Do you remember your first Milsurp

My first milsurp was a K98 redone by the Czechs after WW2. Hard to say what it was prior. I bought one in the old Regina Army & Navy store. My buddy bought a Jungle Carbine the same time. That was in the Fall of 1965. I bought another one the same over Christmas that winter at the New Westminster Army & Navy. It's been downhill ever since! :p

In those days, the Army & Navy stores had rows and rows of nice surplus rifles. They were just "them old
army rifles" back then.

I also bought a nice Churchill Arms No.1 Mk 3* from our local MacLeods store that Fall for $65. I just recently scored a Churchill No. 4 to keep it company. It is over at Deaner's getting a stock refinishing job. It had the old spar varnish and mop job. :)
 
Sporterized No4 MkI. Made my own crude buttstock for it, mounted a scope, got a flush mounted five round mag and shot several deer with it. Still have it.
 
Can Am late 1970's.
Dozens of C#7 .22 Enfields at 80 bucks apiece, hundreds SMLEs all correct at 40 each, even a few Bess muskets for couple hundred. And I pick a lone Brazilian Mauser for my first milsurp for 60 bucks!
If I could time travel back!
 
camster said:
Ljungmann AG-42B bought at a local auction ($60, or $80 can't recall) circa '86. My first deer gun. It was sold as a "semi swedish mauser", and no one there had a clue what it was. I was surrounded by local, tough-guy, gun lovers when the action snapped closed the first time EVERYONE jumped back. Good times.

I wasn't home when the registration came into effect, and a family member registered it...it was a "torped overlsag" according to the registry.
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LOL! Alot of those "torped overlsags" around.

My first was also a Ljungman. I saved it from the chopper because the guy who owned it believed it to be illegal for some reason. I talked him into selling it to me. Only thing illegal was the unpinned mag. I still have it and love it, even at 5 rounds capacity :d
 
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LOL! Alot of those "torped overlsags" around.

My first was also a Ljungman. I saved it from the chopper because the guy who owned it believed it to be illegal for some reason. I talked him into selling it to me. Only thing illegal was the unpinned mag. I still have it and love it, even at 5 rounds capacity :d
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My poor rifle has waaaaaaaaay more troublesome Canadian history than Swedish! It was separated from it's magazine through legal consideration (I never will get it back). It went a few years unfired, then about 2 years fired single-loaded (Don't do this unless you have a means of arresting a returning bolt!!! Trust me.) until I found a pinned mag on the EE. lol electro-pencilled numbers don't match (they come with them...), but it is fully functional now.

I got teased for my cheap deer gun; I liked surps then because they were cheap, functional, and robust ball slingers...not priceless artifacts! I passed on .303's because they were for the really poor, and an SKS-D $80 at the very auction I bought mine at. I passed on the SKS 'cause it weren't no gud for deer...bahahaha on me! (Chinese SKS taking m'last 2) I'll be fair in saying my Lungmann seemed much easier to "carry" when I was a teen.

I know more now (thnx CGN, and I miss you Smellie)
 
My Dad's first 'surp (RIP Helmut feb 2016)

M'Dad came to Canada from Germany. He was a young 'un in Berlin when things weren't s'happy...kinda war-ish really. His first rifle here was a BRNO vz24. Not out of some kinda hostile re-visiting of nostalgia, but because of an engineering respect. lol It was very quickly "bubba'd" by extending th' stock for him (biiiiiig guy), adding a scope (Hensoldt Wetzlar), a bent bolt, and more stock work for that. 2 points... th'best German rifles ain't German, and it's yours now. One of millions, you know what it was for, use it now! (late 50's/early 60's...)

He had noooooooooooooo desire whatsoever to preserve history. Most folks who actually see/carry these things don't really. Their history is what made our sunny future.

...can't say they ain't awesome for th'moose n'whatnot...
 
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Not only first milsurp but first gun, bough in 2009 (the year I turned 18). Restored from being sporterized. Still have it and not for sale. Not a single number matches, there are many like it but this one is mine

No4 mk1 1943. Made in England then it traveled to Malaysia then Canada.

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P14 with cut down stock. I had Elwood Epps cut down the rear sight protector ears and mount a weaver 1.5. Shot a lot of groundhogs and a nice buck. Traded it for 722 Remington in .257 Roberts when the "no rifles over .277 for varmint shooting in S.ON" regulation came in. I still have the Weaver scope on the ..257.
 
My first milsurp was bought off my close friend, a 1940 J.P Sauer & Sohn Kar98k Russian capture. I sold that rifle a while ago and I do miss it but that is the way things go. Is it bad I still remember the serial number including the suffix letter ?
 
My first milsurp was a Garand, which I think I overpaid for, but I wanted one!

Now I don't even care for it, as my interests have wondered all over it seems.....
 
I still have mine. It was a gift from my then girlfriend so I can't sell it, and I got my first deer with it so I can't sell it. Easy to remember that one.
 
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