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OK in honesty more of a best of 2010 post as I just don’t seem to find the time to post here as often as I’d like. I’ve had a bunch of stuff go in and out of the gun room this year but here are the Milsurp highlights.

VZ24: I’m not a Mauser guy but when I saw this one I just had to have it. I let a 7.62mm conversion of a No4 Enfield go for this to another island based CGN‘er. It came with the sling, bayonet and 170 rounds of Port. 8mm. Made in 1927 it’s a numbers matching, Non-refurb with a perfect bore.

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Polish M44: likely up for sale/trade soon.

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M39: An amazing post-war refurb made by Sako.

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Envoy: Unfortunately this one has seen a but of Bubba’s work to “improve” it though the work was very well done. It’s been re-bedded, the barrel changed, converted to single shot, and a McCann (I think) trigger added. I’m working on making it back into a repeater but the whole point is that it is an original Envoy.

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Mod. 1884 Springfield Trapdoor W/Rod bayonet: Missing much of the original finish on the metal work and with several dents and even a small crack in the stock it has an outstanding bore. This makes it sound a lot worse than it is and for a rifle made in 1893 it’s in great shape. Besides you just don’t see to many un-cut Trapdoors around.

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Hope it's OK I started this one this month.
 
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I found a lowly Mosin the other day, and thought it too would be a great way to kick off 2011. Pics will be posted on another thread when I have better daylight for the camera, but for now, a teaser:

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And it does have a peculiar feature:
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The barrel came from Switzerland.

2011 looks bleak from here... ;)
 
PerversPépère said:
Very nice firearms and a gorgeous M-39!
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Ellison said:
Those look great man I'm loving the M-39
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. It actually first appeared here on CGN:
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=384622&highlight=m39
I gather it was sold to another CGN’er from whom I got it in trade for a nice 1950 Long Branch No4. It’s one of those rifles you just never sell.

longbranch* said:
Heeyyyy...that VZ24 looks familiar! Happy New Year to you buddy.
Cheers
Geoff
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Ya Geoff I’m surprised you let Dave have it though I guess ultimately I’m glad you traded it off. The build quality and finish rivals any of the German and Swedish Mausers I’ve looked at even after more than 80yrs of use.

And here is a late addition. I took a photo to be posted with the original post but somehow missed it when making the post. It’s a Swed. AG42B made in 1943.

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All technically December purchases/arrivals with the exception of the bolt action with the funny writing on it that wanted to get some air and get in on the picturetaking. Two 1935 TT-30's, a 1929 Nagant, an FSN-01 and a 1943 Austrian service Rock-ola line out M1 Carbine.
 
Nice. Mind if I ask where you got the Tokarevs? Maybe it's the light, but they don't look like refurbs.
 
Italy, complete with fairly unobtrusive Italian registration/import markings - they basically mark their equivalent of an FRT number on the gun itself. The Toks are far from mint condition and that picture is fairly flattering, so I couldn't say definitively whether they are refurbed are not. These are blued, is my memory correct in thinking the refurbs (or what we think of as refurbs) are generally more of a hot dipped black finish? Maybe it's a good thing I got two.. incase someone else wants one? :p

The Nagant is a toss-up as well, it has the early rounded front sight with later style grips. God knows how many times the M1 has been refurbed, it has certainly been passed around enough. Atleast one overhaul, for sure.
 
Very, very nice "Christmas came early" posts this month. It appears things are arriving in bunches for at least some folks. Thanks for sharing.
 
Holiday Swag

Well, technically the bottom two are december purchases, but so close to January that its gonna show up here. Tossed in the norc M213 since it's still in the spirit of milsurp.

Top: 1917 M96 in 6.5x55, lightly sporterized with bent bolt, clipped wood and tapped for diopters. Just about all the aprts match except the reciever, but it looks to have been put together well, the trimmed stock was inletted for the nosecap properly. Going to be a hunting gun so it needs new sights and I might toss a scope on her since it's tapped and lacking collector value anyhow... still deciding.

Middle: is a 1950 all matching(except forcematched stock) Tula SKS. Appears to have been barely fired and hols about 1.5" at 100yds with milsurp. Definite keepe:Dr.

Bottom: is a run-o-the mill Norc M213, needed full deburring and trigger job/gremlin fixing before it would shoot, but is a nice tight shooter now.

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