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Hey guys,

New to the site here, and I have to say I like it much better then the american site I used to be on! anyways, I would like to have a collection of rifles which consists of every STANDARD ISSUE rifle from every major power in WWII. so far I have....

1. 1943 Lee Enfield No.4 Mk.1 (Faz)
2. 1945 Lee Enfield No.5 Mk.1 (Faz) willing to sell/trade for 98K
3. 1943 Mosin-Nagant M1891/30 (Tula)

my next purchase/trade will be for the Mauser 98k... the question is. what was the standard issue mauser? in full detail.....also what are the standard issue rifles for the other major players.....Japan, America.. and so on.

Also, I just shot the mosin for the first time. what a blast!!!!!!!!!:rockOn:

Thanks for any help.......
 
Well, the standard German rifle is as you said the Mauser 98K... not much more to say, really. What specifically do you want to know?

Standard US rifle was the M1 Garand, and the M1 Carbine is alot of fun to shoot. The Japanese main rifle was the Arisaka-T99, though there were probably just as many if not more T-38s were still in service. The standard Italian rifle was the Carcano M91/38 in 6.5mm. The Chinese, if you want to go that far, was the Chiang Kai Shek Mauser, and the French the MAS-36. Of course, there's alot of other great rifles used in large numbers from these countries to get into, and alot of smaller countries who also had some interesting weapons.

I started out wanting the main rifle from every major country from WW2 as well. I now have about 75 military rifles, pistols and shotguns and no intention of stopping, and now I have every major and several minor countries from WW2, most from WW1 and I'm starting to get into 19th century stuff. It's addictive!
 
Thanks for all the info!
As far as the mauser is concerned. i understand i have a few variations to pick from. i was wondering what the main variant was. I keep seeing the
Kar98K? is this a carbine version? i guess what i'm trying to say is....if you wanted to get a mauser 98k which represented the collection as best as possible. which would you choose?

also, think i'll have any luck getting one with a swastica on it? that would be pretty neat
 
The Kar 98K is the standard German rifle of WW2, they only called it a carbine because it was short compared to the Gew 98 of WW1. You can see the difference in my pair. The Russian captures weren't scrubbed, they should have the swastika.

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excellent. now i gotta track down one of them. i'm new to this, not even sure where to start......thanks again for all the info!

your right though, this is very addictive!
 
They come up on the exchange boards pretty regularly. Failing that try Jean Plamondon at P&S Guns & Militaria.
 
Oh, you're in deep water already but you don't know it.

Here you go, a list of non restricted and restricted canadian available guns (the ones in italics are very very expensive):

WW2:

America - garand, M1 carbine, springfield 1903

Canada - Enfield No4

Britain - no4

Germany - Kar98, MP40, g43, mg34,



Japan??

USSR - M44, M38, M91/30, SVT 40
 
yeah. figured this would be an expensive/addictive hobby. just don't tell my wife. thanks for the info as well H.

i'm waiting to be accepted into the exchange forums. i hope I pass the security screen.
 
anything japan made aside from their machine guns are legal in canada. i dont know if nambu pistols are over four inches though.

and there are many variations of type 38, type 99, paratrooper, and type 30 rifles
 
The Nambu T-14 is Canadian legal, hard to find though. I think the T-26 revolver is a prohib though.

Talquin said:
anything japan made aside from their machine guns are legal in canada. i dont know if nambu pistols are over four inches though.

and there are many variations of type 38, type 99, paratrooper, and type 30 rifles
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Yah - if you've got the budget, I would strongly suggest buying a K31, dies, and brass. They reload with .308 bullets, and are amazingly built.

Basically, the K31 was one of the most advanced rifles of its time known for being universally accurate and overall very very very very well built. If you've got the cash, buy one. (just need to reload, because ammo isn't available already loaded).
 
Well, South of the border loaded ammo is available, but reloading is the way to go since unprimed brass is available and the cartridge case is the most expensive part of the round.
 
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