What's your favorite 3 milsurp rifles to shoot and why ?

All my favorites are bolt actions,
1) No. 4 Mk 1/2 Enfield
2) 1903a3
3) m1917 or its P14 cousin.

Honorable mention, K11 and K31 Swiss.

1. '55 US RIFLE CAL. .30 M1 (Most comfortable/ heaviest stock)
2. '42 US RIFLE CAL. .30 M1 (Most accurate/ VAR Bbl.)
3. Six-digit US RIFLE CAL. .30 M1 (Most Character/ BT-DT)




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In no particular order. M1A, M1 Garand, Swiss K31. Basic handloads for my Mosin was an eye opener showing the gun to be more accurate than I thought it would be. I really enjoy all my surplus guns.

I like shooting all of them. Among my favorites are:
M1 Carbine
M1 Garand
03 and 03A3
No 5 Enfield Jungle Carbine
Brazilian 30.06 Mauser

My list would be:
M1 Garand
No.1 Mk3* SMLE
98k

My M1 carbine, 30/40 Krag, and SKS would be on the list too.

AG 42 ljugman
MAS 49/56
M1 carbine
Garand
SVT 40
Hakkim

Some day I would like to pick up an FN49, Rasheed and a G43 to complete my collection. I should have picked up a SKS when they were $79.

1. Garand (ping)
2. Steyr M95 with downloaded 8x50R handloads (wacking the bolt)


3. P14 (sights)

My favorite to shoot and i don't know why is a mosin nagant. Especially in the winter. Just pretend every steel plate is a kraut helmet.

Garand, Swede Mausers, Finn Mosins... and the other 70 or so milsurps.

M-1 Garand
M-1 Carbine
M-03A3

(Everything US after that has an asterisk for not actually being milsurp; But it does muddy 3rd place with something of a tie between the 601 and m4gery, 4th place is certainly the A2)

Probably the No 4 rifle is next on the list.

Having many kinds and in some cases several of one kind, hard to choose a favorite but I suppose if made to say

Nothing like the feel and sights along with the ping of a Garand
Love the craftmanship of many kinds of Mauser
Love trigger time on a Mosin.

1. 03a4
2. M1D Garand
3. Swede Mauser

The list could go on. And on. And on. There are milsurps I like better than others, but I haven’t found ones yet that I just don’t like. There’s the 1917, the SMLE, the p14, etc, etc.

Garand because Murica and a little because the plink of the last round

Cetme because i think its a beautiful well made rifle

Mas 49/56 because it feels so cool.


Honorable mention : carcano

I have been lucky enough to SHOOT quite a few things that are just out of the question for me to own.

Thompson was fun to shoot....easy heavy and controllable....MP40 got real hot real quick
M2 was a hoot to shoot, same reasons like an M1 Carbine but with a giggle switch.
BAR was fun to shoot, heavy slow easy.

Sadly I doubt I will ever own anything like this....but they are very fun to shoot.

Now stuff I own....

M1 carbine....recoil and me don't get along well anymore
Carcano.....see above.
Third place would be hard to pick, guess MAS 49/56.

I have many of those brought up....Garand, not out of the safe in years....cool but not that cool.

What would I like......

Well want that cold war rifle, that has to be the FAL......the M14 was a huge fail, but the FAL....that thing fought everywhere and in many different countries hands....and for years and years.....and many times against itself....see England in the Falkland islands.

I have shot them, and shot select fire FAL and found that just stupid, there is just something that draws you to the FAL from an historical standpoint.....it just served in so many countries, for decades.

Grumble, I had to settle for the Mas36 bolt actions due to the MAS 49/56 being pretty much gone at decent prices by the time I was ready to acquire one. I really like the 7.5 French as it is a neat cartridge and the MAS semi-autos would be a hoot to fire in that caliber. The cartridge reminds me of a .300 Savage as a cartridge that is no fuss but gets the job done.

boom boom said:

Grumble, I had to settle for the Mas36 bolt actions due to the MAS 49/56 being pretty much gone at decent prices by the time I was ready to acquire one. I really like the 7.5 French as it is a neat cartridge and the MAS semi-autos would be a hoot to fire in that caliber. The cartridge reminds me of a .300 Savage as a cartridge that is no fuss but gets the job done.

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Personally I find the MAS36 to be the best bolt battle rifle ever made.

