Just fun: your worst milsurp nightmare

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Just thought it might be fun for people to share their own worst milsurp nightmares.

Mine revolves around a phone call from Bubba on the other side of town. He wants help building a combat pistol, has already welded the new sights to the toggle of the Navy Luger and wants to chequer the grip frame. He has just ground off some old stampings: looked like "U-20".

Is this the worst that we can come up with?

Saints preserve us: at least this one is fictional!!!!
 
I watched the police dump a load of firearms into the shredder I was operating, all of them were turned in by people who didn't want guns in their house. A few were probably family heirlooms some bubblehead didn't realise were museum pieces. I know one of the pieces had a bore the size of about 1 inch.
 
I have an unfired Brazillian Contract 1935 7x57 mauser, would make a good hunting rifle but its pretty long and heavy. I want to cut the barrel down to about 20" and get rid of all the extra wood. Also, gonna need to drill and tap the reciever for a scope mount and cut the butt to get a recoil pad on. The bolt needs to be blued (cheap germans did not even bother blueing it!) and bent down, that will make it easier to cycle and clear my tasco scope. I use the bayonet for digging weeds out of the garden. Also makes a good tomato stake. It was not very sharp so I used my trusty Power Fist bench grinder to sharpen it. I should also paint the rifle so it don't rust. I got some tremclad, that will work.

Hows that?
 
Well, no real big shockers for me but I did get to see 3-4 Lee Enfields (full wood), go from the trunk of a car to an OPP detachment. The widow did not want them in the house....

The guns went to be melted down....

And no I did not know the widow or the duty officer at the detachment, (if it would have made a difference anyhow).

Shame really. They could have taken the barreled receivers, I would have taken the rest...
 
DAR 701 said:
I have an unfired Brazillian Contract 1935 7x57 mauser, would make a good hunting rifle but its pretty long and heavy. I want to cut the barrel down to about 20" and get rid of all the extra wood. Also, gonna need to drill and tap the reciever for a scope mount and cut the butt to get a recoil pad on. The bolt needs to be blued (cheap germans did not even bother blueing it!) and bent down, that will make it easier to cycle and clear my tasco scope. I use the bayonet for digging weeds out of the garden. Also makes a good tomato stake. It was not very sharp so I used my trusty Power Fist bench grinder to sharpen it. I should also paint the rifle so it don't rust. I got some tremclad, that will work.

Hows that?
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You don,t need to drill and tap,I just arc welded my steel rings to the receiver of my Argentina M1909,also had to weld the floorplate shut when I turned it into a .410 cottontail gun :D That outta get turds flyin
 
I know of a nice single shot MG42 that was turned into the local police station back in the day when some people where in a panic about what they had in their possesion. I would really like to know what was going through the mind of the owner to turn something like that in without compensation.:confused:
 
I have a lovely Jungle Carbine that bubba fixed up into a nice costume hunting rife. First he grinded off the bayonet lug and some of that ugly writing on the receiver. Then he decided to replace that crappie short but stock with a much longer replacement from a Number 1 mk 3. The icing on the cake though is the hi-gloss fully refurbished stock, which is complimented with newly spray painted metal components.:( :runaway:
 
My worst nightmare was actually a nightmare...

I have a beautiful mostly matching 91/30, and one night I dreamt I took it hunting, but it was wearing a chopped down stock, bent bolt, cantilever scope mount, and some giant ultra-magnification glass. Haha I woke up because I thought it was just too weird.
 
ilovepotatos said:
Are they really that bad? I've been looking to pick one up eventually. Something in good condition and all matching. So I have a piece of Italy for my milsurp collection.

Is this a bad Idea? *frowns in puzzlement*
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No Carcanos are not bad at all, although the ignorant masses consider them dangerous. Somewhat of a private joke.
 
Inquisitor said:
My worst nightmare was actually a nightmare...

I have a beautiful mostly matching 91/30, and one night I dreamt I took it hunting, but it was wearing a chopped down stock, bent bolt, cantilever scope mount, and some giant ultra-magnification glass. Haha I woke up because I thought it was just too weird.
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You went hunting with a Mosin-Nagant and not a Swed mauser or a Enfield,that was a weird dream :D
 
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