someguy2800
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My least favorite safety is actually the 3 position mauser. It’s just always awkward to actuate for me.
Actually the Carcano would be a more favorite of mine if Prvi loaded their ammo to correct diameter specs, only Hornandy does but it is $1.75 a shot, so the Carcano is a reloaders gun in terms of cost reduction in shooting. However the Carcano is capable of very good to excellent accuracy and is a light weight and well balanced rifle, the carbines have crude sights though.
I would enjoy the French MAS more if windage was adjustable both of mine shoot to far to the side of the bulls.
Here are targets I did with one of my Carcano 91/41, it shoots high using conventional sighting but as you can see Hornandy grouped good while Prvi was all over some hitting the lower target and some hitting the higher target when all shots were sighted in to 6 o clock on the lower bulls.
The French did not trust their troops to monkey with the firearms and so used special security screws etc. The rifles were sighted at the arsenal with numbered and lettered backsight apertures tailored to each specific rifle.
This post by Lebel1886 on milsurps.com decodes the back sight ap needed to correct the sights for windage etc. https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=4479
Strong words, but weren't the early Type 99s considered to be really nice guns? Later last ditch stuff was dicey so I hear but the late 30s was a pretty good time for Japanese gun smiths weren't they?
I guess that I'm a heretic.
I like all of the milsurps, including the ones that challenge me to wring their best out of them.
I love finding out more about their histories and their quirks.
I enjoy repairing and preserving them.
I enjoy learning to properly reload for them.
Why, I even enjoy shooting most of them!
Yup - for a time it was THE premier surplus to build magnum rifles out of. One of the Japanese rifles - regardless their legacy, deserved or otherwise - was also highly regarded for this.A 1917 unsafe for full power 30-06?????? My 1917 has the biggest strongest action of any mil-surp I own. Due to the weight and sportster stock on mine it is a much nicer shooter than my 03A3 and plenty accurate with the military barrel. I can see not wanting the excessive weight of a 1917 for a hunting rifle... the thing is a beast!
That is the proper operation, but it's still years behind everything except the Mosin.
I find the M44 to be a great beater for pushing wild boar thru the brush. Not so hot when there are a few doizen of them, tho. Bit a great brush gun all the same.I deer hunted with my brother's m44 when I was 11. I chose to carry it without a round in the chamber because it was faster than working the safety.
Then go puke somewhere else.True because you don't need some idiot messing with the sights.....half the soldiers did not understand it anyway....they will mess it up.
So unless the rifle gets damaged you are not going to need to mess with the sights anyway to hit the human sized target at under 300 yards.
So much clueless in this thread it is making me sick.
Same here.Combloc rifles.
I’ve never had a desire to own any of them
I don't have any experience with the .257 conversions on the 6.5japs, all of mine have been t99s and cartridges being .284 based.For the poster that had issues with the Japanese that was rechambered to .257 Roberts, that is part of the accuracy problem. Assuming that it was not rebarrelled or the chamber reamer was used improperly, the rifle is probably the 6.5x257 wildcat (see http://www.angelfire.com/realm/cruffler/Pages/6_5x257_roberts.htm) which is NOT the same as the 6.5 x 57 Mauser used in Euro lands. There is quite a bit about tuning and reloading for this round if you want to look around for it on the interwebz and the general gist is that it requires tuned reloading to get its best and the accuracy of course will be shoddy with factory Roberts ammo with a .257 bullet skidding down the bore. @LoonWulf may have one of these conversions and be able to speak about reloading for them.
1895 Argentine Mauser (Chilean Mauser maybe???). I remember when the Chilean Mausers (arsenal converted????) to .308 were available for cheap. I thought I should have picked one up... something else was more important at the time.
Is it a heavier receiver than the 1917 receiver? All of my mauser actions are nice smooth operation actions but I haven't come across one with more steel than a 1917... that doesn't mean they don't exist though. I remember the Chilean Mausers being touted as very strong Mauser actions with very good metalurgy.
Then go puke somewhere else.
The question was not "Please provide a brief synopsis of the relative attributional value of various technical features found on 20th Century military small arms and the usage of such by the average conscript soldier in infantry operations."
It was "Which is YOUR least favorite and why?"
The question was subjective. I could have a room full of the finest bespoke Safari rifles and ask you which is YOUR least favorite. And I wouldnt judge you for your reasoning.
Rather than berate the other forum members for their "clueless," how about providing constructive examples of why you find those features necessary, useful, or desirable for the collector/ shooter in 2020.
Or simply keep your opinions to yourself if you cant be positive or respectful.
I took a few minutes to upload some photos....I am still new at that took me a few minutes.
As this usually goes back to the Mosin's I stuck up a photo of the last one I got.....it hits a few marks here in the sight department....why does someone in 2020 want a rifle marked out in arshins.....because (I) see it as cool....it is interesting to (ME)....and a few other people as well. Why does someone want a Chilean mauser in some not common flavor....because I find them interesting.....
*The question* was "Which is YOUR least favorite and why *is it your least favorite*?"
The question was subjective.
Well, if you don't mind a project, Gunbroker has a bunch of T53 barreled actions with bolts, and some even have the bayonets on them, for $180.Saw one listed by someone down the block from me on armslist a few weeks ago and i'm kicking myself for not having the money to have run down the street in my robe and slippers with a loose handful of cash