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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:24:21 PM EDT
What type of guns do you like to have around because they're neat?
I'm 40 and remember going to gun stores with my dad as a kid and picking up nearly every gun on the racks on the floor. I just like working the actions and shouldering them at the heads on the walls. I'm not that well traveled here in NH to all the shops because they're all pretty far apart but I have a feeling my son might miss out on that type of weekly expedition I had as a kid. So I've been trying to snag a few old neat milsurps for him to mess around with when he gets older.  Attached FileGot a couple m1903s recently  Attached FileAnd a 1916 short rifle in .308  Attached FileWorking on my daughter too  Attached FileI feel like I need a Mosin, an sks, a mauser m98, a krag, and now I kinda want a trapdoor Springfield. What's your favorite? |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:30:13 PM EDT
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Would love to have the Krag that my dad had for a deer rifle, smoothest action ever on those rifles.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:30:51 PM EDT
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I have the following:
2 SMLEs 1 1903 and 1 1903a3 1 K-98 1 MAS 36 1 M-39 Finn 1 Martini Henry I like them all. But the SMLE and 1903s are my favorite MAS 36 is close behind those |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:31:26 PM EDT
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My local shops used to have a bunch of cool old .22 rifles priced rather low. I bought a Glenfield Marlin semi auto, considered a few more but didn't buy anything and now everything in that category is expensive. I don't have anything bigger than 5.56 (and I should fix that) but that means buying a milsurp or other old rifle requires getting into another caliber and I can't afford that now. I'm not even really set up with what I do have.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:33:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JMD: I have the following: 2 SMLEs 1 1903 and 1 1903a3 1 K-98 1 MAS 36 1 M-39 Finn 1 Martini Henry I like them all. But the SMLE and 1903s are my favorite MAS 36 is close behind those Yeah, add an Enfield to my list |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:33:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 03shooter: Would love to have the Krag that my dad had for a deer rifle, smoothest action ever on those rifles. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:34:04 PM EDT
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Need to get a .30 carbine. Easy on the kids, and fun to shoot. & gives you an excuse to get a blackhawk in .30 carbine
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:34:20 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Trumpet]
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Originally Posted By 03RN: I feel like I need a Mosin, an sks, a mauser m98, a krag, and now I kinda want a trapdoor Springfield. What's your favorite? For the prices they're going for now...no you don't. Seriously. I got an M44 20+ years ago for $45. No WAY would I pay for that (utilitarian) POS what they're going for now. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:35:02 PM EDT
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To me it would be an old Winchester 94 30-30 and a Nylon 66 .22.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:35:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:35:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hbilly: Need to get a .30 carbine. Easy on the kids, and fun to shoot. & gives you an excuse to get a blackhawk in .30 carbine |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:36:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brachiosaur: My local shops used to have a bunch of cool old .22 rifles priced rather low. I bought a Glenfield Marlin semi auto, considered a few more but didn't buy anything and now everything in that category is expensive. I don't have anything bigger than 5.56 (and I should fix that) but that means buying a milsurp or other old rifle requires getting into another caliber and I can't afford that now. I'm not even really set up with what I do have. Yeah, I loved looking at the 22s as a kid since that's what I typically shot. Both my 22s are older than me I think. One of the reason I got the 1916 short rifle in .308 was because I have a ton of it. I also shoot and load 7x57 for my ruger m77 so I guess I should get another one in that one too |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:37:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Trumpet: For the prices they're going for now...no you don't. Seriously. I got an M44 20+ years ago for $45. No WAY would I pay for that (utilitarian) POS what they're going for now. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Trumpet: Originally Posted By 03RN: I feel like I need a Mosin, an sks, a mauser m98, a krag, and now I kinda want a trapdoor Springfield. What's your favorite? For the prices they're going for now...no you don't. Seriously. I got an M44 20+ years ago for $45. No WAY would I pay for that (utilitarian) POS what they're going for now. I still see them go at $200. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:37:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 03RN: Yeah, add an Enfield to my list Need a slaz marked "smelly" to match the bayonet I already have 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:37:43 PM EDT
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My list...
