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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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!
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.
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
Bob
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Its been months since I bought the book, "How to scam people online". It still has not arrived yet!
"If the human population held hands around the equator, a significant portion of them would drown"
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.
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.
Amen RU shooter, about holding history. If these guns could only talk, imagine the stories they could tell us.
SSB
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.Originally Posted by RU shooter
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...
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
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
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
milkman-06
in SW Mo near beautiful Freistatt
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