I will get some pics tonight.

Browning 30-06. Not my only gun but the only one i have pics of.

Don't feel like taking pics now, but I'll list

                             Sporting firearms:

TC Hawken .50

Remington 870 express youth model. 20ga, rifled barrel, open sights

Remington M597 .22LR, blue w/hardwood stock

Winchester Model 72A bolt action .22

                           Military Surplus:

Finnish M-39 Mosin Nagant 7.62x53mm, 1898 Tula receiver 1942 Valmet Barrel, wartime stock. Accurate SOB, packs a punch on either end. Excellent condition.

Swedish M-38 Mauser Calvalry Model 6.5X55mm, 1942 Husquvarna. Not as accurate as the Finn or Garand, but more user-friendly than the Finn

M-1 Garand 1943(44?) receiver, vietnam era refurb, rearsenaled like-new condition, sub MOA with good commercial stuff, 1.5-2MOA with greek surplus Had to fiddle with the ejector to get it to feed right but after solving that problem, this is my favorite rifle, pretty much ever. I may even spoil it with a nice new M1907 leather sling and ditch the canvas one.

Russian SKS-45 late manufacture. Laminated stock, bore and metal perfect, few stock dings. Pretty for an ugly Russian rifle. I can't praise this thing enough. Sufficiently accurate, never has jammed or had any type of malfunction unlike pretty much everything else I've owned.

I've also been trying to put together a Yugo AK, but ran out of cash before I bought the receiver. Hopefully I'll get it together over this winter. AR build planned for next winter.

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Here's a couple, I will try to get the rest up tommorrow.

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.44 mag, and .38 special. I have a .357 with the same blue'd with rosewood grips theme.

too lazy to post pic, so here's the specs

Remington 1100 auto loading 12 ga.

For after all what's man in nature? A central point in between nothing & all, infinitely far from understanding either.

No pics, but:

Remington 870 Express 12 Gauge

Remington 710 30-06

Remington 22lr bolt action target rifle (can't remember model #)

Remington 597 LSS 22lr

Smith and Wesson 22lr pistol

Winchester Auto 12 gauge (model #?)

Classic Winchester Model 37 Steelbilt 16 Gauge

7.62x39 sks with dragunov stock and bsa 40mm dot sight

very old pieced together 410

Classic Remington Model 24 22lr, in the process of getting it restored

kuhndog599 wrote: I'm looking at the mosin nagant m44, the swiss k31, and the 24/47 mauser. if you could give me information (i've read about them but cant really find any info on reliability and what people prefer) i would really appreciate it. thanks.

The M44 kicks like a mule and belches out a huge muzzle flash(which can be fun). It's loud and has a difficult safety. However it's built to club nazis all day long so good luck breaking it. Parts are dirt cheap anyways. It uses a rimmed round with an interrupter so it doesn't theoretically matter how you stack the rims, it won't screw with the feeding. Your rifle should not have the old style one-peice interrupter(unless it's an old reworked receiver) so I wouldn't expect problems with feeding. My 1898 one has the one peice and is occasionally finicky. The m44 has a permanantly mounted bayo and is zeroed with it extended, so point of impact may be off. Get an M38 or a 91/59 if you want a shorty mosin. Mosins have a short bolt handle and are usually hard to cycle, especially with laqured steel ammo. Brush your chamber with a good bronze brush and some mineral spirits to get any dried cosmoline out and you shouldn't have many problems.

Don't know what cosmo is? It's awful smelly thick grease pretty much every milsurp is coated in. Heat, paint thinner, gasoline, WD-40 and elbow grease work well to get it out. You can put metal parts in the oven on low and cook a lot of it out and wipe it.

The 24/47 mauser is pretty much like any other large ring mauser. Simple, reliable, easy to work the action. The mauser and mosin are a crapshoot as for accuracy when compared to each other. They are essentially comparable, but the mauser is the most user-friendly between the two. The K-31 should be able to outshoot either.

Also consider an Enfield of some kind. Stay away from Ishapore rifles and the .308 caliber ones. Anything made in india as a rule, sucks. Enfields have a slicker action than the mausers, and depending on the Mark have interesting features. The really late ones had the trigger assembly attached to the stock, so depending on the weather, you trigger pull will differ. They can also be really accurate if you get a tight one, but again, a crap shoot.

I'll try to rank them if I can in different categories.

Accuracy: K31, enfield, Mosin, Mauser assuming the best from each. Enfields usually vary a bit more than the others.

User friendly action: K31, Enfield, Mauser, Mosin the Mosin is the only one I would consider to have "bad" ergonomics.

Durability: Mosin, Enfield, Mauser, K31. The mauser and enfield are debatable, the enfiled will run with more crap in it, but has more fragile parts. You can use a mosin for a tent pole.

Ask the canuks about the enfield, they'd have more experiance. Depending on you intentions and price range, there's a lot out there for military rifles.