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damn I miss the days of $30 spam cans.

I had the same experience when I went. I too will not return.....

The chinese are a step up from the yugo's. The chinese have chrome lined bores and Yugo's dont, so Chinese tend to have better bore condition.

Furniture and firearms depot in Mt bethel has a couple of them on the shelf. One is even carved up with some trench art. Look him up for his number, and I think they were $450~

I agree but also realize the gun culture has fundamentally changed. Think of this, on this forum..... How many gun owners actually hunt any more, how many gun owners realize that a firearm is a tool. The gun culture has evolved from the days of using a gun to put meat on the table, or have an afternoon out with the guys shooting skeet. Now the gun culture has morphed into a culture of obsessing about home defense, CCW, and the boogey man in the dark. When you go to the range you see people running around shooting steel targets and are happy when the hit the target and hear a "ping." What ever happened to shooting for accuracy, not just to hit your targets. The gun culture has evolved immensely, to the point that it is almost unrecognizable from what it was say maybe 20 years ago. There are many aspects of the "modern" gun culture which is actually hurting us. Tactitards for example. What ever happened to just going to the range to have fun, is there a need to dress like a call of duty reject to go to the range. People do not understand that firearms owners are under a microscope today, we must make the outsiders that have never shot or been around firearms realize that we are normal people. Do we really want to fit into a stereotypical image, especially when we are all being scrutinized? So yes, as a gun owner I see that the gun culture has changed immensely, but I feel it isn’t for the better.

latest report is the store is pretty much sold out again.

Well they are limiting one per customer as per the North Store thread...... so that is a great thing in my book because it deters those who purchase with the intent of resale. Seems lately people forget the CMP charter states "CMP rifles are simply not intended for resale and those in the business (or practice) of doing it should be prevented and have their purchase abilities permanently revoked"

You need to meet the requirements reguardless

Corking works great, and keep an eye at aim, they sometimes have the Russian target ammo in stock. It is pricey but well worth it.

It is a Austrian Police Enfield.... how sweet is that.

I picked this up about a week ago for $50, she was horribly sporterized but fortunately the metal wasn't touched. Bubba just decided to modify the wood quite a bit. So I headed down to Sarco and picked up all that I needed but the forend to bring her back to her former glory. The bore is 100% MINT which is a plus, it actually reads a 2 on my CMP .30 cal Muzzle gauge. I still need to track down the screws for the nose cap and a proper sling for it and do a little more staining to get all the wood to match better. Sometimes it pays being a gun nut so you can recognize a diamond in the rough. So here she is.... The sights are still adjustable..... And the best for last..........................drum roll please...................................

After a bit of horse trading with a friend out in California I managed to get an original set of EAW Swing Mounts for it and tracked down a Zrak Scope. So here she is, restored back to her former glory....... Purdy aint it!

I was taught by a friend that is a gunsmith and he said after cleaning and oiling put a rag on the ground and store the gun upside down for 3 days prior to putting in the safe. Although you dont put much oil on you will be amazed when you see what ends up on the rag. After cleaning if you store muzzle up, any excess oil on the gun drips down the reveiver and migrates toward the tang. Over time this oil will impregnate the wood around the tang and bedding and cause what is commonly called "oil rot." Walk around a gunshow and look at the old used guns and you will easily identify it, it looks like the wood around the receiver is darker than the rest of the stock. That is the oil that soaked into the wood. I set them muzzle down for a few days before putting them in the safe, it might be a little overboard but who cares, it doesn't hurt anything.

old school all the way. Any product that claims to do it all, does it all but not the best. Clean a gun perfect with CLP so you are getting clean patches out. Then run some sweets 7.62 through it and see how clean you thought it was. Firearms are investment and sit and clean them the proper way with proper solvents witha ROD and enjoy the down time. There are different cleaners for different types of fouling. I like Sweets 7.62 for copper, Hoppes for general cleaning, and a followup with Ballistol when I am done.

straight wall pistol doesn't need lube, but some bottleneck pistol does. My 30 Mauser requires lube since it is a bottleneck. Even with carbide dies it will stick without lube. It comes down to case profile.

It all comes down to what you are reloading. All bottleneck cases get lubed prior to resize. Rifle always gets lubed. Crimping comes down to personal preference and what you are shooting. If it is a semi auto it gets crimped 100% of the time in my book. On bolt action rifles it all depends what i am loading for and some rifles like heavy crimp while others dont like crimp.

Hungarian is my favorite, Yugo second favorite, Bulgarian third, Polish 4th and of course handloads are best. A few months ago Lapua x54 brass was up at a distributor for $30 per hundred. If there is any more that pops up snatch it up if you can.

I would pay maybe 325-350ish for one. Depending how spendy it is check out gunsnammo.com for the best mosins

and to think i didn't even get to the "experimental" Enfield bayonet that I got for $60 or the $100 M3 Fighting knife........ or some of the other gems from yesterday. It was a good day indeed.

I went to a local auction yesterday and picked this bad boy up. It is a 1903 Springfield made in 1918. Barrel is MINT and gauges excellent. Still in cosmo. Not bad for $525. and of course when 16" bayonets were going for the price of a regular bayonet, one had to come home with me

I went to an auction in PA yesterday and picked up a 1903, insta check took 11 minutes from the time she started until she hung up. I cant believe how insane NJ is right now when other states roll right on through.

Pistol is a last ditch firearm, used to fight your way to your rifle. Rifle all the way!

Garand..... let freedom PING!

check this out too, easy to do and helps http://youtu.be/tlIoxbtdPXY Also make sure the trigger guard lugs are nice and round and check the lockup of the stock. It should take some force to close the trigger guard on a assembled rifle

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