Old school rifles

Rubone
Never seen one of those Long Tom 410s
How long is barrel?

GunnyUSMC
You’re blessed!
I do believe you can shoot a different one each day of the year without repeating!
I sure wish I was there to help you exercise that herd!
Enjoy

Introduced in 1941 Remington's beautifully built Model 720 was to be their response to Winchester's M-70, but WWII happened and only about 2500 were ever made. At war's end they were replaced by the much cheaper to produce M-721.

NMachine said:

Nice score!

Here is my 1943 in 35 Rem. Wish the butt pad hadn’t been replaced. View attachment 1051834

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Henwood seemed to think these guns had a particularly harsh recoil. I think they have a WIERD recoil, with all that heavy barrel recoiling back and forth. Your 81 looks very nice, and it looks like the pad was expertly installed. The missing original butt plate takes nothing away from the value of the gun. These guns have value as shooters, mostly. I consider guns like these to be quite collectable but rarely extremely valuable. My gun was graded 98% by THE expert in the field, but I have no idea what it is worth. Maybe four figures? No, thanks, Ill keep it and shoot it occasionally.

tark said:

Henwood seemed to think these guns had a particularly harsh recoil. I think they have a WIERD recoil, with all that heavy barrel recoiling back and forth. Your 81 looks very nice, and it looks like the pad was expertly installed. The missing original butt plate takes nothing away from the value of the gun. These guns have value as shooters, mostly. I consider guns like these to be quite collectable but rarely extremely valuable. My gun was graded 98% by THE expert in the field, but I have no idea what it is worth. Maybe four figures? No, thanks, Ill keep it and shoot it occasionally.

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Oh, it’s a shooter alright. I take it to the range a few times a year. It’s easily a 2 MOA gun at 100 yds with open sights. I may us it to fill a doe tag one of these seasons.

A friend has a hundred 'near-mint' milsurp rifles in a large "walk-in" vault, with a security code panel.

He has never tried most of them. His Enfield #4/Mk. 2 is still in the factory paper bag. He knows when to buy certain stocks and when to sell.

The guy looks pretty poor, keeping a Polish P-64 in his jean jacket on every errand.
What also fools people who "judge a book by its cover" is the really old pick-up truck with very faded paint.

Unlike most people, he neither needs nor wants attention, and easily could afford a new Mercedes or large BMW. His modest ego doesn't require any of this, nor to impress other people

Winchester model 63 1936 takedown.

HowieG said:

Did they come complete with Turkish infantry?

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No, but they did come with a lot of cosmoline.

Catpop said:

GunnyUSMC
You’re blessed!
I do believe you can shoot a different one each day of the year without repeating!
I sure wish I was there to help you exercise that herd!
Enjoy

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I bought my first surplus rifle (1916 Spanish Mauser) back in 1985 for $79. The only reason I bought it was because it was chambered in 7.62 NATO, and surplus ammo was dirt cheap.
I bought a few more over the years, but really didn’t start collecting surplus guns until 2007.
My buddy Matt has been down visiting this past week, he’s going home tomorrow, and we’ve been taking inventory of my surplus rifles. I’m down to 172.
Here’s Matt sitting by the fire tonight eating pastalya.

I still have to inventory my surplus handguns and all my other guns.
But to stay on topic here’s my two FR8 carbines.
This was my first one that I bought sight unseen for under $300. It was covered in lacquer when it arrived.


I removed the lacquer and applied a correct finish.

I picked up my second FR8 about four years ago for under $400. I ordered an original FR8 bayonet for it.

Here’s my favorite groundhog hunting rifle. My Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .223 Rem. I’ve had it since 1990.

I like the Schnabel forend of the Winchester Featherweight stock so, when I picked up this old beat up Marlin Little Buckaroo, I reshaped the stock and cut a schnable on the forend.

My Marlin 783 22 Magnum that I picked up for $98 at a pawn shop.
What it looked like when I got it.


What it looks like now

Winchester Model 74 1954 Weaver K4-C3 scope

Offfhand said:

Introduced in 1941 Remington's beautifully built Model 720 was to be their response to Winchester's M-70, but WWII happened and only about 2500 were ever made. At war's end they were replaced by the much cheaper to produce M-721.View attachment 1052051 View attachment 1052052 View attachment 1052053 View attachment 1052054

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One of my dream rifles...

