Old war horses

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Russia, Japan, Italy or some other minor player?

Todd.

Those are nice. Thanks for sharing.

Robert said:

The K98 was my first rifle. I got it when I was 17. I have shot it enough that I can hit jack rabbits at 400m with the iron sights.

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Jack rabbits and 8mm ...

I can hear my Momma yelling now,,,
"Get those da**ed oily things off my couch!"

indy1919a4 said:

Jack rabbits and 8mm ...

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Back in the mid 60's my K-98 and 5-cents a round milsurp ammo,,,
Handily ended the lives of many hundreds of rats at the old town dump on the south side of Okie City.

Not sure I could have done it at 400 yards though.

Aarond

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Same idea, different generation:

Swedish Mauser 6.5x55 - 1905
'03 Springfield - 1917
P17 Enfield 30-06 - 1918
SMLE .303, - circa mid thirties
They all are as issued. Not the best looking but they all work perfectly and shoot better than I can.

My Garands are late 40s or early 50s but not as issued since the CMP did their usual great job bringing them up to safe spec. The latest is essentially a new rifle with NOS stock and barrel.

The quality of these old warhorses (love that term) is astonishing. No scopes needed. The iron sights are excellent. If I didn't have any modern rifles, I would still consider myself well armed.

Jeff

Cool thread here. There's a few around here that qualify for "old war horse" status. One of which is a K98. This is one of the post war Yugoslavian reworks, designated as so by the stamping on the left side of the receiver ring, with "PREDUZECE 44" designating the factory that scrubbed most of the German markings off and rebarreled it, ( same barrel and 8x57 chambering, just a new barrel), and put it into one of the laminated stocks that Germany developed when stock blanks began to get scarce. I've had this since 1997 and it sees nothing other than handloads, and actually had a scout scope on it in a no gunsmithing mount for about 10 years before it got put back to the way I got it a couple years ago. Shoots good and the 8x57 Mauser is a handloaders cartridge IMHO. Here's nowadays :
... ... and back in the scout scope days out hunting : .

Robert said:

I want a P-14 and P-17 for my WWI collection.

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Top is a Winchester P14 or No. 3, mk. 1* with a replica sling. The bottom is an Eddystone 1917 rifle. Both are restorations.

A closeup or two. Bottom 1917 rifle is parkerized during a WWII refurb apparently and has a High Standard barrel.

Some Enfields that I have rescued. Need to get around to color matching the handguards one of these days. The No. 1 was in miserable shape with a thoroughly filthy bore, crappy green paint, a bubbaized forend, and missing the magazine. The No. 4, Mk 1/3* was a barrelled receiver and required bolt fitting and the magazine is a replica from Sarco. Still have some fitting on the butt end as the No. 4 used the No. 4 Mk. 2 forend and Numrich's forends that were NOS had some issues. The draws are fitted just fine but have to do a bit more fitting around the butt stock which is also a replacement. Barrel and chamber though on this Longbranch 1952 refurb is practically new and the headspace is darn near perfect.

I had all of my long guns out last week for a rust check-over, bore cleaning/oiling and outer steel wipe-down,etc. I should've taken individual pics while I was at it.

My WWII war horses are two S.A. M1 Garands (One is a CMP gun that's well Parkerized and with a Boyds stock so it looks ready-to-be-issued, the other Garand my Dad had made into a jeweled bolt, polished hi-gloss stock and blued steel parade gun), A Saginaw SG M1 Carbine and a Savage-made 1941 Lend-Lease No 4 Mk 1* Enfield. I have a post-war 7.92mm Mauser K98k made by CZ that's pretty darn close to mil-surp WWII stuff, but the large-bow trigger guard shows it isn't WWII vintage immediately. (Sadly the Lion crest was scrubbed off the receiver. For a long time I thought this was a Nazi proof that was ground off but later research showed it wasn't even made until after the war )

Anytime I see older guns like these I wish I could hear their stories... and that's certainly true of these WWII veterans in my safe.

Stay safe .

These probably saw combat, so I consider them "old war horses"-

1918 SA M1903
1917 Eddystone M1917
1943 SA M1 Garand
1943 Inland M1 Carbine
Type 99 Arisaka
1917 DWM Luger

These may have seen some combat-

1918 Ishapore No1Mk3
1943 Remington M1903a3
1944 Astra A600

Robert said:

Three of my prized rifles are all from WW2. While far from perfect they are all special to me and fun to shoot.
Topto bottom:
K98 dou 1944
No1 MkIII* Lithgow 1941
1903 Remington12-41

The K98 was my first rifle. I got it when I was 17. I have shot it enough that I can hit jack rabbits at 400m with the iron sights. The Lithgow is a rifle I picked up for WWI and II reenactment. I wanted to do Australia and happened across an Australian rifle and bayonet. The 1903 was purchased by my father in the late 60's out of a barrel for something like $25.

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Love the Lithgow!