Fellow Mil-Surp collectors?

[Viper]

I was wondering how many of the folks here are into Mil-Surp and what got you turned on to them? Do you collect from a certain era or all over the place?

My mil-surp collection includes two Mosins, three Enfields, a M1 Grarand, and a K98 Mauser. I just love the fact that they have history, scratch that they are part of history. As for era mine are mostly WWII but, one of my Enfields is from WWI. I was considering expanding my collection into other eras like Korea with the purchase of another enfield or two. I have a thing for .303 Brit. my Grandmother was a English war bride and so I have a couple great uncles that were in the RAF and with 1st Para so I know they fired off quite a few .303 rounds in their time.

 

[txpete]

I have a few mosin's stacked up in the safe.

come on over for a vist if you like milsurp rifles and handguns.
pete
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[mac79912]

I got hooked when my grandfather let me shoot his 39 mauser.

 

[Charley]

I've got a couple I will admit to....

 

[jim t]

I have mosin nagants from at least 2 wars. I have a 1917 M-91, a 91\30, a 44 and a 59. I also have a enfield 303 from 43. I do want a german rifle to join the mix and a 03 springfield and M 1 but that is in the future when the money is there.

 

[baboon]

I've got a CMP Garand and a decent round bolt M-1 carbine. I regret selling the 03A3 I had when I was 18.

 

[sharky47]

I have an M-44, K98, pair of Type-99's, RFI Enfield, AK, PSL, etc......

I dig the M-44 and the K98, while it kicks like a mule - is a strait shooting gun, love it!

 

[Charley]

I've really got an accumulation, not really a collection. After checking my inventory sheet, I've got about 40 milsurps, depending on your definition.
3 Lee Enfields, a NO1MkI, NO4MkI, and a 2AMkIII
Mosin Nagants, M91,3 M91/30s, including a sniper, M27, M38, M39, 4 M44s, and an M59.
Mausers, an M91, M95, M96, 2 M96/38s, M38, G98, M1909, Vz24, 2 M24/47s, M48. A couple are cut, and I'm not counting sporters built on Mauser actions.
Mas36, Mas 49/56.
Schmidt Rubin M1911 and K31.
Arisakas, a T38 (cut, unfortunately) and T99.
Llungmann and a Hakim.
Martini Henry MkIV
Kropatschek and a Swiss Vetterli
Other odds and ends.

I like milsurps, what can I say? Everything is shootable. Just finished loading for the Vetterli, only thing I haven't tooled up for is the Kropatscek, and I guess that will be next.

 

[sykostanger]

i only have one 91/30, but i want a mauser or three and an eddystone 1917. i just like guns i think thats what got me into it

 

[308nato]

I have a M44 mosin from the 40's and a SKS built in the 70's and a
couple of M/14's now and hope to add more in the future.

 

[phatcyclist]

I have some mil-surps.

M91/30 Made at Tula in 1939 (my open-sights hunting rifle). I took a deer with this last year, 100 yard shot in the neck. I don't ever miss with this one.

K31 made in 1949. I got this because I have lots of ancestors from Switzerland, and I figured I should get one before they get hard to find. It's more accurate than I am, but I rarely shot it.

M44 Made in 1944 at Izhevsk. I gave this rifle to my brother when he graduated high school. It won't win any beauty contests, but I've polished the bolt up and it operates smooth as a Mosin can.

I love these old rifles, because it's an inexpensive way to get a real military firearm that's built to be run hard and not quit.

 

[Wayne]

Not really a collection 2 M1 Garands, Aug 1943 and a Dec 1942. Also a Chinese SKS

 

[oxbld]

Just started collecting this year, but so far I have an M1 Garand, German K98k, BSA Lee Enfield No.4 Mk.1, 1943 Soviet M44, 6 Soviet M91/30's, and a Swiss K31 on the way. That C&R license was either a great decision, or a really bad one depending on how you look at it...

 

[Viper]

Glad to hear there are so many others that like weapons with a bit of history to them.

 

[50calRay]

Does flint locks count

 

[trapper45]

My accumullection has a few Enfields and Martinis, a Mosin, a Mauser, P14, Swiss and miscellaneous. Not much of a pattern, not very systematic; but then, neither am I.

 

[Shiner Bock]

I only have a handful but I'm looking to really build a decent collection once I get a bigger safe.

 

[SO758]

garand, couple of carbines & a M - 44 mosin nagant rifle. I love the WWII era.

 

[CJGarza]

I used to have a few mil-surp stuff: Enfield #4's,a coulpe of Mausers (Yugo, Turk and German). I also had some nice pistols :Walther P1 and 2 Makarovs an East German and a Minty Bulgarian, man I miss those pistols , but especially the Enfields .

 

[Bexar county TX]

Not really a collector of C&R rifles I have a couple of them a Mosin Nagant M44 a Garand M1 carbine and a Chinese SKS. The Garand and M1 were given to me by my grand father.