Now before the hate mail lets think this through....

The bolt has like 3 parts...pretty big parts and a 4yr old can take it apart.

Short of using a hammer once the sights are set they are pretty hard to screw up. If you are shooting at bad guys 300 yards away 1/4 inch one way or the other really does not matter that much.

Everything else in the gun is just so rugged, simple, basic......it is just there.

It was also one of the last if not THE last clean sheet of paper bolt rifle adopted....the French had a chance to look at EVERY other bolt rifle and go we like this, lets make this more simple....bla bla bla.

I really enjoy the 36....and a little use to fixed sights.....just need to remember your Kentucky windage

All you can lay your hands on! How can you only pick three?

Lately, for me, its mostly been the M1 Carbine or an AR or AK of some sort.

When it comes to my favorite, that is hard to say because I like them all.
But when it comes to Mosins, I would have to say that it’s my 1916 Remington M19 that made it’s way back from Finland. It’s rare and soaked with history.
Mausers? I would have to say one of my 1903 Turkish Mausers. The actions are so smooth.
Enfields? I like them all but there’s just something about a No1 MkIII.
There’s something about shooting weapons that have true history. To know what it felt like to shoot these weapons is something special.

someguy2800 said:

My favorite to shoot and i don't know why is a mosin nagant. Especially in the winter. Just pretend every steel plate is a kraut helmet.

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Lmfao you worry me

fpgt72 said:

Personally I find the MAS36 to be the best bolt battle rifle ever made.

Now before the hate mail lets think this through....

The bolt has like 3 parts...pretty big parts and a 4yr old can take it apart.

Short of using a hammer once the sights are set they are pretty hard to screw up. If you are shooting at bad guys 300 yards away 1/4 inch one way or the other really does not matter that much.

Everything else in the gun is just so rugged, simple, basic......it is just there.

It was also one of the last if not THE last clean sheet of paper bolt rifle adopted....the French had a chance to look at EVERY other bolt rifle and go we like this, lets make this more simple....bla bla bla.

I really enjoy the 36....and a little use to fixed sights.....just need to remember your Kentucky windage

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The MAS 36 is a well thought out design in a substantial cartridge and it is pretty much bombproof which is fortunate as the French did not want the field troops messing with them (special security bolts, the sighting system with numbered and lettered backsights, and so on). French arms are interesting in that they have a distinctive innovative design for their perceived needs that more or less discounted what other countries had done. The Mas shares little with the Mauser, Mosin, or Enfield bolt systems in design. Instead, it is more like a updated Berthier/Lebel union than anything. French bolts in each of those rifles are easy to take apart and clean, they share similarities in trigger and sear systems, and fired a substantial military cartridge. The MAS 36 stock bears a great deal of similarity to the 86/93 Lebel in design being two piece with a massive chunk of steel bridging the gap. The magazines and sights are the major difference of the Mas 36 from its predecessors with the magazine being Mauser like and the rear sights which incorporate a rear peep sight for the first time.

M1 Carbine
Any flavor of 8mm Mauser. I just really like the bolt.
SKS

Honorable mention for the Jungle Carbine. And believe it or not, I have yet to shoot a Garand. Somehow that one has slipped through the cracks.

Mosin Bubba said:

And believe it or not, I have yet to shoot a Garand. Somehow that one has slipped through the cracks.

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If you are ever in my area, stop by, and we’ll scratch that off your bucket list.

Most any small ring Mauser, but I'm most partial to Swedes and Chilean's
No4Mk1/2
Krag–Jørgensen

Garand
K-31 / 03-A3 tied for 2nd
Ishapore Jungle carbine / Mosin M44 tied for 3rd

GunnyUSMC said:

When it comes to my favorite, that is hard to say because I like them all.
But when it comes to Mosins, I would have to say that it’s my 1916 Remington M19 that made it’s way back from Finland. It’s rare and soaked with history.
Mausers? I would have to say one of my 1903 Turkish Mausers. The actions are so smooth.
Enfields? I like them all but there’s just something about a No1 MkIII.
There’s something about shooting weapons that have true history. To know what it felt like to shoot these weapons is something special.

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You say that about your american mosin.....my Remington lever left the US, and it is just so much smoother, sharper, more crisp......makes me wonder....at one point did they all work like this....did all american versions work like this.