Military Rifles

[Calman]

Anyone into old military rifles?
I seem to have a thing about buying all types of military rifles.
I have too many to even list. About 3yr ago started collecting military handguns. One handgun that i'm most amazed with is a CZ52 russian 7.62by25 auto fed. It will fire a fmj which is a whopping 1550fps. Now also has a hollowpoint available. I usally when buying the rifles will by 2 and sporterize one.
Some of them makes for a good looking rifle when sporterized.
The fun part is the cheap ammo available for them and makes for some great target shooting.I have bought several thats still in cosmoline(spl) and wrapped in wax paper and never been fired.

WARNING if you do buy one it needs to be checked out by someone that knows guns before you attempt to fire it.

Cal

 

[dun]

Back in the late 50s and early 60s I sporterized a truck load of Mausers. When I finally quit doing it, they decent ones got to pricey, I started just buying barreled actions. Still have the bolt handle forging blocks and the jig for drilling and tapping.
This is a 220 Swift built on a small ring Mexicann Mauser action

 

[shorty]

I have a 30-40 Krag which has the smoothest action I ever saw on rifle , if you hold it with the barrel up slightly and push the bolt handle up with your finger underneath it when it gets up all the way the bolt just slide open. I also like the cellar door to put the bullets in. It was drilled and tapped for a scope and it shoots good.

 

[MikeC]

Nice looking rifle dun. But I noticed that trigger sure is setting towards the back of the trigger guard.

Is that because of the way the stock is built? Did ya'll make the stock, or was it a factory inlet? Aftermarket trigger guard?

 

[dun]

Nice looking rifle dun. But I noticed that trigger sure is setting towards the back of the trigger guard.

Is that because of the way the stock is built? Did ya'll make the stock, or was it a factory inlet? Aftermarket trigger guard?

Original military trigger guard just reshaped. The Timneys sit straighter in the action the the old military ones do.
Had a friend of mine shape the blank. Since the barrle is so big in diameter (basicly a blank with the machine marks polished off) the forend had to be wider or the wood alonf the barrel would have been paper thin.
Other then the scope bases and trigger the only non-origianl metal are the action screws. And of course the barrel

 

[3waycross]

Back in the late 50s and early 60s I sporterized a truck load of Mausers. When I finally quit doing it, they decent ones got to pricey, I started just buying barreled actions. Still have the bolt handle forging blocks and the jig for drilling and tapping.
This is a 220 Swift built on a small ring Mexicann Mauser action

Nice job! Did you ever do anything with the Sweedish Mausers. I have one that I had sporterized a couple years ago. It's loaned to my buddy for his 13yr old as a starter rifle. He has shot two bucks and a doe in 2 yrs with it.

It seems like everybody wants to start kids out with a .243, which is fine but I like the 6.5 Sweede better, it kicks a lot less and kills better.

 

[dun]

Did you ever do anything with the Sweedish Mausers.

They were included in the truck load of mausers. Got one now that I'm sort of messing around with but nothing serious. The serious one now is a 6.35X57R on an old Martini action.

 

[Constankane]

The M16 is the best rifle, no doubt. The AK47 is nowhere near the top spot and I can prove it. The M16 is lighter than the AK47, so you can carry more ammunition. The M16 has a higher rate of fire (950 rpm) than the AK47(600 rpm), so you can get more lead down range and you have a better chance of getting the enemy. The M16 has much higher range, as you are able to hit a point/bullseye target at 1804 feet (550 m), while an AK47 cannot hit an area target at 330 feet (100 m). This was proven in the Youtube video called " AK47 vs M16 Part 1". Also the M16 is has very low recoil, while the AK47 kicks like a mule. The only advantages the AK47 has are lesser jamming and power.

