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I just really started to get into shooting last year. This year I'm really getting into it, so I'm working on building up the collection.

From left to right:
Ruger 10/22 with a Bushnell scope.
Ruger Mini 14
Irwin Pedersen M1 carbine, (saw service in the Pacific)
K31
Mosin 91/30
FN49 from Argentina (needs TLC, but its a solid rifle, the barrel is like new. Its going to be pretty when I'm done with it.)
Sig SCM, (slowly getting turned into a proper 550, I need to swap out lowers next.)
Russian Makarov
Springfield 1911 Mil Spec

Next I'm looking to add in no real order:
AK74
DSA Fal
FN Scar
SVT40
G43
K98
 

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That collection isn't exactly "modest!" And, you've been interested in shooting for a year? By the time I'd been shooting for eight years, my collection numbered seven (college and the U.S.M.C. did adversely affect my collecing).
I confess to a twinge of jealousy when I saw your Argentine SAFN.
And, you have an Irwin Pederson carbine.
I hope you're aware that Irwin Pederson produced the fewest carbines of any of the ten companies that contracted with the government during WWII. Many long-time military collectors have been unable to find a decent one. The Standard Catalog of Military Firearms lists one in NRA VG condition at $2200 (that's higher than any other make of M1 carbine in NRA Excellent condition).
Congratulations on your very fine guns!
 
Very nice start. I bet if you come back to this post in a few years it well have increased to 20 or more fire arms. Just buying a few guns a year really adds up over the years.
 
How do you know your carbine was in the Pacific?
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My grandfather used it in the Pacific and Japan. I guess technicaly its still US Government property.;) He got to keep it when he got back thanks to some super lazy MP's. All numbers matching to...every single part is stamped IP.


The FN49 is currently sick with a broke firing pin, I need to get it going again. But when it does shoot its a damn fine shooting rifle.


Thanks guys, I'm slowly adding to it. I'm going to add a lot slower now I'm probably done buying for this year.
 
dont think you need that crummy IP carbine, you should sell it to me, I've got the first run "I" cut IP highwood stock for it
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It does need a stock, you really don't need that IP stock do you...you could send it to me if you want.:D


Grandpa decided to varnish the stock about 20 years ago...that was a mistake. So now I'm torn if I want to simply strip it and refinish it with whatever they came with on the wood, or replace it. I rather not replace it since its original to the rifle, and has the PO's initials carved into it, along with a few tick marks.


I know refinishing is stronly frowned upon, but I think in this case its more of a restoration since the damage has already been done.
 
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My grandfather used it in the Pacific and Japan. I guess technicaly its still US Government property. He got to keep it when he got back thanks to some super lazy MP's. All numbers matching to...every single part is stamped IP.
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Man, thats really cool.
 
Throw in a lever action 30-30, a 12 gauge and a good .357 revolver and your collection would be about complete.
 
Thanks, an SKS would be nice, I need a K11 as well.

20th century military rifles/pistols are pretty much what interests me. At this point I don't see buying much else, although I do need a shotgun. Probably a Mossberg 590A1...
 
UN-Finish The Stock

Get a Formby Refinishing Kit ( http://www.formbys.com/products/refinisher.cfm ), or a comparable generic, and simply use the stripper solvent to remove the varnish, LIGHTLY with 4-0 steel-wool, and you will have a nice looking stock. I have done several GI stocks with it and you cannot tell them from original after a couple of months (old oak furniture, too). I used it with a carbine stock that got varnished or somethinged years back, and it looks as good as the NPM stock on my DCM QHMC. All it does is remove the old finish, no staining or anything left after use (except traces of the original finish). I have been using it with great results since 1970 when Homer used to show up on TV advertising it. Everything he said was true, in a monumental deviation from the usual...

"Try it, you'll like it!" :D
 
WOW Hatterasguy nice collection

ive been shooting for a while and im no where near that many

nice choices on your "short list" my short list has grown to something like 7 guns with the long list putting me in a permenant state of finantial whoa lol

happy shooting
 
Maj Dad what do you put on the stock after you strip it? Didn't they oil them from the factory?
 
Hatterasguy, I oiled some with raw and some with boiled/processed/whatever tung oil, some with boiled linseed oil, and some I left as is - the de-finishing process isn't a total stripping, and leaving the resultant finish to sit a bit and evaluate is a wise move. Wait a little and decide after you see what the results are. GI Garands were dipped in tung oil way back after linseed oil became hard to obtain.
 
good luck on that G43. Things definitely aren't easy to come by...
 
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