Lets see those firearms !

[Tero T]

Thanks Claus! good site! Regards Tero T Toronto Canada

[Airforce1]

1943 Izhvesk M38


1941 Izhvesk M91/30


Savage Enfield #4 mk1*


Yugo M59/66 SKS


1943 Izhvesk M91/30 Ex-Sniper Being restored, Still needs bolt

[Demontrooper]

I bought an old mosin for $75 at my local gunshop. It dates from 1899, with a hexagonal receiver, and it included a
curved sniper bolt (the only reason I bought the junker.) I will get pics up some day.....

Perhaps you can just bend a bolt yourself by heating it with a blow torch? (unfortunately the bolts are like 60% of
the cost of the gun).

On gunbroker.com there are sniper bolt kits for mosins.

And you have some nice, clean guns!

[DragunovSVD]

1899! wow, that's like... old! impressively so!

[clauss]

Hi all!

Here´s my US-Carbine and my danish M/89 Krag.

Best regards
Claus

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

Here is my latest acquisition, a C&R MP-40, BNZ 41, with original trigger style bolt handle (very rare these days). The leather safety strap use to hold the bolt is a reproduction I made using the instructions in the Merkblatt, für die Behandlung der Maschinenpistole zum Berhindern Hemmungen, Beilage zum H.-V.-Bl. 1941 Teil C NR.985. Keep posting pics, guys!

[Airforce1]

wow, another person from Minnesota...cool!!

[mikerock]

Not all WW2 related, and none of them German, unless you count the Germans that the SVT has shot at...

[Demontrooper]

That Karl Gustav is really interesting (and clean!). I have never looked into them, so I can honestly say that it is the first one I have ever really seen. That sporterized Enfield does not look that bad at all actually. If you really want to put it back into its original configuration. then PM me and I may be able to find you an Enfield stock at the next gun show.

That VZ52 is pretty cool too! Have you gone shooting it yet?

Nice collection! All pretty rare huh?

[mikerock]

Yeah that Ljungman is in superb shape. It gets a bit finnicky about cycling after it gets hot, but I think I just need to clean out the gas tube. It's the best shooter I have and the recoil on it is surprisingly light, especially for a full-power rifle cartridge. I'm picking up another one on Saturday for a parts rifle. I call it "The Hand Mangler" although it hasn't claimed any victories ion my hand yet...

I am thinking about getting an original stock for the Enfield, but I don't know if the barrel has been cut or anything like that. It was FTR's in 1953. I might just leave it and pick up an original shape rifle. If you have any ideas about what I need to check to put a new stock on it, please let me know!

That's not a VZ-52, though, it's a VZ-52/57! It shoots exceptionally well for something chambered in 7.62x39. The gas system is a strange one though. And I need to find some stripper clips for it, as it doesn't take AK/SKS strippers. It's also in excellent shape.

The SVT-40 is a cranky old commie. That gas valve gives me a lot of problems. The shellac is flaking off (you can see it in the picture) so I am going to refinish it starting next week. I have heard that the original colour of the shellac was lighter, which I think would look nice.

Thanks for the compliments. I hope to keep adding to my collection of oddball antiquated battle rifles!

[Rogerbutthead]

You might want to check with these guys before you shellac your SVT.

http://www.gunboards.com/forums/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=1

If it is original shellac that you plan on redoing - you may be losing some of the value of your rifle. If it already has been redone, then Emily Litella.

[mikerock]

Well the shellac is coming off anyways, so I do it now or it won't have any on it at some point and someone (me) will have to refinish it.

It's also a Canadian SVT, which aren't as rare as they are in the States. We got a bunch in from Ukraine 2 years ago (where mine came from). They're almost all factory refurbs with electro-pencil force matching. Mine has been force matched to the stock's serial YN607. SVTs up here are about $500-600 or so. The rare part I have is an original bayonet, which goes for around $200.

[ante radnić-cro]

my collection: M-56(yugo MP-40)and M-49(yugo- PPŠ), CZ M-70(AK-47),PPŠ,and for couple days:MG-34 and italian M-1891(two pices,long and short version). i`ll send some pictures soon

[BLAKSAUSSA]

here is my stg-44

[mikerock]

That VZ52 is pretty cool too! Have you gone shooting it yet?

I've now had a chance to take it out ot the range and the bush. I can get 2" groups at 50m and I can hit paper plate sized targets at 200m with it, and I am not that great of a shot. It shoots about 4" right at 50m, but that is because of the front sight blade being bent. It also likes to eject unfired rounds but I suspect that has more to do with the rifle having a VZ-52 magazine for the 7.5x45 round and not a proper Vz-52/57 magazine for the 7.62x39 round. The front sight blade is bent and I need to get a new one of those as well, which I hope will fix the tendency to shoot right.

I have also picked up a new pistol. It's a matching Herstal produced Hi-Power that is WaA marked: