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Section 9: Military Weapons
Subject: MAS 36 Msg# 1060435

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TJ Parmele

Joined 6/1/2005

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Mark Freburg (Read) Forum Manager

Joined 4/3/2000

It IS great to specialize, and further, we all need to find our niche! Bow Down In the old days I wanted every variant of everything. Well THAT got to be a bit much!

Hehe. I was the same way. I used to buy milsurp based on perceived felt recoil and what surplus ammo gave the biggest flash.
Thumpers include 1895 Austrian Steyr with 8X56R Nazi Surplus ammo made in 1938 the prime source of recoil. After discovering what burnt, powdered 70 plus year old sweat socks smelled like (that was some FUNKY smelling ammo) I sold it.
Enfield No. 5MK 1 Jungle Carbine. Fairly stout due to the hardened rubber "butt plate" over the years. Sold that.
Mosin M44 Romanian. First Milsurp i ever bought. Yes, I still have it. BigGrin Albanian surplus 7.62X54R gives the most muzzle blast.

Shooting and feeding all these beasts eventually drove me to the point of selling most of them off. I still have some Mosins, including a Finnish M39, but it's mostly down to 2 M44s (Romanian and a CHERRRY Polish model) and a PU 91/30 sniper rifle (repro).

Today I have, mostly samples of one, with two Finnish Mosins, three Swede Mausers (one actually made BY Mauser) and a neat if excessive collection of .303 Britsh rifles, whch all tie together: Pattern 14, Canadian No.4, US No. 4, commercially shortened British No.4. And then too, my US M1917 Enfield is the offshoot of the Pattern 14. Fun stuff. I probably need (Wink) a milspec British No.4. Everything else is a sample of one. Well, two Argentine Mausers but one is a 91, the other a 98-pattern 1909....

That's rather impressive! I have 4 Swiss Schmidt Rubin rifles, only missing maybe 3 variants: 1893, 1896/11, and the K31 Sniper (if I ever find that one, I'll be paying a pretty penny for it).
I am probably going to look at Swiss Handguns soon (yeah, should be fun... ) although they don't really get the blood flowing. The 1892 Revolver has my interest as does the SIG P210. I've owned a P220... and P225 so not really enthused about getting those again. We'll see.
I did run into a fairly worn out Spanish Mauser this weekend. $150. It looked pretty well used up. Now, I like character, but I want enough life left in the rifle to not feel... endangered when I chamber a round. This one gave me that feeling, so I passed on it.
I DO want a 7MM Mauser, as we've talked about. I think the round is one of the best all time small arm rounds. Especially when an enemy takes a look at the small arms used in a relatively short war and goes... "you know, this beats the snot out of everything we've got". "Hey... let's copy it." Short-hand and conjecture taken on my part I know, but that's the general sense I got out of how the US viewed the 1893 -1895 Spanish Mausers.

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It IS great to specialize, and further, we all need to find our niche! Bow Down

In the old days I wanted every variant of everything. Well THAT got to be a bit much!

Today I have, mostly samples of one, with two Finnish Mosins, three Swede Mausers (one actually made BY Mauser) and a neat if excessive collection of .303 Britsh rifles, whch all tie together: Pattern 14, Canadian No.4, US No. 4, commercially shortened British No.4. And then too, my US M1917 Enfield is the offshoot of the Pattern 14. Fun stuff. I probably need ( Wink ) a milspec British No.4. Everything else is a sample of one. Well, two Argentine Mausers but one is a 91, the other a 98-pattern 1909....

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