Hello, my Name is David
I'm new (2 days I think) and I'm nost interested in mil-surp stuff-predominantly ex-com-bloc. My first gun is a Rossi .38 snubby-bought for the arduous trip from San Francisco (Love the city,
HATE THE GUN LAWS) Which held me for some ten years. Then I met a customer who is a certtified GUN NUT (Allah be praised) that got me thinking about a Yugo SKS. I'm a tightwad, but once I decide I wanr something I want it RIGHTNOW! SO I went to a military gun show without knowing any thing about guns-I was familiar with the SKS history and operation, and ended up paying way to much for a beater (The Beast) with a bore as black as my heart. Oh well, a life lesson for $159 could be viewed as cheap. Shortly thereafter I got a maverick 88 (Cheap but perfectly serviceable copy of a Mossberg 500) pump 12 gauge. My first time at the traps I shot 85%. I started to do some squirel, rabbit, dove and goose hunting for a couple of years (No Animals were harmed during this simulation of hunting). I hit just about every public hunting land in a 90 mile radius of Milwaukee, and let me tell you, hasn't been anything bigger than a field mouse in any of them. The closest area has some chances for doves-too fast and some geese-too high.
My next purchase was a Mosin Nagant 91/30 dated 1933 with an octagon barell and except for some varnish ware on the stock it looks brand new. Finally got my cheapo BS scope half way dialed in and shoots about 1.5 MOA at 100 yards if I do my part. Next was a m68 Bulgarian training bolt .22 carbine. Its stock is rough looking, but the metal and bore are used but quite clean. It shoots about 1-1.5 MOA at 50 yards, cost me $65. If you find one in decent shape, grab it up if the aint to dear-they whent fast when people found out the value for price. The West Allis (a Mke Suburb)Boy Scouts are armed with them-they left me the rattiest in the rack-but it's my 2nd favorite rifle.
Then I decided to get some pistols-a lot more range time available- So I got a crotchety guy in Fon du Lac to order me a Brno CZ52-a peculiar but durable and accurate Czech police/army pistol from well, 1952. The local gun shop cranked its transfer fee too $100-on a $159 pistol
and Tom charged $50. It was a birthday /out of the 3 month hospital stay for a broken spine.(Which co-incided with my last Squirel Hunt and Illegal Plinking foray with Gamera, the Varmint Buster-she brought me a deer rib and a freshly squishified field mouse after beating the brush in front of me). I figured it was a present I so desperately needed and richly deserved
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So, CZ '04 came to us from the Czech Republic. Weirdness: until the fall of communism the CZech military was charged with the maintenance of the breeding of
Miniature, Standard and Giant Schnauzers. "Oh now it's Col. Gvads crack regiment of Mini-Schnauzers. They infiltrate the rear-echelon baracks and distribute biological cluster bombs and piss in our boots. DAMN YOU TO HELL GVAD!"There are no defences against you. Cz'04 maintains the soldiers code and can break out of the backyard,anywhere, anytime, leaving the 4.5 other SS looking dismayed.
My Wife shows and Breeds Standard Schnauzers (Chimeradog.com) Heres CZ 04 guarding my 1954 CZ.
Gee, pay some guy $50 bucks to order a gun, or get a C&R license for $30? If any of you new guys are interested in buying weird, mostly military guns check ot the C(urio)&R(elic) license. Here's a good article:
http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting2005/howtogetyourcurionrelicffl03/index.asp
So I had to break in the C&R, right? SO I ordered another CZ52 and a "BRAND NEW" yugo SKS that was coated in cosmoline and on which I did a polyurethane job on the stock (GaspGasp go the hand rubbed oil
guys.)
I did a Makarov.com (
http://makarov.com/cart/52parts.htm) and it shoots quite nicely. But that's it. Really. I've been looking at the Schidt-Rubin rifles a little too much lately...............By the way, my Plinking area in East Troy has fallen vcstim to subdivisionitis, and allthough the public hunting land signs are still up, they're outnumbered 10-1 by brand new No tresspasing, hunting, shooting,fishing, trapping etc. signs. The times they are a changin'
OUt of the goodness of mey heart I got my wife a Jimenez 380 for illegal concealed carry but she did'nt care for the ergonomics-bloody hammer bite-or the 18#trigger. And after running 150 or so rounds through it, I don't think it's the weapon I would want my wife to trust her life on this $85 wonder Tom, a dealer I trusted told me it was a good, dependable piece. Maybe for his family, but not mine.
Final tally:
*Pistols-4
*Rifles-1
*Carbines-3
*Shotguns-1