What Surplus Rifle should I buy next?
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- Montréal, Québec
If you want to put the cherry on top of your Russian heavy collection, try to get a PTRD or PTRS. Ammo is very hard to find and a pain to reload but if you do get ammo, you won't regret owning one.
If you want something with lots of ammo around, get an Enfield.
If you want something with lots of ammo around, get an Enfield.
Don't mention ptrs! Where on earth would you find one? Very rare here.
But it would be fun.
It dpends what your into. I like K98s, or you could get a k31, also seems to be quite easly to get ammo for. Or an m1 carbine. Anything really, they are all fun
But it would be fun.
It dpends what your into. I like K98s, or you could get a k31, also seems to be quite easly to get ammo for. Or an m1 carbine. Anything really, they are all fun
You have a good start there, and very pretty to boot!
Guy JR said it quite well, I think. Handloading really is the only way to go. It's cheaper than buying ammo, you can load what you like, you can craft your own Match-grade stuff for half the cost of factory.... and you can make up all the ones that you can't buy. And if you like to shoot a LOT, you can use the famous C.E. Harris UNIVERSAL load for fullsize military rifles (13 grains of Red Dot with a 180-grain CAST bullet for 1800 ft/sec and 2 MOA: 537 loads to the pound of powder: dime a shot!)
You can set up with a good basic set of tooling for about 100 bucks. Add another 30 to that when you add another calibre. Buy your components for versatility: 4895 is almost a universal milsurp powder, .308 bullets fit .308, .30-06, 7.5 Swiss, 7.5 French, primers fit anything, .312 slugs fit .303, 7.62x54R, 7.7 Jap, 7.65 Argy, Belgian and Turk, .264 fits any 6.5 except Carcano (Jap, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Rumanian, Greek) and so forth.
I have just loaded a batch of 8x56R for my 1903 Bulgarian Mannlicher straight-pull, a batch of 8x50R for my Austrian 1917 police carbine and I'm finishing a batch of 6.5x52 for a 1918 Mannlicher-Carcano long rifle (completely unaltered with an excellent bore) which jumped off the truck on the way to the dump. And I have 40 more that you can't get shells for, and I shoot them all. For 50 cents a pop.
Really something to think about: opens up the whole WORLD of milsurps for you.
AND it's fun!
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Guy JR said it quite well, I think. Handloading really is the only way to go. It's cheaper than buying ammo, you can load what you like, you can craft your own Match-grade stuff for half the cost of factory.... and you can make up all the ones that you can't buy. And if you like to shoot a LOT, you can use the famous C.E. Harris UNIVERSAL load for fullsize military rifles (13 grains of Red Dot with a 180-grain CAST bullet for 1800 ft/sec and 2 MOA: 537 loads to the pound of powder: dime a shot!)
You can set up with a good basic set of tooling for about 100 bucks. Add another 30 to that when you add another calibre. Buy your components for versatility: 4895 is almost a universal milsurp powder, .308 bullets fit .308, .30-06, 7.5 Swiss, 7.5 French, primers fit anything, .312 slugs fit .303, 7.62x54R, 7.7 Jap, 7.65 Argy, Belgian and Turk, .264 fits any 6.5 except Carcano (Jap, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Rumanian, Greek) and so forth.
I have just loaded a batch of 8x56R for my 1903 Bulgarian Mannlicher straight-pull, a batch of 8x50R for my Austrian 1917 police carbine and I'm finishing a batch of 6.5x52 for a 1918 Mannlicher-Carcano long rifle (completely unaltered with an excellent bore) which jumped off the truck on the way to the dump. And I have 40 more that you can't get shells for, and I shoot them all. For 50 cents a pop.
Really something to think about: opens up the whole WORLD of milsurps for you.
AND it's fun!
.
.30/06 FTW
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- Thunder Bay, Ontario
but yeah, Garands are awesome!
smellie;I can see why you have a trader rating of 1.I can't blame you ,each piece of these old milsurps,whether it's just a old nose cap off off a No 1 Mk3* or a complete old Ross speaks volumes on what our fore bearers did and sacrificed for ours and other countries.To you and all of us other collectors of these fine old rifles remember that we are just custodians of a piece of history that collectively put together would surpass most of the war museums of the word.
