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This may of been asked before.But what are everybody's favorite Military type rifles made before the AR-15/M-16 time period?For some reason I got the old rifle bug.I have a K-31'MY FAVORITE"a Mitchells M-48,A Moisin M-44 and a 1903 Springfield.I have never shot a Garand or M-14.
 
I would love to get ahold of a nice Garand.

An excellent condition K98 or 91/30 would be nice.

Not really a collector. The milsurps I have now get shot from time to time & they're not really anything special. My M38 MoNag is far from collector grade but it's a hoot to shoot! :D

Right now I have a '53 vintage unissued Polish M44 on layaway.
 
As my handle suggests, I'm partial to the Mosin-Nagant family, with Enfields coming a close second. And I enjoy shooting my Mausers too. And...well, I like them all, really!
 
I've been looking at mosins for a couple years now. Been wanting to grab two or three just to mess around with but for some reason just haven't pulled the trigger on the buy yet. I really need to just go a head and do it.
 
Love 'em all! I have a 1903, an 03-A3, Garand, real jungle carbine, several M98's, etc. They 'speak' to me of engineering, history, glory, bravery, etc.
 
My favorite are the accurate ones - the Finnish mosins, K31's, and M1917's.
If I loosen the accuracy criteria a bit, the Garand, SVT 40, and the FN49 are a hoot to shoot!
 
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Love 'em all! I have a 1903, an 03-A3, Garand, real jungle carbine, several M98's, etc. They 'speak' to me of engineering, history, glory, bravery, etc.
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This is how I feel about mil-surps also. If they could only talk.

English, German, Swiss, Yugoslavian, USA and Japanese account for about 50 rifles in total for me. All have interesting history behind them.
 
^^ i feel alike. For me the collection comprises sweden,belgium, russia and switserland sofar. If they force me to just keep one: 1909 carl gustav
 
I also love all surplus , from all eras. But my favorite would be British surplus.webleys,martinies,Medfords,enfields.
The best of them all, for me would be a lee Metford MKII*
 
I've got Swedish, Swiss, Russian, and German rifles so far and just getting started. I've yet to shoot the Nagant or the K98 (will be this weekend) but its hard to imagine either of those being as sweet a shooter as the Gustaffs or the K31. Got my C&R about a month ago and I plan to greatly expand my collection over the next year.
 
I've got a good variety also of the American classics and the foreign armee's, have a fondness for the brit ennies and will rebuild a LongBranch that I rescued from bubba. Once I'm home from deployment.
At the moment, I'm really fascinated with a MAS 49/56 I reload for, very impresssive. Mine is a 1962 vintage and has not been rebuilt/rearsenaled, honestly would grab it up before my Garand as my main defense weapon if needed.
 
I like all the early semi-autos. My current favorite:

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I have a decent variety of military surplus rifles. My favorites are the Garand, the M1 Carbine, Swedish M96/38 and AG42, Lee-Enfield and K98. I don't have a Krag but would really like to find a nice one sometime. One military surplus rifle that I have kind of a love/hate relationship with is the US 1917 Enfield. The particular rifle I had originally belonged to a friend of mine who had wanted a shooter but became become frustrated with it and sold it to me cheap. From the condition of the stock, it looked like it had been through the "Great War"...twice... and then stored in a barrel of grease ever since. It was a "2 groove" Remington. The bore was a little dark but not that bad really. I've had rifles with worse looking barrels that still shot pretty good. Never the less, this rifle wouldn't stay on the paper at 50 yards. Plus, because of the stock design, size, my shooting style or whatever, the recoil of the rifle would slam my thumb into my nose and it had the most "perceived" recoil of any 3006 I ever fired. My friend had the same issues with it. Anyway, I eventually traded it off (practically gave it away) and now wish I hadn't. It was actually a pretty cool rifle with undoubtedly lots of history behind it.
 
I would be happy as heck to find a good condition 30-40 Craig when I have the cash to spare.I never shot one but find it unique to me anyway.I gotta get my K-31 done first.
 
I got into Milsurps only recently so I have a lot of the wish list still but a few that I enjoy shooting:

M96
M39
K31

While mine is not technically a milsurp the AK puts a smile on my face.

Want:

M1 Garand
M1 Carbine
M1911A1
 
sorry but, you lost many to most of your serious collectors on your FIRST post

Mitchells M-48
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you post a FRAUD, a known humper, in your 'serious' collection
you will find that while yugos will be accepted into most Mauser collectors, you can't PAY them to take a mitchells, as they are HUMPED (faked and done badly, not to mention that he had to CAREFULLY rephrase his ads)

Oh and if you like Mitchells, I got a "rare, historic soon to dry up mauser of the Russian front" 91/30 to see you for $600.

and yes, I'm refering to Mitchell mosins, that he sold for 10 times the going rate.
 
I'm partial to the Mosin and the Steyr M95 staight-pull. I have an Enfield on the way that I cant wait to shoot. I'm also holding out for a nice Mauser.
 
I really like my SKS and M1 Carbine. They're my favorites. My L-E No.5 Mk1 (Jungle Carbine) was higher on my list til I shot it. That thing kicks hard. I love my M1916 Spanish Mauser, but the fixed sights are off windage-wise. It's a great little rifle, fast handling, light, comfortable stock in the shoulder.
 
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