While it isa simple graduation from the Remington Model 30, which was built off of surplus m1917 actions, it us truly beautiful.

A couple more Remington 722's, which sold for $74.95 back in the 1950's The higher priced "B" Grade .257 Roberts at top came with fancy wood and hand checkering. Its Bausch and Lomb variable-X scope cost much more. The scope on the .222 Rem Mag below is Weaver's K-10, which was a varmint hunter's delight in those days.

Here’s my Marlin 1894CS 357 Magnum. I refinished the stock with an oil finish over 20 years ago when I was shooting Cowboy Action matches.

my rem 722,s are in .222 rem-.244 rem.-.257 roberts-.300 sav-.308 win. i sold a few others and i am looking for a decent condition .243.

GunnyUSMC said:

My Marlin 783 22 Magnum that I picked up for $98 at a pawn shop.
What it looked like when I got it.
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What it looks like now
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I am really interested in what you think happened to that stock.

Offfhand said:

A couple more Remington 722's, which sold for $74.95 back in the 1950's The higher priced "B" Grade .257 Roberts at top came with fancy wood and hand checkering. Its Bausch and Lomb variable-X scope cost much more. The scope on the .222 Rem Mag below is Weaver's K-10, which was a varmint hunter's delight in those days. View attachment 1052338 View attachment 1052339 View attachment 1052340 View attachment 1052341

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You sure don't see too many 722 B grade rifles. Nor 257 Roberts. Pre-308, they put out quite a few in 300 Savage. I have and "A" so chambered. I have it set up without a scope and with the iron sights. I had to hunt down the rear sight and the front bead. People would remove that front bead and the rear sight when they added a scope. It's pretty difficult to find that front bead. I had to buy a shot out barrel to get one.

HowieG said:

I am really interested in what you think happened to that stock.

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I’m really not sure about what happened, or what someone was trying to do to the buttstock.


But once I removed the heavy varnish and wood putty, it was easy to see that they didn’t know what they were doing.


It was so bad that I just cut that area out of the stock and patched it with some Walnut.


It appears that the stock had been decorated with brass furniture tacks at some point, but were removed and filled with wood putty. The holes and rings from the tacks were pretty deep. I would have had to sand away a lot of the stock to get rid of the damage, but I decided that I would leave some evidence of the old handiwork as it was part of the rifle’s history.


There was also damage to the forend, side’s and bottom from where tacks had once been.
It was a fun project that took me a couple of weeks to finish up.

Here’s my US model 1917.

GunnyUSMC said:

I’m really not sure about what happened, or what someone was trying to do to the buttstock.
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But once I removed the heavy varnish and wood putty, it was easy to see that they didn’t know what they were doing.
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It was so bad that I just cut that area out of the stock and patched it with some Walnut.
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It appears that the stock had been decorated with brass furniture tacks at some point, but were removed and filled with wood putty. The holes and rings from the tacks were pretty deep. I would have had to sand away a lot of the stock to get rid of the damage, but I decided that I would leave some evidence of the old handiwork as it was part of the rifle’s history.
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There was also damage to the forend, side’s and bottom from where tacks had once been.
It was a fun project that took me a couple of weeks to finish up.

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Oh, I see what was going on. Nice pics. Looks to me like somebody thought this stock was already messed up so they used it for checkering training. Got to learn somehow, right? Nice repair job.

Ignition Override said:

A friend has a hundred 'near-mint' milsurp rifles in a large "walk-in" vault, with a security code panel.

He has never tried most of them. His Enfield #4/Mk. 2 is still in the factory paper bag. He knows when to buy certain stocks and when to sell.

The guy looks pretty poor, keeping a Polish P-64 in his jean jacket on every errand.
What also fools people who "judge a book by its cover" is the really old pick-up truck with very faded paint.

Unlike most people, he neither needs nor wants attention, and easily could afford a new Mercedes or large BMW. His modest ego doesn't require any of this, nor to impress other people

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That's called stealth wealth.

Want to-see Lots of cool rifles owned by just One Guy?

Go to AKFiles:
“General Rifles”, the topic “G-3, FAL” etc.

“Hansellhd” might also have a secured cave.
Oh man…….what dedication.