Hunting with milsurps

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LawrenceN

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There have been many threads on this topic and truth to tell, I was looking for one of the recent ones but couldn't find the forum it was in. Well, I decided to post my own and toot my own horn a little. Some background........thanks to a very good friend, I have a place to hunt in the Minden/Haliburton region. Only one spot has 125+ yd. line-of-sight so most deer engagements are 40-70 yd. Some time back, I'd purchased a "Sussex" English No.4 sporter and decided to tweak it to suit me. I fabricated a scope mount (which works like a charm), mounted a rail, mounted a scope, fabricated a cheek piece to give me an instant sight picture, and commenced load development for deer. Before you laugh, yes, I know it looks awkward BUT every shooter who laughed at it stopped laughing once they shouldered it and acquired the sight picture. Appearance means bugger all and it always comes down to "how does it shoot". You be the judge.

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Nothing to snicker at , I used to hunt with a bubba no4 for a while and now switched to a sporterised Churchill again a no 4 .
 
Will only use milsurps in the field, only complaint, weight to modern day.

I buy bubba no 5 mk 1's and sporterize them for my deer gun. ATI synthetic stocks, slip on recoil pad, Addley Precision scope mount, remove the front sight assembly and looking at putting a muzzle brake.

Also working on a Swedish m96 with a NOS barrel and bending the bolt handle.

Bought a Columbia mauser 3006 made rifle that was sporterized and will use it for moose and bear.

Just got given a Israeli converted 7.62 mauser, but still have to test fire and research the rifle.

Bought a Cabela savage package rifle, returned it the next day and understand why they are always for sale on EE.
 
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Plan on trying out my sporter mosin cut down to 20" glass bedded into a monte carlo stock with a LER scope. Hoping to get some decent groups for 200yrds tree stand shots over a farmers field this fall. Will be using MSF soft points.
 
Why not put a proper over the action scope base on it and a regular scope?Other than having to alter the bolt.......Harold
 
Looks to be a neat rig. Nothing at all wrong with either the round or the rifle. We are so mesmerized by the newest and flashiest high-tech announcements that we tend to forget that the .303 in a surplus Lee-Enfield was more-or-less the most common big game setup in Canada for decades. It worked well 60 years ago and, unless Bambi has somehow grown Kevlar, it should work every bit as well today.

Thanks for that - and good luck on the hunt.
 
My first several deer were shot with a crudely cut-down Ross M-10.

I swear that barrel has never been crowned, just cut with a hacksaw and the front sight remounted.

I shot bears with a stock 1938, Mosin-Nagant 91/30 too.
 
CameronMac said:
Tell me more about this homemade base. Piece of Angle?
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Roger that! Cut 'er down, polished and blued it, and shaped it to fit around the ejector screw head, then drilled and tapped in 3 pan head allen screws. I ran a piece of dental floss from the fore sight through the back sight to establish center line, marked it, and then got a scope base for a Marlin 336 (they have a flat bottom), mounted that, got my scope, Millett adjustable rings, bore sighted the whole shebang and I was good to go.
 
my 303 #4 has taken down many deer with reloads. not a pretty gun to look at but it gets the job done with great accuracy, 5 shots in the size of a quarter at 60 yards.
 
My first big game rifle is a P17 30-06. I know nothing of it's service history but it's been passed through the family a couple generations and taken moose, deer, mountain goat and who knows what else. I find it loses zero after a few shots and is heavy to pack but has a lot of sentimental value. I still hunt with it occasionally

 
Like many of you, my first hunting rifle was a Lee Enfield. I took my first deer with an English No.4 still in it's full military livery. You never forget your first, and in my case it was about 150 yd. (open sights) lung shot. Alas, the years have taken their toll and now all my hunting rifles are wearing glass and recoil pads, exception to recoil pad is my SKS. I now have the pictured No.4, an SKS all tricked out, and a Swedish mauser. I've worked up accurate hand loads for all of them since, like any responsible hunter, I feel it's my duty to ensure a clean kill shot on my game. I burned through a lot of bullets and powder during my load development periods but I had to so I could adhere to the hunting ethics I was raised with. The only non military big game hunting rifle I ever bought was a Riger M77 heavy barrel .308. I basically paid 1/2 price for an unfired rifle and Leupold scope package. That particular rifle shoots sub MOA all day long with my handloads and has put a lot of venison on the table. Again, age had made it a heavy rifle to lug around in the bush and it's frankly more gun than I need for the place where I hunt. I have friends who hunt with Russian, German, Swedish, British, and Canadian milsurps and all of us are more than happy with what they do. Even today with the prices getting stupid I still tell new hunters who are looking for a budget first-time hunting rifle that they can't go wrong with a good Lee Enfield.
 
I took a 1915 M1895 straight pull bolt action in 8x56R, never did get a shot at a deer but took a grouse at 50 yards with the battle sights, took 3 shots, ha ha, most expensive meat per ounce ever.

I love taking old guns hunting, no need to scope them in many cases too.
 
My go to rifle is a sporterized no1mk3.

All wood and steel construction is heavy, but unlike modern hunting rifles it has no cheap plastics.
 
i don't post pics on here anymore but could fill many posts with the animals I've taken with my no1 mkIII. Deer, moose and Black Bear. Even got a record book buck on rememberance day back about 10 years ago with that rifle.... was even wearing a poppy at the time ;)
 
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