Enfield Swede Mauser FR-8 Remington 660 in .308 and many others... |
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NJ, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:38:52 PM EDT
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Bar non favorite today is a 16" fal.
After that my ag42 Handgun it's a tossup between the dreyse or Enfield revolver. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:39:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 03RN: I still see them go at $200. For that, maybe. Certainly no more than that. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:39:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 03RN: Those are beautiful Sadly not mine.. 2 that I built for customers. I really wanted to keep the sharps. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:41:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Trumpet: For that, maybe. Certainly no more than that. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Trumpet: Originally Posted By 03RN: I still see them go at $200. For that, maybe. Certainly no more than that. I figure $89 in 2000 is close to that today. |
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MO, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:41:32 PM EDT
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Go for a Springfield Armory 1922 M2... a G.I. 22LR built on a 1903 action. Accurate, cheap to shoot and he'll probably have the only one on the block. Way scarcer than 1903s and 03 a3s.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:41:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fat_McNasty: Sadly not mine.. 2 that I built for customers. I really wanted to keep the sharps. What did you do in terms of the builds? |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:42:18 PM EDT
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I have a bonch of old guns. Lots of .22s. New stuff mostly doesn't interest me much, except maybe Winchester model 70s and a few others.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:46:04 PM EDT
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I don't pay much attention to gun designs that are less than ~40 years old; "new" just doesn't interest me much. I didn't get into ARs until they had been in military service for over 40 years. Almost all of my guns are milsurps or based on old military designs. Two recent exceptions are a couple of modern polymer-framed guns that I bought (SIG & FN), to be used for CCW and as a bump-in-the-night bedside gun.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:46:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 03RN: What did you do in terms of the builds? Everything. they were both rusted stripped actions. and 2 unfinished barrel blanks. We did the Color case/bluing, stock work, and chambered the barrels. Made any pieces that were missing. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:03:04 PM EDT
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I have a bunch of old milsurp rifles, but my favorite are my Garands by far.
A close second is would be my Venezuelan contract FN-49 in 7mm Mauser. A very nice rifle in a smooth shooting cartridge. As for bolt actions, it's hard to beat an Enfield No.4 mk2. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:18:36 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Banshee35]
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I like weird stuff. Just picked this up today
Not old but pre-86   Attached FileGot this a while back  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:20:09 PM EDT
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Old milsurps? Who would want those things?
 Certainly not me. Nope. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:51:48 PM EDT
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My grandfather taught me to shoot on a Winchester 1902 single shot. That rifle is long gone, but I found another one (the only other one I have ever seen) in a local shop, so I picked it up for sentimental reasons. I've got an old E Phillips percussion rifle from the mid 1800s, and my uncle just gave me my great-great grandfather's old percussion rifle, made in the same time frame. I can't remember the make of that one at the moment though.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:57:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:57:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By R2point0: My uncle used one for deer in the PA woods for decades. First time I cycled the action I couldn't believe how smooth it was. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By R2point0: Originally Posted By 03shooter: Would love to have the Krag that my dad had for a deer rifle, smoothest action ever on those rifles. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:02:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:23:39 PM EDT
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Cool thread OP
 I lament, on occasion, what I failed to purchase when I had my FFL - back in the early 90s'. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:34:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:13:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hbilly: Need to get a .30 carbine. Easy on the kids, and fun to shoot. & gives you an excuse to get a blackhawk in .30 carbine Good choice. 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:28:08 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By MVolkJ: Old milsurps? Who would want those things? https://i.imgur.com/EFPB0qM.jpg Certainly not me. Nope. Originally Posted By ACDer: Just a couple of old calvary carbines.. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/69887/1000003714_jpg-3198929.JPG That's what I'm talking about 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:33:27 PM EDT
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Garands and Mausers are never a bad choice.