 

[js1234]

The M16 is the best rifle, no doubt. The AK47 is nowhere near the top spot and I can prove it. The M16 is lighter than the AK47, so you can carry more ammunition. The M16 has a higher rate of fire (950 rpm) than the AK47(600 rpm), so you can get more lead down range and you have a better chance of getting the enemy. The M16 has much higher range, as you are able to hit a point/bullseye target at 1804 feet (550 m), while an AK47 cannot hit an area target at 330 feet (100 m). This was proven in the Youtube video called " AK47 vs M16 Part 1". Also the M16 is has very low recoil, while the AK47 kicks like a mule. The only advantages the AK47 has are lesser jamming and power.

if you are "only" going to have two advantages as a tactical rifle, i would say not breaking as often and hitting the bad guy harder would be two pretty good advantages to have.

 

[rla442]

My favorite military (US and foreign) rifle are the old blackpowder cartridge rifles all of which I reload and shoot regularly. The Burnside Carbine, Dutch Beaumont, Austrian Werndl, and a couple Remington rolling blocks in 50-70 and 43 Spanish. A couple of these rifle mentioned, I've taken a couple whitetail deer with too.

Krags, 1917 Enfields and '03 Springfields, I've got a few and these are all straight up awesome shooters.

My favorite plinking rifle is a .310 Cadet Martini, Australian military training rifle. Super accurate, not much noise and no recoil. Does a fine job on small game and groundhogs.

 

[dun]

My favorite military (US and foreign) rifle are the old blackpowder cartridge rifles all of which I reload and shoot regularly. The Burnside Carbine, Dutch Beaumont, Austrian Werndl, and a couple Remington rolling blocks in 50-70 and 43 Spanish. A couple of these rifle mentioned, I've taken a couple whitetail deer with too.

Krags, 1917 Enfields and '03 Springfields, I've got a few and these are all straight up awesome shooters.

My favorite plinking rifle is a .310 Cadet Martini, Australian military training rifle. Super accurate, not much noise and no recoil. Does a fine job on small game and groundhogs.

Don;t hear mucxh aboput Martinis. I have a number of them. A Cadet that was rebarreld to 218 Bee, Several .22 target Rifles and a Martini/Enfield I rebarreled to 6.35X57R

 

[rla442]

My favorite military (US and foreign) rifle are the old blackpowder cartridge rifles all of which I reload and shoot regularly. The Burnside Carbine, Dutch Beaumont, Austrian Werndl, and a couple Remington rolling blocks in 50-70 and 43 Spanish. A couple of these rifle mentioned, I've taken a couple whitetail deer with too.

Krags, 1917 Enfields and '03 Springfields, I've got a few and these are all straight up awesome shooters.

My favorite plinking rifle is a .310 Cadet Martini, Australian military training rifle. Super accurate, not much noise and no recoil. Does a fine job on small game and groundhogs.

Don;t hear mucxh aboput Martinis. I have a number of them. A Cadet that was rebarreld to 218 Bee, Several .22 target Rifles and a Martini/Enfield I rebarreled to 6.35X57R

Martini's are almost a thing of the past, probably soon to be forgotten like the other single shot rifles of the past. I wonder if there will ever be a reproduction like they did with the Remington Rolling block or the Winchester High/Low Walls?

 

[dun]

Martini's are almost a thing of the past, probably soon to be forgotten like the other single shot rifles of the past. I wonder if there will ever be a reproduction like they did with the Remington Rolling block or the Winchester High/Low Walls?

There are probably a ton of them floating around but you rarely see them for sale. I wouldn';t part with any of mine unless the price was really high. Back around 200 or a little before, england passed another one of their rediculaous gun laws. The US was flooded with Martini International 22 target rifles. I kept one but I must have sold a couple of dozen to people that wanted a good accurate relatively inexpensive target rifle. Something I found intersting about the chambers in them. They shoot remington vipers better then any of the target/match 22s. Better even then the Eley match stuff. I never tried it but it may shoot the other remington stuff that has that same bullet shape as the viper.

 

[dun]

gunbroker.com has 21 Martinis listed, auctionarms.com has zero