/msg/ military surplus general

Beretta 92S, P83s are still available on JG Sales for $250, Bulgarian Makarov, Yugo Mausers and Star BMs.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was just sitting on a stack of them and pulling this same "whoops im out" BS every 100 rifles.

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Cabelas got a big shipment last year. There's still rifles out there, just not in the same quantities that there used to be.

If you go to pawn shops or gun shows you can find them.

Can you be more specific?

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At least his swiss rifles seem to be in ok shape. I still need a 1889, a k11 and a 1911 long rifle to complete my reasonable collection.

The ZFK 55, 42/43 and the 1893 are a little much for me to justify.

I have a nice M57 tokarev that I removed the bubba trigger safety on so now the pistol is in its original configuration. It shoots great, the only problem is it’s about 12 inches high at 25 yards. Would it be sacrilege to have a smith install some adjustable sights? It’s pretty much unusable as is

Mausers and nuggets. Not the ultimate collectors edition, but the common versions. Whats a good buy?

I got two sino soviets from two different providers back in my c&r days. Circa 2013. Closest to Soviet made I have and still only 299 a piece.

You want a nugget if you can still find cheap 54r for it. I dont know I stockpiled all that years ago and still have it mostly sealed up. Mauser 8mm is hard to come by sometimes. In reality my bolt guns became loaner guns in a shtf scenario. Only exceptions are the k31s for which I have reloading dies when the gp11 runs out.

>you will never go to your first gunshow and see a crate of $99 mosins and look through those cosmo caked slimy bastards.

Nuggets are still worth buying, IMO. As long as you know that they're not all that great, cheap steel cased stuff will keep them shooting for a while.

Theyll always be worth having over no rifle at all. If someones serious about getting one these days, if you cant find a finned model get a tula.

Surplus drying up hurt the mosin game more then anything, they still are the cheapest milsurp rifle and are perfectly servicable, but ammo costing more then .308 will steer a alot of people away.

I had just gotten into the surplus game in 2011. Back then you could still get the 89-109$ specials. 54r was under 100 a can of 440. What killed the nugget was Obama sanctioning Russian firearm imports and then the Ukraine civil war. Most 54r came out of Ukraine before it became repurposed as emergency rations.

Be honest with me, how muc differently does an M44 shoot with the bayonet folded? I love the way it looks but I’ve heard it shoots off-center. That makes me want an M38/39 more.

Or a Venez/Isr K31 lol

Yeah, I've been debating whether I should go for a 96/11 or just call it good with the regular 11, I'm leaning towards the latter, in which case I have a basic set of them.

I REALLY want a ZfK though, just because of that weird receiver.

You can get nuggets under $300 with a little looking or haggling. "Mauser" is an EXTREMELY broad range though. Turks can be had for under 300, Spanish for 2 to 4 hundred. Most others are a bit higher, but not too much, then there's ones that are rare and super expensive like the Vz. 33.

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M1 Carbine problem. Looks like it wont feed the first round properly. My guess is this is a magazine issue although the gun had 0 grease on it at the time.
First round seems to get stopped right at the chamber. Angle from the magazine to the feed ramp seems low. all I have are these shitty pics for now. The gun fires and feeds fine if I cup the magazine and put upward pressure on it.
Magazines tried are both USGI inland and a quality hardware

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That wood looks dry as fuck, put some linseed on it.

Had that problem once upon a time, replace the recoil spring.

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Take a Tok then pass it

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Mmmm surp

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I sometimes tuck an old sawed off Lee Enfield to walk to the store
It's a total hackjob and the sling is a belt nailed into the wood

Just the op rod spring really? I figured it was a problem with the magazine like the follower or the mag sping

Nice M1 carbine mag slection

Stanley Works
Union Hardware
Rock-Ola (presumably Union Hardware was the subcontractor)
and two Autotyre Inlands

1939 sako m39 on a 1986 tula receiver

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>tfw you have a $200.00 Finn'd Tula.

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Hey Jow Forums I'm about to purchase my first firearm and I was wondering what price range should I be looking at for a enfield no4? Thanks

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Yessir, that was enough for mine. I hope it is for you too.
Thanks, the Rockola is a recent buy too.

Honestly? Mine isn't too off. Maybe two inches at one hundred yards. I haven't done a side by side on paper, but that's largely because I haven't noticed a big enough difference to want to.

You can easily find turks/chileans/etc for $200ish if you're willing to lurk gunbroker for a month or two. Just saw a chilean in solid condition go for $220 shipped.

Every rifle is different, but they were zeroed with it extended, mine is dead on with it extended, you can simply adjust the windage if you want it to shoot with it folded.

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Discord, if anyone wants to join.

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Dont get a Surplus gun for your first firearm. Get a .22 or an AR first to leverage your'self into the shooting scene first.

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$300-500.

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This.

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user listen to them and me. For a first time gun buyer get a .22 or if you must insist on a 'real' caliber find an el cheapo AR-15 for less than $400...I mean fuck you can build an AR for less than you can buy a mosin for in the current market. A PSA rifle kit is usually around the very, very low $300 mark or even high $290 area. and an Anderson lower on classic atm is $33.

I only say this because pic related was my first rifle. I do like it for its historical value but its horrid for a new shooter to learn on.

But. If you insist on a Lee Enfield consider an Ishapore 2A or 2A1. They can be found on GB for less than $400 on a good day and you can use DAG German training ammo in them which has no kick to it and online is only about .18 cents per round, but I would personally still recommend a .22 or AR.

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So i've grown up around fire arms my entire life so this isn't the fist time I've fired a gun. This is just my first firearm that I will own my self.

first *

300 is a good price, expect 400 if you want to buy sooner rather than later.

