Recommend me a good milsurp bolt action rifle for around $500

Lee Enfield mk.4 but raped to shoot 308. And painted bright red.

>>33160441
For $500 you can get quite s few options.

>k31
>m96
>m39

Or almost any non German Mauser, meaning Czech, Yugoslavian, Turkish, polish, or Russian capture.

You can also get an m1903a3 or m1917 if you shop around a bit

>>33160441
>Recommend me a good milsurp bolt action rifle for around $500


You can get a HOWA for that money and you'd end up with an actually good rifle.

>>33160441
you can get pretty much any ww2 bolt rifle with 500 as long as your okay with it not being pristine, collectors grade and all matching. pick a country you like and buy their gun.

>>33161020
2nd this. Don't buy milsurp if you aren't a collector.

>>33160816
Why not just get an ishapore at that point? Or pony up the cash and just shoot .303

>>33161050
3rd on this. There's no worse feeling than fucking up a piece of history

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Get a k31 so you can revel in the glory that is 7.5x55 swiss

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>>33161020
>>33161050
>>33161374

im with you guys in that its a market for collectors.

what is the consensus on purchasing a well-done sporterized piece?

I passed on a carcano a while ago at a gun show, don't own any sporerized stuff, and i wanted to keep it that way. but this one was obviously done by a skilled hand and i'm kind of kicking myself over it, because I know i'll never find it again.

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>>33161556
>what is the consensus on purchasing a well-done sporterized piece?

What matters then is how well it works as a sporting rifle. Some guy who chops only the forestock off a Mosin M91 but leaves the barrel 30" long probably wasn't a very good gun owner.

picked up a k31 from my LGS yesterday, god it is such a honey of a gun paid around $500 (but in a different currency) very nice gun to shoot and great to just rack the bolts back and forward whilst marveling at how very swiss it all is

>>33161050
4thing this, unless the bore is pristine it's not going to be a very good shooter and most milsurps are chambered for a proprietary caliber.

You won't find 8x56r in stores, i haven't 7.7 jap in stores in years.
Only recently did i find 7.62x54r. 8mm mauser seems available.
The most common would be 30-06.

>>33163107
Take off the buttplate.
See if the guy left you a neat gift.

I have a dilemma.
I'm looking at getting either a m44 Mosin Carbine or a SMLE mk 3.
What would you recommend?

>>33163876
m44 cause fireballs

>>33163876
Not a SMLE...
https://youtu.be/hl51NVkt6Sg

If you can find a German Mauser, good luck, but a Czech or Yugo Mauser will do.. Or a Spanish F8

Fuck Mosin garbage, that's for poor fucks.

>>33164786
>Recommends cheap Mausers
>Says Mosins are for the poor
Hmmmm.

Where are you people still finding k31s for 500?

>>33163876
7.62x54R is more available than .303, so I'd recommend the M44.

>>33161556
Some of the really old rifles, tastefully sportorized, have a certain appeal IMO. There is something endearing about them