/24/09 09:50 PM) active member |
Mid 70's, Woolco department store, 93 Mauser mismatch in 7x57. $48. The headspace was ( I know now) Very excessive from that mismatch bolt. Fortunately, I
couldn't afford much WW ammo at $4.98 a box, so I started another hobby - reloading with a Lee Loader. It was probably a good thing too, If I had tried to
full length resize those bright stretch marked cases, I would have had a lot of case head separations.
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Posts: 5001 (02/24/09 10:14 PM) |
Well my 1rst milsurp was a chopped M95 Oviedo Spanish 7x57 back in the early 70s. The chamber was so bad it had a ridge on the head every case. Many split
after reloading. I didn't know a thing about head space. Just it was a Spanish Mauser. I got rid of it. Then years later the import ban got relaxed and I
found the Turk for 39.00 bucks and a bando of ammo for $2.99. Love at first shot. Now I have makes and models I didn't know about then.
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Posts: 2078 (02/24/09 10:27 PM) |
Swedish Mauser or Finn 28-30. A little later, gobs of Enfields, Turk Mausers (I fondly remember buying a dozen at a time of those and 91/30s...and jumping out
of my skin waiting to get home and get the grease off to see what had been sent!) Later came time for Lugers, M1s, M1 carbines, etc....
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Posts: 437 (02/24/09 10:27 PM) |
couldn't resist a Chilean M95 from SPG back in 1997
didn't need a C&R at the time, but it did get things rolling with my first 03 in 2000, I bought a Japanese T26 off GB and I haven't looked back since Bob |
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Posts: 725 (02/24/09 10:34 PM) |
Mint condition 1891 Argentine Mauser, with bayonet, purchased with paper route money for $13.00 in 1964.
Took me a week after school to get that one clean. I wish I had that back. Eric
"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
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Posts: 542 (02/24/09 10:44 PM) Veteran member |
M1917 Winchester, made December 1918. Purchased 1967. Still have it.
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Posts: 537 (02/24/09 11:47 PM) active member |
The first milsurp I bought was a 7.65 Mauser, Belgium Army M1935, while waiting for my first C&R to be approved.
I had visited the VA in Salisbury, NC that day and my Rozeann and I went 'window shopping' downtown afterwards. I stopped in at a small gun shop there and asked to see the few military rifles he had in his racks. One rifle, what looked to be a pretty beat-up Spanish 7mm Mauser had a small appeal for me, but the Belgium, beat stock but just about perfect metal, with a mint bore yelled "buy me", so I did! It didn't help that the rifle was twice as expensive as the "excellent" MNs, and Mausers available from AIM and others at the time; Yugo SKS were still 79.00 in shooter grades, but like I said, the rifle just spoke to me. At first I was going to put it on layaway, but as I filled out the paperwork, I took the decision to take it home that day and there it was, my first milsurp, but by no means the last!
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~ Thomas Jefferson ~
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity". - Albert Einstein WANTED - Lee Loaders - .223, 6.5 Swede Mauser, 7.5 Swiss, 7.62x39, 7.62x54r, .308 Win, .303 Brit, 7.7 WANTED- Turkey and Goose feathers for fletching arrows |
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Posts: 2464 (02/25/09 08:21 AM) Host |
My first was a 1,945,000 M1 rifle w/ original barrel. I ran across it in a local shop. I paid $550 for it, which was a lot for a college student in '97. It
came with an old ratty DCM box. I had never fired centerfire rifles much, but at 300 yards off a bench, I could hit a 2 liter bottle w/ it about every shot.
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Posts: 99 (02/25/09 08:37 AM) active member |
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...
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Posts: 115 (02/25/09 06:57 PM) |
1906 Swedish Mauser from a "Gibsons" store my wife was working at as a pharmacist. Store is long closed but I still have that rifle!
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Posts: 4861 (02/25/09 08:36 PM) Host |
Mine was an M1 rifle my friend mentioned to me he had and maybe wanted to sell. I quickly bought. I paid him $500 and I found out he had offered it to a mutual friend for $400. Great friend. "What happened? What the HELL happened?" Jake Holman "The Sandpebbles" |
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The bug got me with a brand-new Chinese Norinco SKS in 1991, with the screw-in (not pinned) barrel and blade bayonet for $89.99 at a gun show. BUT, those were
actually made for the civilian market, not the Chinese military, so... the first real surplus milsurp was an
Indian Ishapore Enfield 2A in 7.62-NATO that I got in 1993 for the paltry sum of $79.99 from Centerfire Systems.
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Posts: 1882 (02/25/09 11:33 PM) |
1917 Erfurt Luger with poor bore, mismatched sideplate and no disassembly latch spring. bought in 1952 Somewhere along the line I've parted company with
it.
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Posts: 121 (02/26/09 12:03 PM) |
Mint condition M-44 carbine. Paid $ 95 for it at a local gunshop,still in factory wrap.Got a spam can of ammo for for a few bucks more. Scared the hell out of
the remchester boys the first time I took it to the range. It was starting to get dark,and that fireball coming out of the muzzle caught their eye. Kicks like
a mule,but I still shoot it.
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