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What’s the best surplus wool blanket on the market these days?

I have a red stripe Dutch marines one I got for $50 years ago and it’s by far the best blanket I’ve ever had in my life. It’s huge and heavy and warm AF. I guess people caught on cause some bastard is selling them for fucking $450 on eBay now

Any tips? I’ll suck your dick if you find me one. Or one of the Khaki Italian Air Force blankets too.

This is the milsurp gat thread. We don't really do things that don't shoot or stab.

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brought my own

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>repro ushanka

I'm not spending $30 on a hat

p o o r

Yes, I'm poor. Why do you think I buy cheap milsurp and repo combloc militara?

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>the "train new shooters on low-recoiling guns" meme

His prices on his milsurp rifles are a bit high especially when you add shipping and transfer, but his surplus pistols like the makarovs, star bms, czs etc are pretty good and well priced

I feel like you have a t-shirt, bumper sticker, or a Facebook post that reads, "I carry a 45 because they don't make a 46". Boomers gonna boom I guess. Oh well. I lead them to water, cant force them to drink.

How much have you shot though?

>or

He's got all three bro.

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Perhaps a coffee mug as well lol

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I only have a snickers and a jungle carbine ;(

How long do you think it will be before Mosins and SKSes are $1000+?

I don't think that will happen. There's too many of them in the country.

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online im guessing for a new recoil spring? Wheres the best place for online M1 Carbine parts?

>How long do you think it will be before Mosins and SKSes are $1000+?
More than a few Mosins are $1000+ already.

Inland or Fulton Armory, I'd wager. The variety of parts FA sells is pretty big, so you could find what you need there.

Or try wolff.

Any dudes here own a Type 14 Nambu? I'm about to pick mine up later this afternoon, I know they're known that they're not very reliable, but I won't be doing much shooting with it anyway.

3 years for SKS, 10 or so for Mosins.

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Why do you always post screencaps of stupidly rare collector grade Mosins when the context is generally basic bitch 91/30s?

For (you)s and to illustrate that there are collectible Mosins out there. Most people in here know that (or so I hope) but the general population is unaware.

Now is the time to buy rare or uncommon Mosin variants, because they're just another garbage rod to most people.

I'm talking to a guy whose offering a WW1 M1911 for about $1500, all the parts look original (HP barrel stamping, matching finish, frame, slide, etc.) and the bore is pretty good. The finish is about 96%. I have pics but they're on my phone and I'm not really proficient with how to import them. Am I being duped or is the seller just unaware?

Quite a bit, Mostly skeet shooting with my grandfather but hes got a few rifles that we've shot a lot over the years.

Russian sks's are $700 a rising for nice ones, mosins are selling for $350, classic is auctioning mosins and they are bringing $1000+

>2020 SKS's will be $1000
>2024 mosins will be $1000

Yeah, I could see russian SKS hitting 1k. Chinkshit and yugo maybe 6-700 max. I doubt basic 91/30s will go over 500 though.

i got some cheap 20" 7.92x57 fluted mg barrels cheap but i dont know what caliber to build them, what is common 8mm calibers? i was thinking 8mm rem mag or buying some old mauser 98 with bad barrel and changing it. i hope you can undersetand because i have been drinking vodka

pic related, but not my pic

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7.62x25 is underused. great for innawoods or onnafarm

Barring new shipments of surp, prices will rise until the end of time.

This isn't the end of history, francis. Eventually the world will change again. We may have a temporary time of absurd prices, but it won't last forever.

The number of yugo mausers is going to drop slightly every day, whereas the number of people who want them is going to increase forever, or until they're regulated into the ground. That's not recipe for stagnating prices.

The only way for prices to drop is increasing supply or decreasing demand, and I don't see either of those happening.

what can I rebarrel an m48 to? All these 10-15 year old forum posts from google searches go right off topic and never answer the question.
Also I can't afford paying 21 bucks for a 15 box of 8mm every time I want to shoot so I need a cheaper round

Unless you plan on living to be 150 or so, you will never see more surplus firearms imported like they were 50 or even 20 years ago.

Get into reloading

>but it won't last forever.
^ This ^. In another few million years we'll come back around and have new surp.

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can you people stop telling me to get into reloading and just answer the damn question for once?

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That's entirely possible. However, if studying history shows one thing, it's that circumstances can change very unexpectedly and quickly sometimes. Our current state of affairs could disappear almost overnight with the right combination of events.
People in my family usually live to 100 or thereabouts anyway.
A reloading setup will cost less than rebarreling it most likely, and will open up a shitton of options.

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Rebarreling it will be pretty pricey, and the most logical option would be .308. People keep telling you to reload because that's the best solution to your problem.

How about you try reloading?
>However, if studying history shows one thing, it's that circumstances can change very unexpectedly and quickly sometimes.
I wouldn't bet on it.

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Economic crash, civil war. Plenty of options for surp in the future.

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>I wouldn't bet on it.
You're probably right. But would Al-Musta'sim bet on being rolled into a rug and trampled, if you asked him in 1257? Would an Englishman in 1770 bet on an independent America? In 1490 would an Aztec or Mayan bet on being conquered by a few pale hairy guys? The civil war was going to be over in a month in 1861, and the horseless carriage was just a fad in 1910.

To be fair, the Civil War COULD have been over in a month if the Confederate's had gone straight for Washington D.C. after Bull Run.

>Plenty of options for surp in the future.
The distant, dying future.

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(You)

Is there any piece of surp that despite its popularity or interesting history, you could never quite warm up to and don't really have an interest in owning?
>inb4 Mosin