How bad is your case of milsurp "sickness"

[Gator]

I think I'm in remission, I have sold about half my milsurps and am down to a couple dozen.

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

Jagd,

Do you really need to bring my weaknesses to my attention??:banghead:

 

[CU74]

If there is a problem here I sure don't see it. I'm only averaging two C&R guns per month. How can that be a "sickness"?

 

[boerseun]

My deer rifle is a 1945 Mosin Nagant M44 - with Bayonet still attached and original sights. Does that mean anything? Oh yeah, I have empty "spam cans" littering my garage and I'm on first name terms with some of the folks at AIM Surplus

 

[Roadkill]

Enjoy - I have close ups of most of it if ya'll interetsed.

 

[lionking]

Do you walk past tables full of shiney new rifles at a gun show with nary a second glance, searching for the next special "relic" to add to your collection?
YES!
Do you have stacks of books dedicated to the subject?
One Canfield book,the rest from the internet....
Are you up to date on the current availability of firearms and ammo?
pretty much
Would you rather buy three or four old rifles rather than one new RemChesterby?
YES!

anybody that has seen of my starter threads knows I dig milsurps...just sent out for my c&r license and finally am joining the CMP.

I do like new model guns also,I like all guns.

 

[fal 4 me]

I'm currently on my second attack. The first hit when I was young with an M-1 Garand for my first centerfire rifle. High School and college put it in remission, and sold the M-1:banghead::banghead::banghead: The second attack started a few years back, and I can feel it getting worse. While it's only been rifles so far, the "sickness" is growing stronger and I think I'm about to purchase my first surplus handgun. I'm looking at the CZ-82, or maybe CZ-52 plus and after market 9mm barrel.

 

[ohioarmedneutrality]

You guys are having a very bad effect on me. Just when I thought I had enough for the time being, now you got me all fired up again. I hear an SKS somewhere whispering my name. GRRRRRRRRR!

 

[cracked butt]

I'm looking at the CZ-82, or maybe CZ-52 plus and after market 9mm barrel.

I've been wanting a cz-52 for a long time, but I never got around to ordering one, the 9mm barrels might be the tipping point for me.

 

[cracked butt]

Here's my latest milsurp 'fix' that I got from AIM 2 weeks ago. I don't have ammo for it and haven't cleaned it yet, I'm getting to be pathetic.

 

[alamo]

Wow. Roadkill has an amazing collection. Very impressive.

 

[cracked butt]

Wow. Roadkill has an amazing collection. Very impressive.

He's terminal and beyond help- Helmets, canteens, cots. Pretty awesome.

 

[SURVIVAL]

I Cant Get Enough Of Those Turkish Mausers. It Seems Every Time I See One I Cant Resist The Temptation To Buy It.

 

[BsChoy]

In the past year and a half I have purchased in order a K98, M1 Garand, M91/30, and Swede M-38. I think I have the bug but, because almost every Jap Type 38 or 99 I have seen looks like it took a one way trip down the face of Suribachi and the Enfields don't do much for me asthetically, so I don't want any of those weapons. I could really love a 1903A3 however if someone wants to donate to my disease...uh I mean collection!

 

[azhunter12]

I thought that my addiction was getting bad but now it looks pretty good.

 

[jrfoxx]

Do you walk past tables full of shiney new rifles at a gun show with nary a second glance, searching for the next special "relic" to add to your collection?
Yes
Do you have stacks of books dedicated to the subject?
Yes
Are you up to date on the current availability of firearms and ammo?
Yes
Would you rather buy three or four old rifles rather than one new RemChesterby?
Most definitely YES, yes, yes!
Milsurps just have so much history,character,style and soul.Modern production guns are just blah to me.(this really only applies to rifles for me though, modern handguns are different for some reason. I lie modern ones nd milsurps equally).Only reason I have any rifles that aren't milsurp is because they were given to me by my father, and I use them for hunting because ammo selection is better, they are more consistant in accuracy, and generaly a LOT lighter.That said, if they hadnt been given to me, I wouldn't have bought them even for hunting, I would have just used one of my milsurps instead.The only exception is my Wasr-10, .22's and .22 magnum.Those I like for really cheap plinking and some small game hunting, and there's just something aout the litle .22's tat are fun and relaxing to shoot.Probly the lack of recoil, and no very loud.They also sort of make me feel like a kid againwhen I'm shootng them.

My Milsurps
Savage Enfied no. 4 Mk I
M1 Garand
Turk Mauser 1893
Chinese type 53
Norinco sks-m
Russian sks
cz-52
Nagant 1895 revolver
Swiss K-31
Russian M44

other C&R's
Iver Johnson 2nd model
Galesi .25acp mousegun
Astra 600

 

[oneshooter]

Bad enough that I just bought a Turkish Mauser, and don't even know why! Oh LOOK, Theres a Turckish Mauser CARBINE for sale!! I wonder if Loving Wife will notice?

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas


Speaking of Turks, what bayonet do they use?

 

[dstorm1911]

Well after 34 years...... just hit 2300 in the rifle vaults, and heres where I spend my days at

 

[dstorm1911]

More

 

[dstorm1911]

and still more

 

[dstorm1911]

still more

 

[dstorm1911]

want a few more? this is a lil bit........... very little bit, uh would ya consider 125,000 milsurps a sickness? My private collection is around 4,000 if ya total long guns, handguns, subguns and squad level machine guns both NFA and semi conversions, I don't see it as a sickness I see it as accumulation

 

[alamo]

very little bit, uh would ya consider 125,000 milsurps a sickness? My private collection is around 4,000 if ya total long guns, handguns, subguns and squad level machine guns both NFA and semi conversions

I'm speechless...

 

[hexidismal]

I was going to post .. but after seeing dstorm1911's posts .. I just can't anymore, I just can't.

 

[Babarsac]

After all those pictures...I had to change my underwear.