--November Purchases--

H Wally said:
M24/47 with Zrak mounts and a Weaver K3-1 scope. When I got it the cosmo had been removed from the working parts and shot. There's even still cosmo on the rear sight!

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I see you found your Mauser. Good for you, and it looks like a real keeper too!
 
Milsurps Slow Down.

Skippy said:
I'd almost believe this, nothing short of proper spreaders offered any leverage on this, the hood is stiff as hell. I've felt a repro that'd easily stretch under the force of pliers, but this bcd hood is one stiff mother.
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Skippy use a set of SNAP-RING pliers. Canuck tire has them for cheap. You close them like regular pliers, but the mouth opens in reverse.. TREA SIMPLE LA!

Speaking to BEARHUNTERS THeory of the Milsurp slow down, I disagreement I've noticed that there seems to be a small but real movement out there of late twenty, thirty something dudes going for the old classic milsurps for hunting and personal protection rifles for the odd outing instead of the traditional 30-30. The last rifle I sold a Brazilian mauser mod 1922 went to another CGNer for exactly that.

It falls in line with the Milsurp Hunting Thread. I agree though that we are but a small percent of clan. But people are realizing that some of these milsurps are very good quality and are classic. The MAGNUM rage, is over rated, I mean just how do you actually improve on such classic rounds like the 7x57, 8x57, .303, 30.06, 6.5x55, 7.62 X54R, :confused: This is 100 year old technology that can keep up with anything modern out there. Heck the 7.62x51 NATO, was the TOP DOG Sniper round for YEARS b4 all this .50 BMG BS came around...

anyway, Keep Buying....boys.
 
As far as a milsurp slowdown, I certainly haven't been. In fact I've bought so many in the last few months even I think I'm spending too much.

....Not that I'm not still scanning the classifieds. I think I have a problem....
 
Skippy said:
Lol, I bet everytime you fire it and it heats up you'll see cosmolene bleeding from a new and exciting place ;)

As for the scope, not a bad choice, my old man took a nice spike-horn this year with the same scope mounted on a 55year old rem 740.
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You know, I haven't even had a chance to shoot it yet! Still having that experience with my mosin though:p. I've never owned a scoped rifle, and only shot one once, so this should be a fun one.
 
Skippy said:
I'd almost believe this, nothing short of proper spreaders offered any leverage on this, the hood is stiff as hell. I've felt a repro that'd easily stretch under the force of pliers, but this bcd hood is one stiff mother.
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REAL German hoods (and even Yugo hoods) generally need snap-ring pliers to budge. Use proper tools so you don't gouge up the finish on the front sight block, I always say ;)
 
Skippy said:
I'd almost believe this, nothing short of proper spreaders offered any leverage on this, the hood is stiff as hell. I've felt a repro that'd easily stretch under the force of pliers, but this bcd hood is one stiff mother.
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I used "snap ring pliers". Home Despot sells them, probably other places too. You can reverse mount the tips so they open when you squeeze rather than close. It was a piece of cake to get the hood on my K98k with them.
 
Sigismund said:
BYF42 is one of the rarest codes out there. Allegedly only 700 left the factory. Others claim more than that were produced, but Im not an expert on that issue.
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Thanks Sigismund, that explains the value somewhat.. Big money on some of those WWII collectables..

Skippy did you buy a set of snap ring pliers yet?:D
 
Lol thanks for the advice guys. I actually just borrowed a pair from the mechanic at my work for the same reason Claven mentioned, I was worried about gouging the finish if I kept trying to jerry-rig it.
As you can see in the pics I posted on page 3, the hood is now on.... thoguh I do need to buy a set of those pliers yet so I can put the hood back on my G.98/40..... Oh yea, maybe that'd be a good entry for the Nov. purchases.... THough I've had it for a while now.
 
Dunno if it counts or not, but I just took delivery of 1000 once-fired Lake City 1969 dated .30-06 brass. It's not machine gun stuff either. It's range brass from a John C. Garand match, so it's all fired from M1's an M1903's. Good, reloadable brass :) The tumbler is working as we speak, now to adjust my primer pocket swager for this batch and I'll be back in business :) (I was running low on brass for the .30-06's due to the volume of milsurp .30-06 brass I had converted to other calibers these last years from my last 1000 lot of LC69)
 
Yes, the price was more than reasonable. The seller still has some left, he is posting on the G/K43 forums.

Thanks for the comments fellas. I just wish I had enough spare magazines to fill them!!!
 
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