Which is your Single Favorite Milsurp in your Collection and Why?

1943 Longbranch - because it was made in my hometown and may have contributed to the allied victory, and thus one or possible two of the below occurred

1) It was used by a brave Canadian to bring into battle
2) If it never saw combat, a dedicated Canadian women built it with sweat and possibly tears.
 
Hands down, my 1950 Long Branch Lee Enfield (as yet, in UNFIRED condition), for several reasons. It's from my home town, in fact just south of me at the lakeshore, it's made the year I was born, I had one before but had to sell it during some very lean times, and I still feel it's the most iconic of Canadian firearms next to the Ross rifle.
 
Easy. My Garand. Easy to use, kicks the crap out of whatever you are shooting at. Easy to load for.

Even many baby boomers never got to fire one. Many are surprised about how deadly and accurate they are.

What a hoot to shoot !
 
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this one that my god father gave me when i was 10
 
1874/80/14 French Gras in 8x50 Lebel.

Simple yet not crude,easy to clean,easy to reload for and IMHO beautiful beyond description.
 
Can't resist..

My first gun purchase was an AG-42B Ljungman...

Bought it at auction under my Dad's FAC. 80 Bucks, over 25 years ago... No one at the auction knew a thing about it. Everyone (including die-hard shooters) jumped back when that action snapped shut! I got my first deer(s) with it and, was teased (by the same die hard shooters) for lugging it around brushing/dogging for deer. As rifles go (in general) they are awesome. For my experiences...priceless.


Since then, I added my Dad's Mauser but, honestly, it's not the same thing...his first deer(and moose) was just meat and, before I was born! His VZ is just a rifle [with patriarchal sentimentality] ...mine is MINE!

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The "sporty" .303 in the pic is a buddy's and doesn't count....no known deer.
 
Its a tough question..... I love alls my milsurp but even if wasn't my first, i have a special feeling for my M1891 Mosin Nagant. Tula,1915 dated, has the finnish SA stamp,finn spliced stock. Its a blast from the Imperial Russia, i wonder what that old mosin would tell:) I love the look with the very long barrel, rugged rifle and a very good shooter. Didn't shoot it since manys years but now that i have fews crates of ammo, i will put back the old mosin in service:D
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Right now my favorite milsurps are the german k98k.

I favorite is my Dou44 k98k in a sporter. All matching numbers.

but since it was cut its half hunting half milsurp.

my favorite 100% milsurp is my 1917 russian mosin nagant 1891. Picked her up for 125 and its in mint conditon,
 
Used to be my M1 garand...

Then I got my mosin nagant sniper repro. I find no matter what guns I bring to the range, I always go back to the scoped mosin. It's an accurate gun that surprises me every trip to the range. She puts on a great show for being in her 70's.
 
RMXC51 said:
A 1940 SVT40 I named Lyudmila, for obvious reasons. See the link below (LANGUAGE WARNING)

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It says she used a Mosin, but really an SVT (see pic).
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I admire your enthusiasm, but I would have chose a better article of her to link here. Something about that one screams 'lowest common denominator' to me. Also she scored here first 2 kills with a Mosin.

My favorite would have to me one of my enfields. Which one, I am not sure. Probably my '42 Maltby No4 Mk1, b/c its the one I used when a friend and I got to kill a pontiac 6000. We started with SP hunting ammo. They just buried itself in the engine block and pieces of bullet came to rest in the passenger seat (after traveling through the dash, firewall, and extremities of the engine). Then we switched to FMJ's, and they started to penetrate much better.

The last round we fired, went through the firewall-dashboard-steering column-driver seat (both the foam then the steel support withing the seat)-rear seat, and finally the frame around the rear window, taking pieces of the car with it. Some where along the line it shed the jacket, b/c I cut the seat apart and found pieces of copper jacket in the foam. (along with pieces of dashboard and steering column).

You can read articles and see video and picture, but it really helps to put things into perspective when you can view the damage first hand. We figured that if there were people in the car, that the driver would be dead, the guy behind him probably, and we were not to sure about anyone behind the car, b/c the first two would have slowed the bullet down, but they would not get away unscathed.
 
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