What's UR 1st Milsurp?

[msorwan1975]

First I ever bought, and still have BTW, is a Swede 96. All matching, mint rifle. Paid well under $100 for it in 1987-88. With Speer 140 gr SP and 4895 shoots well under 1" for 3 shots.
When I do my part, LOL!

[Hawk]

1943 SA M1 Garand.

Same color and finish as this one.

[telopyros]

mosin nagant 1943

[REBELoffaLEASH]

1938 Turkish Mauser was my first. I now own 3 Mausers.

[Bang]

Two SMLEs. Both became sporterized. Oh well...that's what makes the survivors worth more.

Very accurate rifle. Used to woodchuck with one of 'em. Not overkill. Was all I had at the time.

First pure milsurp...1903-a3

ooops...no...first was a Japanese Arisaka, a bring-back shortly after WWII when I was a kid. Like a dumb kid I later(12), believing it was junk and ammo unavailable and I threw it into a creek behind my house. Damnit, now I won't sleep tonight...

[Berks_Iraq_Vet]

1944 SA M1 Garand.

[shrewd]

also a '43 mosin

i thought i'd shoot the heck out of it, but that was over 2 years ago and i still have the spam can i bought with it, roughly half full


i picked up an m1 from the cmp a year or so later, and i've fired 4 or 5 tins of hxp through it since. i love that rifle.

[lemko]

Mosin-Nagant 1939.

[scruff]

1943 Springfield M1Garand. I had a great time picking it out at the CMP store. That was a few days before New town, and the store has been pretty much bare ever since. I wonder if they'll ever fill up the racks again?

[pennlineman]

My first was a sporterized SMLE. My first original was a 96 Swedish Mauser. I still have it, the best shooting surplus rifle I've ever owned.