What's your favorite 3 milsurp rifles to shoot and why ?

[Offfhand]

My favorite milsurp to shoot? Easy answer, my all time #1 favorite is this '03 I bought when I was about 15. I was fascinated by high power target shooting but didn't have a suitable target rifle and no money to buy one. So a retired military guy sold me this rifle he had equipped and tuned for NMC shooting. It was instant love the first time I opened the hand-honed bolt and he let me pay for it in three $25. payments. Even back then, the cost of ammo presented a barrier for a poor country school boy, so I learned to reload and cast my own bullets. A sympathetic tire store owner gave me old wheel weights to mould bullets, surplus 4895 powder was only half-buck a pound and salvage GI brass was free. So every round cost only pennies, and I loaded and shot thousands. Later I advanced to more sophisticated equipment but I kept this old favorite for memories of happy days on the target range. I've given instructions for it to be buried with me.

 

[BrocLuno]

My favorite three are all Arisaka's. 7.7 military, 7.7 buba sporter, and one 6.5

They all get comments at the range and are ton of fun to shoot.

I enjoy an M1 as much as the next guy - ping!

Wish I could get my old issued M16 Hydra-Matic out here into the real world, but that ain't goinna happen ...

 

[lionking]

1, navy match M1 Garand 7.62x 51
a, 1952 M1 Garand Korean war vet IHC 30.06
2, M1A also 7.62x51
3, Finn M39, 7.62x 54r
4, Lee Enfield Mk1 .303.
5. Colt M16,A1 civilian style now,
Just love rifles that were used against comunists

I know some dislike communist rifles of origin, for personal or political reasons, my take on it is, it is great that in the U.S.A and other western nations we have access to them also because it means we won against them, and we have theirs but they don't have ours. When that wall came down and that sickle flag went bye bye, it was in our favor.

 

[Pivot Dr]

‘98 Springfield 30-40 Krag
03-A3 Smith Corona
CETME
M1A
Mosin Nagant
1911 Government