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Thread: Favorite Millsurps

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    Krag for me--isnt this a fascinating thread? I keep wondering how some of these clunkers got to be anyone's favorite, but I'll just keep quiet on which...........Different strokes and all that!

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    K31 followed by the 03A3. The Garands just don't do it for me, I have a couple and only break them out for the Garand matches.

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    Lee Enfield Longbranch #4 Mke 1 - still looking for a nice one up here to replace the one I sold back when I was stupid!

    K 98 Mauser, looking at one right now.

    Take Care

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    Easy choice for me.. Krags and 03/03A3 Springfields. They are no longer cheap mil-surps, but they were when I got mine. Krag No. 1 cost me $15.00 and the 03A3 cost me nothing. It was on it's way to the dumpster when I caught it on the fly. It is a minty Ogden rebuilt.

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    My favorites since I have started my humble collection are my "68 " dated Finn. M39 and my 1934 Finn. capture 91/30 and in a close second is the #4 enfield . All 3 just feel right and natural in my hands and are the rifles i started shooting comp. with and still do from time to time. And there is just something about holding a rifle with that much history with it. I just dont get that same "feeling" when shooting my non Milsurp rifles.

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    Amen RU shooter, about holding history. If these guns could only talk, imagine the stories they could tell us.

    SSB

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    Quote Originally Posted by RU shooter View Post
    My favorites since I have started my humble collection are my "68 " dated Finn. M39 and my 1934 Finn. capture 91/30 and in a close second is the #4 enfield . All 3 just feel right and natural in my hands and are the rifles i started shooting comp. with and still do from time to time. And there is just something about holding a rifle with that much history with it. I just dont get that same "feeling" when shooting my non Milsurp rifles.
    Favorite MIL-SURP I own: Fin M39, followed by the Fin M28. I have a few Russian models of Three Line Rifles ( 91/30, M44 and Model 91 Peter the Great), but the Fin's are the more accurate, and more "military" in feel (if there is such a thing). I've never shot my Russian capture Mauser, but it's in pretty rough shape.

    Favorite MIL-SURP all time: US Service Rifle M1 (Garand). Amazing rifle in it's time, and even today.

    My holy grail MILSURP: any original surviving rifle in OK shape, built by a registered gunsmith from the French Indian/Revolutionary War period. Just dig the history...

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    I like my Swede's 6.5X55 are hard to beat.

    I have a few of each most are M96's, I shoot them the best. But then I like the M94 for a woods gun...

    Tim

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    too many to choose from....

    the answer is the one i just shot a great group with .......

    or the one i'm having sucess working up a new load for....

    two russian 91/30's
    two preduce 44 98 mausers
    two finn m39's
    a carl g swede 96
    an israeli fn 7.62
    a swiss m31
    a lee enfield 303mk1
    an ishapore enfield 7.62
    a 1903-a3
    a yugo 48a
    and then there would be the semi-autos.....
    only accurate rifles are interesting

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    My favorites would be the Swedes, especially the M41's, with the sharp scopes, the Ljungmann and Hakim's, The FN 49, and a tip of the hat to Buckshot for mentioning the '08 Brazilian- very accurate even with the mil surp bought from Samco.
    Russ Neely
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