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Yeah, we just like to pick on her. She's actually a decent shot.

My maternal grandfather ran a pool hall near Camp Lejuene in the 70's and 80's, and he carried an old Saturday Night Special for as long as we can remember. Every once in awhile, when the young Marines got rowdy he'd brandish it a bit and run them off. I only ever saw him shoot it a hand full...

So, Cullen i Yeah that tickles me too. The ex-sniper really only adds a slight cool factor, even though people do pay prices like that. It blows my mind.

In theory, the .308 and the 7.62x51 should be interchangeable. There is, however, a difference in the maximum chamber pressure of about 10,000 psi between the two, with the civilian .308 being the higher, and with brass that's less thick than the NATO round. I wouldn't run .308 through it, just...

It really comes down to the terrain you're going to be hunting in (deep brush or open range), price point (at $2.30 a round can you really afford 300 WSM?) and preference (light weight, light recoil, kicks like a mule, etc.) I would never spend a grand on a rifle for someone who had never...

Likewise...and yes, Tula did make fewer rifles, but Izhevsk on the whole made fewer hex receivers, and fewer overall variants from what I understand.

I know right? It's insane.

I had a hunter's safety course when I was a teen, and then firearms training at Parris Island while going through USMC boot camp. Also, a fifth generation Marine here, so it was ritualistically and thoroughly beaten into my head from the time I could carry a weapon.

Okay, so...you have a really nice, good looking, refurb Izhevsk rifle, refurbished by 7th GRAU Arsenal at Riga. Izhevsk stopped producing hex receivers in 1935, since your rifle is dated 1935, yours is likely an earlier receiver, and not a replacement. Your rifle is most likely either an...

Indeed...I'm curious to see it myself. Numbers matching? Is it arsenal refinished?

That is a healthy fear to have really, because I don't sense an end to the idiocy over there any time soon. Memphis has it's share as well from the opposite end of the spectrum

Definitely the pair of NAA-22S's that I inherited from my ex- FIL who had proudly dubbed them "righty and lefty." Though there are some fond memories with these two oftly brandished and ill-aimed little things, they just don't serve much of a purpose at all.

Unless you count a pitiful EM- GE I bought yesterday for 2 bucks, then no.

Yep, and I would dare say that many of us bought a couple of them at a time at that price. It's a saturated market, as someone else has already said. I currently have three in the back room and to be honest, they will just keep on collecting dust alongside the Arisakas until it's time to make...

Ooooh Rah! Thank you for your family's service.

A list is always helpful. If I may suggest, make several copies to disperse to family members and keep one with your Will. I have discovered such lists in the middle of a sale or even after the sale has concluded. The family had simply forgotten about them, or misplaced them. Lol, my wife is...

Some guys have all the luck, lol. I haven't found anything that nice on an estate yet, but fingers crossed. I must say though, I think a lot of folks would be shocked to discover just how often these little old ladies hand me firearms and say that they don't want anything to do with them. I...

Certainly! When we do an estate sale for a client, 9 times out of 10, it's related to a death in the family. In my particular area, we have a lot of elderly folks staying on the same family farm for a couple of generations. I wish every estate sale was chock full of good ole' antiques, but most...

So, I'm currently working an estate sale for the daughter of a WWII veteran. Ive been in this business long enough to safely say that at least 95% of the time these old veterans will have a least a couple of guns stashed somewhere. But so far we hadn't found any firearms of any kind until today...