OK, all this talk of buying a cheap surplus rifle and cleaning it up to a shooter/collector piece has sparked some interest. My son's friend in PA bought a Garand a couple of years ago and has a lot of fun shooting it. I shot it last year through iron sights at 200 yards but I really had no idea what i was shooting at. I think my old eyes would need a scope for those distances? So it leaves me with a couple of questions? Which surplus rifle is best to start with and how does one go about cleaning all the cosmoline out of the rifle and stock to get started?

I found this pdf on cosmoline removal

 

http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting/co ... moline.pdf

I found this pdf on cosmoline removal

 

http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting/co ... moline.pdf

 

Awesome find!

check out a PU nagant sniper. There are reproductions on the market for around $350.00 Or if you are like me and like to tinker you can get a mosin, and put the mount and scope on yourself. Mine have great accuracy, but the scope is only a 3.5x

Thanks guys! I am the tinkering type of guy. I love to buy used and fix things up. Even the three new guns I bought (plus my son's two) were "tweaked" by me with trigger jobs and springs.

Great article on cosmoline removal, I am stoked!

We should move this thread and others into the Military Surplus category.

 

I'll bet this will grow with the great interest (including myself) in obtaining, cleaning and firing these treasures.

cheap would start with a mosin

and then to mausers

on to an sks

then to an m-1 garande.

were not allowed a carbine and that would be an awsome one to have..

Is a Garand a carbine? And it is not NJ legal? Damn, why didn't I move to PA when I had the chance.

He is talking about an M1 Carbine. The Garand is fine.

I've got a Mauser and man is that a blast! Literally! It's like owning a piece of history. If that rifle could talk, what would it say.

cheap would start with a mosin

and then to mausers

on to an sks

then to an m-1 garande.

were not allowed a carbine and that would be an awsome one to have..

 

Great advise Tony. That's how I would start.

I've got a Mauser and man is that a blast! Literally! It's like owning a piece of history. If that rifle could talk, what would it say.

 

Vorbereiten!

Zielen!

Schu

 

Vorbereiten!

Zielen!

Schu