Neither are lever actions, cowboy revolvers, or muzzleloaders of all description. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:39:04 PM EDT
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NV, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:39:49 PM EDT
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Winchester model 90
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:41:58 PM EDT
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Just my beat up old Browning Auto Five. |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:45:32 PM EDT
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I like my Garand, Carbine, Mosin, and SKS.
The SKS is the most practical to shoot.. even now 7.62x39 is affordable to shoot, doesn't murder your shoulder, and can be easily found. Nonetheless, I just picked up this cool 22lr for $125. Glenfield Marlin 75C. An old odd 22lr of your preferred flavor would fit in very nicely. 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:45:33 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Windustsearch]
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 Attached FileCrappy old potato pic. 1884 Trapdoor (1886), Newton Arms .256 Newton (1916) with Weaver 330. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:58:44 PM EDT
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I have a few, but really should have picked up a lot more when availability was higher and prices were lower. Want a Krag carbine, but not at those prices.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 12:02:53 AM EDT
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Would love to find my dad's lever action savage 250-3000 that he loaned out and then the guy sold it.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 12:22:24 AM EDT
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The SMLE is great fun for us, the trapdoor is too as the manual manipulation of those is neat.
I don't have a Krag but they are slick, fun rifles. Old pump .22's are fun and can be very fast. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 1:00:44 AM EDT
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Almost all of my guns are rare and/or unusual. That's the reason I bought them most of the time.
I got my Swedish BAR Kg m/37 because its different than the usual BARs you see in the US and is a better gun than a US BAR. The barrel is also quick change and it is chambered in 6.5 Swede. It will be 100 years old in 2027 and still looks near new.  My ZB26 is not as rare as my Swede Kg m/37 but it a neat gun with a lot of neat features. It will be 100 in 2031.  |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 1:25:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By baogongmeo: Go for a Springfield Armory 1922 M2... a G.I. 22LR built on a 1903 action. Accurate, cheap to shoot and he'll probably have the only one on the block. Way scarcer than 1903s and 03 a3s. There’s one in AZ on a local forum right now for $3k and the seller is claiming that’s a bargain. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 1:28:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sgthatred: Almost all of my guns are rare and/or unusual. That's the reason I bought them most of the time. I got my Swedish BAR Kg m/37 because its different than the usual BARs you see in the US and is a better gun than a US BAR. The barrel is also quick change and it is chambered in 6.5 Swede. It will be 100 years old in 2027 and still looks near new. http://weaponblueprints.com/mongo/pictures/Swedish-Kgm37/Kg-m37/Swedish-m37-left-small.jpg My ZB26 is not as rare as my Swede Kg m/37 but it a neat gun with a lot of neat features. It will be 100 in 2031. http://weaponblueprints.com/mongo/pictures/ZB26/ZB26-right.jpg How many of those Swedes in the US? |
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AL, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 1:38:23 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Bign]
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Old Remington Model 12 punp action 22s are cool and affordable.
I have a couple of 12c versions. They were made a long time and you can still find parts for them also. I had friends younger kids prefer them to the ARs in 22lr, 10/22s, and a Walther MP5 22 clones, etc 
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Posted: 4/27/2024 1:45:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bign: Old Remington Model 12 punp action 22s are cool and affordable. I have a couple of 12c versions. They were made a long time and you can still find parts for them also. I had friends younger kids prefer them to the ARs in 22lr, 10/22s, and a Walther MP5 22 clones, etc https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/7482/8787466_1.jpg?v=8CC7F049ADD04D0 Couldn't agree more. Remington Mod 12, Winchester 1890, 1906, 62, 61, are outstanding. Extremely well built, and accurate. I love the Winchester's ability to slam fire. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 3:12:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FightingHellfish: How many of those Swedes in the US? |
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