Recent Acquisition.

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>>33871321
...Is that a sporterized Krag?

>>33871321
Thinking of restoring her anon?

>>33871321
What a fucking piece of shit "gun"
You did horribly
And why the fuck do you run here to post your garbage blog entry?
1/10

>>33871343
That it is
>>33871350
Maybe. I don't really have the money for it.
>>33871375
That's nice anon. Sorry you feel that way. About this board for sharing weapons. You colossal faggot.

>>33871396
Whatever kid. Oh I'm sorry did I fucking trigger you? Were you fucking triggered you little cry baby? Fuck off. Honestly go fuck yourself to the highest fucking caliber you fucking asshole. So sick of little fucking bitches like you who fucking have a fucking opinion like you're fucking sitting over there like, oh I'm some fucking problem to you because I'm not even fucking saying a fucking word to you. Fuck off. Call it what you fucking asshole? Hormonal? Kid you're a fucking bullshitter. You're a fucking bullshitter. Go fuck yourself. You ain't fucking nothing. You ain't fucking anyone. You ain't got a fucking clue in your fucking head who I am or what I'm fucking about. That I'm fucking calling these fucking kids tryhards, has your fucking panties in a bunch for what? For what? For fucking what kid? Honestly I'm fucking sick of kids like you. Literally go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself and everything that you fucking stand for because I'm gonna tell you right now, you don't stand for shit kid. You don't stand for fucking shit. Please. Yeah like anybody fucking cares kid go find a fucking friend to talk to, right? Because you can't fucking talk to me, you can't fucking treat me like a fucking person. You ain't fucking real kid. You ain't fucking real. You ain't got a fucking real fucking bone in your fucking body kid. So go fucking all chat, and make some fucking friends. Alright? You can make some fucking friends because "Oh, this guy's hormonal," pffft "Uh I'm gonna mute him," pffft fuck off. You're literally a fucking cancer on this fucking world kid. Never fucking forget it.

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>>33871404
That's not even a good pasta
Try harder

>>33871452

>doesnt actually know what a trip is

first day, huh? don't worry youll stop standing out eventually

>>33871404
>bait like this hasn't been seen since ... always.
2/10 anon. Please try harder

>>33871321
>traded a Yugo SKS for it
Oh holy fuck.

Tell me that you didn't.
If they did this to a Krag JMB knows what sort of unholy shit they'll do to an SKS.

Seriously.
GET. IT. BACK.

>>33871452
>this is a WEAPONS board
>gets this triggered over some one posting weapons

>>33871321
Krags are great guns, and once yours is restored, it'll be both a great conversation piece and worth a lot more than the trade-in value of that SKS.

>>33871476
I think an SKS is a little more expendable than a Krag

>>33871461
>>33871463
>>33871484
>Not contributions
>>33871476
Smart contribution
Thank you for being an adult

>>33871492
I know it's unholy, but would it really be that horrid to keep it as is? I kinda like it.

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>>33871396
Well dang. that's quite the find. And by quite the find I mean that trade with the SKS was worth it 200%

>>33871501
>>33871452
>>33871404
>>33871375
And what contributions are these?

>>33871515
Yeah I was a little suspect about that. My guess is the guys just wanted something cheaper to shoot that still had some significance. But the rifle is quite nice, so I'm not complaining.

>>33871529
Board quality constraints
If you don't chemo cancer when it shows up it spreads.
How new are you around here?
My job has ALWAYS been to call out low quality bait posts

>>33871495
For an unsporterized Krag sure, for a bubba'd gun not really

>>33871495
>more expendable than a Krag
Offer him $100 for the Krag and take your damn SKS back before he tapcos it you fucking moron.

TAKE IT BACK RIGHT FUCKING NOW WHILE IT STILL HAS A CHANCE!

>>33871548
Oh so you just call yourself out constantly??

Just ignore the banter OP. That gun is an amazing find. Ammo will be hard to come by, but if you do reloading, it's worth trying to get a die set for it. These rifles are not an easy thing to get a hold of, and are real expensive. It's your call on what you want to do with it, but the most agreed option would be to return it to its former issued glory and give it an issued stock and sight

>>33871552
>>33871564
Sorry guys, just not fond of the SKS. He can do as he sees fit.

>>33871569
Do you see me calling out any of my posts?
God you are dumb
>>33871577
>I don't know what I am talking about
Way to mislead the OP kid

>>33871546
Yeah, it's definitely not something to complain about, I'd have traded an SKS for it too

>>33871514
>I know it's unholy, but would it really be that horrid to keep it as is? I kinda like it.
Yes, it really would be.

>>33871514
It has been bubba'd already.

Your SKS has NOT.
GET. IT. BACK.
Then offer $100 to keep the Krag.
But that SKS hasn't been destroyed; please keep it that way.

>>33871577
I've not reloaded before but I'm definitely looking into it now. Took me three hours of searching to find a vendor that had 30-40 in stock. $85 for 40 rounds. Yeah time to start reloading.

>>33871619
>>33871604
It had a scope mount and new stock. Everything else is original and stock. It's not that bad right?

