What did Santa bring?

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Wondering how many good little gun nutz there were this year? Mommabear bought me a Ross MkII 3* and a very nice receiver mounted target sight for it from a fellow on here. Its my first full length stocked Ross. All its missing is about an inch off the butt, a bunch of sawdust including the information stamps off the right side of the butt, the sliding door on the butt plate and I stole a sight hood off one of my other restoration projects for the time being. The bore cleaned up quite nicely, tons of rifling left but fairly dark grooves and lightly pitted, should still shoot well and I plan on shooting it to death! I have a spare barrel and many spare parts for this one thanks to another generous CGNer, so no worries at all there. I'm going to try and build a proper cross bolt for the target sight and some decent spacer washers to keep the attaching arms off the stock. Oh, and the bolt it came with must have been a mis match to the rifle, DP stamped and in rough shape, so I swapped it for another from my spares bin. I'll have to check headspace before I take it out.

For a full stocked Ross on a budget, I think she did very well!

Thanks a bunch to the CGNer who she bought this from, it was a much much better deal than we had anticipated.

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Wow, Santa was very good to some of my favorite CGN'ers

Santa blessed me with great weather last night so I went for a nice midnight snowmobile ride. And today we played with my brothers new K31. Been a great Christmas!!
 
Very nice Jan and ballsofice!

Tinman, forgot to give you the invite but if you ever feel the desire to go ride the mtns it would be another great excuse to get together. We have the best alpine riding in the world two hours from my house.
 
got a 1956 Tula SKS. and 1340 rounds. xmas day shoot on the beach. 30 rds at 50 yds. shoots slightly left, about 6-7 cm. i guess i`ll have to compensate my aim until i get a sight adjustment tool.
and a pair of panama pants.
7 yr old son got 2.5 inch, 3 round group at 50 yds as well. 22LR bolt action with iron sights. he only fired 3. got cold. my groupings… i might need new glasses
congrats on the pistol and the ross and the steyr.
 
Santa mailed me a decent Type III milled Russian AK47, but it didn't get here in time, so I contented myself with completing two M1 carbine builds.
 
flying pig said:
Very nice Jan and ballsofice!

Tinman, forgot to give you the invite but if you ever feel the desire to go ride the mtns it would be another great excuse to get together. We have the best alpine riding in the world two hours from my house.
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That would be a welcome change from the flat land 90 plus mile an hour riding we do here. The only mountains around here are the 5' snow drifts that pop up on the trail at the most inopportune times!!
 
I got a couple gun socks and some targets as well as a Cabela's gift card.

The kids though got the real goods. My daughter got a limited edition Ruger 10/22 compact with a pink laminate stock and the boy got a Norinco JW-14.

I phoned PR too late to get my matching byf 44 b block in time for Christmas so it'll be a late present for myself.:D
 
Santa was very kind to my family and I in the personal history department this year. A good friend of mine sold me a Gewehr 1871.84 that is unit marked to my great great grandfather's regiment in former East Prussia when he was stationed with the unit at the same time as the rifle. To think that a century ago, my direct ancestor may have touched this very rifle too :).

I hope everyone's milsurp acquisition went well this Christmas season :).
 
"Santa" didn't leave anything on the tree, but he did send an email to John Denner putting my name on a very nice P1908 cavaly saber, dated 2/18 and regimentally marked to the Fort Garry Horse. I find it pretty remarkable, but a quick scan of the FGH war diaries tells me that even during the 100 Days Offensive at the end of the war, they were still making mounted charges with swords drawn! Won't be hear for a few weeks until Mr. Denner gets back from the holidays, but he was kind of enough to respond to an email on Christmas Day, which is all sorts of dedicated.
 
Nabs said:
Santa was very kind to my family and I in the personal history department this year. A good friend of mine sold me a Gewehr 1871.84 that is unit marked to my great great grandfather's regiment in former East Prussia when he was stationed with the unit at the same time as the rifle. To think that a century ago, my direct ancestor may have touched this very rifle too :).

I hope everyone's milsurp acquisition went well this Christmas season :).
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That is amazing!!!! :)

Do you happen to have your Great Great Opas Military records? I wonder how far down the line he was from your new acquisition?
 
At the moment, I only have some basic information from a family tree that my great uncle and great grandfather made (my great great grandfather's sons) and it gives his rank, time of service, regimental name and number, and where he was stationed.

He was a Vizefeldwebel so there is a good chance he either handed out or inspected this rifle at one point during his service with the regiment. I have one picture of my great great grandfather in uniform and it was taken at the time he was with the regiment. If you look closely at his epaulette, you can see the regiment number that matches the family tree and the rifle's unit marking. It is a shame it is a black and white photo, the German uniforms of that period were a beautiful dark blue with different piping colours to distinguish particular units. At the moment, I am trying to recreate a dark blue uniform from his regiment to go along with this rifle.

I was planning on making a new thread on the milsurp board as I finish the clean up and inspection work on this 71.84. It makes me wonder how many other collectors have found a milsurp on the open market that relates to their family history like this ?

She isn't simply a rifle, or a piece of history, she has become a piece of family history. I can't wait to take this rifle out to the range :D.

Desert_Fox said:
That is amazing!!!! :)

Do you happen to have your Great Great Opas Military records? I wonder how far down the line he was from your new acquisition?
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my great uncles were prussian artillery. grandmother had a photo of them sitting on a field artillery piece on the piano before she passed, photo was "lost" in the ensuing inheritance grab along with a full wood rifle ( i don`t know what it was)and bayonet that may or may not have belonged to either of them. i think i know who has them, but with 9 aunts and 3 uncles in on that…...
 
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