What was the first milsurp rifle you bought?

Quiet said:
I bought my first actual milsurp when I was still a teenager in highschool and it was a Czech Vz52 in the original calibre with some painted arab writing on the buttstock. For about $130 I got the rifle and a full grocery bag of surplus 7.62x45 on clips. I bought it without knowing anything about the history or what it was but I recall unwrapping it in the dim light of the basement and looking at all the dings and scratches wondering where it had been and what wars it had seen. The strong smell of the old grease and the weight of it in my hands made it really feel like this was something old & powerful. I was hooked!
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That's s pretty cool story.
 
CountryAndCalibre said:
........please tell me you still have that...???
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You bet, she's nestled in the safe with plenty of her brethren to keep her company. It was dumb luck - I was young, didn't know anything about milsurps at the time and it was just an 'old WW2 Nazi gun'.. Thankfully I didn't mess around with it and it wasn't 'till later when I started doing my homework and I realized just what I had. Thinking about it now while writing this, it's almost like drug deal with the milsurp Gods...the first one was cheap and got me hooked, but boy oh boy, the SECOND #'s matching vet bringback K98 cost me a helluva lot more ;)
 
No. 1 Mk. III Lee Enfield from Eaton's, stacked like cordwood. Somewhat battered condition and loaded with grease, $9.95 in about 1963 or 1964.
 
Lee Enfield full military No. 4 rifle and a hundred rounds of ball ammo-from International Firearms mail ordered from down east and shipped to my door--when i was 14 years old, a long time ago--don't remember the price but i do know it was less than $75.00 shipped. It was pretty rough and I sporterized it into a hunting rifle--the ammo was british loaded cordite. It was the only one of many surplus owned over the years that got sporterized.
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Dad bought me a No. 4 Lee Enfield from small town Saskatchewan Macleod's Hardware store - $16.99 or $19.99 - not sure - about 1968. I shot at many deer with it, never did get one, though, not with that rifle. Last year (2020), my just younger brother still had it, in a scabbard on his mountain snowmobile in Western Alberta - was his "walking out / survival gun" if that high end machine gives up the ghost in that back country out there...
 
Fisrst place first lee enfield,and ....

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M38 Swede in early 80's from LeBaron's in Mississauga . Eighty bucks. I still have it. My most accurate milsurp and I've had more than a few! Factory ammo was impossible to find at that time. Found 60 Norma brass ,started handloading have never looked back.
 
First gun as well. It was a sporter but I put it back in that time frame where it was cheaper. I think I have $300 into it when a matching one was $400-$500. If it was for sale I would do well but this one will be buried with me

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