I bought my first Milsurp from Joe Salter (not 56k friendly)

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I have to say that the service and communication has been superb. I suppose if you pay Salter prices, you get good attention.

Dealing with Questar has also been excellent despite the fact that they are really bogged down with work. I suggested that this might be a sign they are doing something right.

With that whole business I will probably have paid $700.00 for a rifle that once sold for $120.00. However, since there are none here and I wanted to find a US dealer that was experienced and that I KNEW I could trust...well, it should be worth it.

Now, if Tom Petty is right, the waiting will be the hardest part.

My new... toy...

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Correct, Tom. .22LR.

They are quite common south of the border but I wouldn't be surprized if I was the first Canadian to have one.

Another CGNer posted a WTB for one of these in the EE and it finally gave me the motivation to do something about my long time desire for one of these.
 
skirsons said:
Correct, Tom. .22LR.

They are quite common south of the border but I wouldn't be surprized if I was the first Canadian to have one.

Another CGNer posted a WTB for one of these in the EE and it finally gave me the motivation to do something about my long time desire for one of these.
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Mosin?
 
Bringing more guns into the country is never a bad thing!

Nice little rifle skirsons. Even though I have no clue what it is exactly. Enlighten us!

Definitely looks Soviet anyway...
 
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Oh, sorry. I assumed everyone knew about these! This is a Polish WZ-48 training rifle. It looks to be a purpose built rifle developed for the training of Red Army troops. I can't tell you whether they were manufactured in Poland for Polish use (Radom) or manufactured in Poland for general Soviet use. Certainly a Mosin-Nagant trainer. The designation "48" would suggest to me that the model was adopted/designed that year (1948) and was likely made obsolete by the new semi and fully automatic rifles.

The holes are speed holes. They make the gun shoot faster.
 
Sgt Striker said:
When I read your caption, then looked at the rifle, I thought you poor sod, you got ripped off big time.... you got an ugly sporter mosin... :eek:

Nice find there young fellow.
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Yes I should have known, too, that the title could be read two ways... either it's my first milsurp or the first one FROM salter!

Of course it's not the former but the latter. I live for milsurps!
 
Whatever you do, DO NOT dry fire this rifle. I have one, and it sat on a rack in the gun store for a while, subject to the usual IDIOT "trigger snappers"
The result was the edge of the chamber being peened by thr firing pin. wouldn't chamber a round until they ran a .22 reamer in the chamber to clean it up. works OK now.

One thing about Joe Salter, he will NEVER be undersold!:rolleyes:
 
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John Sukey said:
Whatever you do, DO NOT dry fire this rifle. I have one, and it sat on a rack in the gun store for a while, subject to the usual IDIOT "trigger snappers"
The result was the edge of the chamber being peened by thr firing pin. wouldn't chamber a round until they ran a .22 reamer in the chamber to clean it up. works OK now.

One thing about Joe Salter, he will NEVER be undersold!:rolleyes:
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Both true statements. There are also a number of broken firing pins for these rifles. They are finniky I hear!

Joe Salter is expensive, that's for sure. Again, I wanted someone I knew I could trust completely.
 
Coyote Ugly said:
Is it a 4 month +++ wait?

Whats the total fees involved?
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Well, I think the wait is about 8 weeks at the upper end. Some with real world experience might correct me.

The total fees are posted on Questar's site. About $309 tax in for their whole service which includes shipping to my door. Well worth it for a rifle none of our homegrown companies have imported.
 
Nice find, going south of the border for what you want if it's there makes sense to me. I agree the more guns we bring in the better! I hope your wait goes better than mine has thus far. I have a couple Long Branches sitting on Brian at BDL's rack with my name and the words Paid In Full on the tags, but am waiting for the paperwork on my end still and it has been just over 4 weeks now. Then there's shipping and customs. They made an error on my IIC and that's back in the works a second time, and I haven't heard a peep from the CFC about my registrations. (although they can transfer a gun in minutes it takes over a month to register one apparently).

Brian does not charge any fees for export if you buy the rifle from him :), so the only expense here should be shipping and duty.

Even with this as it is I still wouldn't hesitate to import again in the future.
 
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Gary D said:
Nice find, going south of the border for what you want if it's there makes sense to me. I agree the more guns we bring in the better!
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well the sad thing is this rifle probably came from canada in the 1st place, salter sucks em up here for cheap then sells em to the US (after slapping import marks on em)

definitely a nice rifle though! Hope you have a polish 44 to compliment it with ;)
 
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