You know you're a milsurp collector when.....

[H Wally]

.... a cosmolene rag accidentally gets into the laundry pile, and you spend 30 minutes scrubbing the inside of the washing machine with hot water and soap.



How do you know you're a milsurp collector?

 

[Ar180shooter]

When you have an "Enfield" safe, a "Mauser" safe and an "Assorted other milsurps" safe.

 

[Skippy]

...when your deer rifle weighs twice as much as anyone elses in camp, and it has provisions for mounting a bayonet.

 

[desporterizer]

When you bump your mg34 loading a 2 gallon bucket of boiled linseed oil into your sidecar.

 

[Stevo]

.....when you start a fire in your gun room with that BLO rag you didn't dry out properly.

 

[Northman999]

When you purposely buy a firearm for which ammo cannot be purchased, but are hoping to hand make bullets and brass for, at a shameless expense of money and time.

 

[Cocked&Locked]

......when you can't see the sense of purchasing any rifle that you don't have to spend the next 3 months to find a matching bayonet for, or any rifle that doesn't take a bayonet period?

 

[Pocketfisherman]

I have three sweaters in three colors. Blue, Black and Cosmoline.

 

[louthepou]

A sign on your front door reads "non-pitted, non-frosted bores need not apply" ?

 

[Crisco 1]

When you buy an Enfield to burn off the 2 crates of surplus you have in the basement?

 

[woodchopper]

When you purposely buy a firearm for which ammo cannot be purchased, but are hoping to hand make bullets and brass for, at a shameless expense of money and time.

but then I found suitable brass, only $3/case

but now that I'm set up to reload I need to buy a few more rifles of the same caliber to help offset the cost of tooling up to reload

 

[Woodbeef]

When almost all of your guns have a stamped date of manufacture on them.

 

[Claven2]

When the local gunsmith calls you to help ID and appraise the milsurp guns coming into the shop - LOL.

 

[ArtyMan]

When your gun collection dates from between 1897 and 1944!

 

[5440fight]

When you swell with pride when you hear coalition forces fear taliban marksmen with Lee Enfields. Hope no one got hurt, but the ole girl still has it...http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/a-firsthand-look-at-firefights-in-marja/

 

[SKScanuck]

When you have ### with your wife and accidentally call her Mosin!

 

[Greenfields]

You don't put your mausers and Enfields in the same safe, because you don't want them to argue.

 

[bobfortier]

When you never paid over 200$ for a rifle

When you buy a sporterized, just to be able to restore it, even if you know it will cost you about twice the ammount to do so...

 

[bobfortier]

...when your deer rifle weighs twice as much as anyone elses in camp, and it has provisions for mounting a bayonet.

This is so true...

 

[junkman]

When you start buying guns that don't even belong in your collection because it was a good price and it would make a good trader.