Whats Your favorite Milsurp Rifle..

[Harbinger]

Quite freakish, Tamara.

 

[Man-O-War]

I gotta go with the M1 also. I like a lot of them, but the M1 always rises to the top of the list.

 

[Bainx]

While Tamara is making up her mind on favorites [ ] I will plug.... M44 with all the trimmings---bayo, bandoleer w/stripper clips as being my favorite!

 

[Malamute]

Tamara, have you visited the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody? Pretty amazing place, (they have the Winchester factory arms collection), it includes about every thing made in the US, and a pretty fair representative history of arms back to hand cannons and matchlocks. The basement has another rather large pile of guns that are just racked side by side to conserve space. Who knows, they may be looking for staff.


Bernie Goetz. Cooper wrote about a guy that had a similar experience as Goetz just a short time later. After the bad guys were down, he simply left, went home. Nobody ever knew who he was.

 

[Zeke Menuar]

Favorite?

Friday is was my 43' Tula ex-sniper. Spent that day redoing some of the shellac.

Yesterday it was my No1 MkIII Ishapore. I spent the afternoon watching football, wiring up the small parts and refinishing all the metal. I redid the stock so the metal had to be redone as well.

In Janurary it was my Hungarian M44. This was my first effort at completely refinishing a totally oil-soaked stock. Came out great for a first effort.

My overall favorite is my M38 Mosin. It is a Big 5 gun with a sewerpipe bore, counterbore and M44 stock. This one is my favorite because it was a Christmas gift from my wife and my first milsurp. In the eight months since then, I have aquired five more milsurps and a C&R license.

ZM

 

[Freightman]

Well probley #1 would be one of my Hakims, 2. one of my Garands, 3 my 49/56 MAS then my K31

 

[Biff]

Gotta be the M1 Garand. Anything else is just another bullet launcher.

 

[foghornl]

The US Rifle Cal .30 M-1. Popularly Known As "The Garand"

Then the Mosin-Nagant M-44 [ Noisy Magnet ]

The SKS series

Have never fired an AK-xx or AR-xx, so don't know if I like them or not.

 

[NMshooter]

Tamara, I am truly impressed. Maybe you could talk Oleg into helping you start an online museum. Up till now I thought the Vetterli was a single shot breechloader.

 

[TheDutchman]

1903a3

 

[Cosmoline]

1--Finnish refurbed and accurized hex receiver 91/30 capture
2--Schmidt-Rubin 96/11
3--Schmidt-Rubin K-31
4--Argentine 1891 Mauser
5--Swedish Mauser
6--Arisaka, either type
7--Persian VZ-24 Mauser, Czech made
8--Eddystone Enfield with "EK" stamped on the side
9--M-39 Finnish Mosin
10--Greek Mannlicher-Schoenauer in 6.5 M-S

 

[Rapidrob]

Johnson 1941. Recoil operated. Can be reloaded at any time. Quick change barrel. Rotary locking bolt. Way ahead of it's time.
Rapidrob.

 

[krusty311]

98k converted by israel to .308........just because I suppose

krusty

 

[Bane]

Mosin. M44 or 91/30. Rifles and ammo are cheap. And they are fairly accurate at moderate range.