Only milsurps

all of my firearms are Milsurp i have 8 of them!! i dont have any interest in black gun or someting like that. at this time i have 3 italian,2japanese,1 german,1 russian, 1 french Rifle and much more in the future!!! :)

like Tinman204 Said... the Reloading is the way i have 8 rifle in 6 diferent caliber... Arisaka, Carcano, Mauser k98, MAs 36 needs a reloading kit for SURE!!!


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Just about half my guns are milsurps, even though I spend most of my time plinking with black rifles and handguns. It mainly just boils down to where I can shoot, and who I go shooting with. If I had some of my own land, I'd spend a lot more time with my milsurps... and I'd have more than just one or two of each.
 
I'm about 75:25 in favour of the military stuff as to numbers here.

In shooting, it's about 95% military.

I own TWO very good commercial bolt rifles. One of them (BSA Custom Shop special) started as an M-1917 and still has the 1917 barrel, the other (Remington Model 30 Express) was designed directly from the M-1917 and has some military parts! My A.G. Parker sporter started off as a Lee-Metford Mark II and 2 of my Cooeys started off in Italy. Milsurps! Really hard to get away rom sometimes!

And they ALL want to be fed.

Handloading, of course: the ONLY way you can afford to shoot some of them. 9mm Steyr is $1 shot, reloads for 4 to 10 cents. Webley .455 reloads for less than a dime, costs over a buck IF you can find any. Not all that many years ago, Norma was the only 7.62x54R available in Canada. It sold for $69.95 a box of 20 rounds, plus tax, but the cost and components are EXACTLY the same as for the .303! If not for handloading, I would have had to give up shooting in 1965!

It's fun!
 
I mainly enjoy shooting milsurps and similar guns (i.e. M305) though I dabble a bit in everything.

Yesterday was a fitting day to take an SKS and Mosin to the range, and I discovered several other milsurp fans, so we had lots to share and talk about. I was pleased with the accuracy out of the Mosin after I figured out my precise POA, but was even more suprised when a friend of mine managed to hit a 200m gong pretty much every time from the standing position with my SKS. I was a bit too tired by that point to manage any more than two or three hits out of several shots, but have set a new goal for this year of being able to consistently hit the gong from standing with an SKS (maybe a Mosin or SVT to follow) at 200 yards.
 
I am a Mauser guy myself.The fit and finish on those pre-war rifles always intrigued me.For rifles built for battle and before computer assisted machining the craftsmanship is pretty amazing,even the crests on the receiver are beautifully done. Mosins on the other hand amaze me by their Soviet style 'Not polished pretty" but tough and dependable,built for rough use(Like the Soviet t-34 sitting beside the German Panther at the Ottawa museum) You can see how the Soviets cared about function over form,whereas the Germans tended to over engineer their equipment.
 
I'm about 75:25 in favour of the military stuff as to numbers here.

About the same here.
Hey Smellie I'm hoping my ERA P-14 sporter will be in tomorrow. Might have to get some accuracy tips from you.
Cheers
Tokguy
 
Around my place we are running at about 50-50 at present but back in the early 70's when I got going it was nearly 100% military rifles,all bolt actions except for an AG-42B semi-auto.The only "civilian" guns I had at the time was a Model70 Win.30-06 and a Cooey Model 600 .22 rimfire.My Dad had a few other guns as well but all were non-military.I actually bought most of my rifles in military numbers because I was absolutely rabid about handloading and some of those un-common calibers were just what I was looking for as it made things interesting to say the least sourcing components and all.It's much easier now to handload for a lot of calibers than it used to be but the enjoyment is still there.I so wish I still had all of those early purchases,some of those rifles were in really,really nice shape.
 
Bought most of my rifles from International Firearms out of Quebec.They used to mail me catalogs and I used to mail them lots of money orders. I remember Swedish M96s for $79.00 and M38s for $99.00 Mosin-Nagants were like $49.00.Those were good days
 
vstar650ca said:
Bought most of my rifles from International Firearms out of Quebec.They used to mail me catalogs and I used to mail them lots of money orders. I remember Swedish M96s for $79.00 and M38s for $99.00 Mosin-Nagants were like $49.00.Those were good days
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You and me both!!For awhile half of my disposable income was going to International Firearms and the other half was going to SIR mailorder in Winnipeg.Yeah,those were great times.
 
Milsurp .22's
How about these two?
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One's a tube gun and one's a magazine fed.
 
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Had two of the same view, had to edit that to a different picture.
The full length wood one is my son's, and he did the re constructive work on the sporters wood too.
It was free (the sporter) but it was pretty badly mistreated. Smashed stock, no trigger guard, no magazine and the front sight was pretty rusty too.
My son did most of the work; credit where credit is due
 
90% of my rifles are milsurps. The history behind these old war horses is very interesting to me. If they could talk what kind of stories would they tell? I live on a farm so shooting any non-restricted rifles are fun, but its a bonus for the old war horses lol
 
A lot, but not all, of my shooting involves milsurps. If it's in .303 or some defunct calibre, I'm all over it.

For those who have posted about looking for excuses to dust off their milsurps this year, let me put in a plug here for a Ross Rifle and Battle Rifle shoot taking place west of Calgary in July. Information is posted in the Events and Gathering section here on CGN, but more complete information can be found here: http://www.btsa.ca/matches/index.php/registration-for-matchs/. Scroll down the list to July until you see the listing.

Oh, and here's my addition to the milsurp in .22 discussion.

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