>>33871637
>It had a scope mount and new stock. Everything else is original and stock. It's not that bad right?
Yes, it really is.

>>33871620
I did it myself for 32 ACP and 32 S&W long. When the rounds get to that pricing it's worth doing. Working on getting a 6.5x55 die set too. You've had experience before?

>>33871569
Yeah that's right, sit down kid
Adults are talking

>>33871637
Y-your SKS?

Oh fuck I'm gonna be sick.
You dumb ass licking dick sucking cum guzzling half brained incompetent unholy bastard.
Fuck you.

I hope the locking lugs shear off and the bolt takes the half of your brain that you do have with it.

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>>33871350
>restoring
>drilled and tapped

>>33871640
Well, that go get one yourself and un bubba it. I like it. Sorry.

>>33871667
Wut

>>33871645
No experience. But I am handy around a bench. Definitely time to learn. How much would getting set up for reloading cost me?

>>33871321

decent trade if you are going for a shooter. bad if you plan on trying to restore since that alone will cost more than the SKS.

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>>33871716
I would recommend a Lee turret press, takes a few steps out of the reloading process, and throws in a ton of goodies like primer feed and reloading manual. I use this one https://www.midwayusa.com/product/785993/lee-classic-4-hole-turret-press-deluxe-kit There are other options, but the price for what you get isn't too bad. Other sites will have it cheaper too. Outside of that you will need to do searching for what materials (bullets, primers, etc) are required for the caliber you're reloading. the Reloading manual will help with understanding which amount and types of powder you should start with and dimensions to adjust your dies for. Other than that, a digital caliper and some guides on youtube. Once you do it the first time, you get the hang of it pretty quick, a majority of reloading is measurement and adjustment on the dies so that you get consistent dimensions for cartridges

>>33871321
Sporterized Krags go for like $250, Yugo SKS are what like $450 now. OP you got screwed hard.


>>33871350
If the receiver has been drilled and tapped for that shitty scope you won't be able to truly restore it since it's been permanently changed. No collector in their right mind would buy that rifle when it's "restored."

>>33871404
Go fuck yourself you false valor fucker.

>>33871321
you got fucked dumb ass, the time of good krags has come and gone

>>33871343
Yeah, used to be very normal about a century ago, US Army selling off surplus KJ rifles and parts, it was not unusual for a gunsmith to buy a surplus KJ action and build it into a sporting rifle, some did *particularly* good jobs in doing so and rifles like those can actually be quite valuable, personally I think those should be treasured in their own right.

KJs weren't antique or rare or anything, it was cheap surplus, and it was miles cheaper to have a gun built like this than buying an off the shelf sporter, which could be quite expensive at the time.

This was NOTHING like Bubba with a hacksaw and a box of Tapco parts, this was done by people with skill and an understanding of what they were doing.

>>33871476
The guy who built that rifle probably died when the previous owner was a little kid. This shit was in vogue in like the 10's, 20's, 30's etc.

>>33872744
Yeah, I was hesitant to say this because I had gotten so far into thinking this, but these aren't as expensive as I thought they were. Is there a reason the Krag is cheaper than an SKS despite being so hard to find?

>>33871514
Keep it as it is, if you want an original Krag get another one later.
Also check to see if it's actually still in .30-40

>>33871640
>>33871619
>>33871667
Calm your fucking aspergers.

>>33872795
Probably because ammo isn't as common, and the SKS got a good reputation being a poor man's AK for a few decades.

If you like shooting on a budget then a reloading setup is a wise investment and would make it easier and cheaper to shoot an old workhorse like this.

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Vepr

>>33872843
That makes sense. But if that were wholly true, what makes arisakas and K31's expensive in comparison? They have less than common ammo as well

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>>33871452
>says it's a weapons board
>bitches about anon posting weapon whilst weapon-y feedback
you're funny, man.
>>33871321
anyways anon I'm sufficiently jelly. I've wanted a krag since I've seen one, they're quite unique.

>>33871321
BUBBA NO

>>33872744
Bubba is Bubba, there is no compromise, deal with it.

>>33874789
fuck me I'm too stoned for this
>whilst (providing no) weapon-y feedback

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Sako M39, i love it

>>33871375
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>>33871662
I honestly can't tell if Hunter is just some faggot who came over from ArfCom or is just a dedicated shit-poster. And if it's the latter, are the parody names like dumper 3-1 factual and hunter just the same person?

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>>33871321
SVT

>>33875124
How much you spend and where you get it from? I want one but i'm broke rn

>>33874970
Dedicated shitposter and hunterposting has become a meme

>>33874865
No, eat shit sperglinger, milsurp wasn't always a venue for collectors, it was an affordable way to have a working firearm, if you can't deal with that part of milsurp history, you're a dumb dipshit, you wouldn't protest milsurp AR parts being used in whatever builds now, nor would you protest it 50 years into the future.

>>33874865
Good thing you can't afford them, some of them are worth more than your car, yet you'd "restore it" to something of inherent less value because you're too autistic to look at them from any other perspective.

>>33872891
Arisakas and K31s are nicer, one is famed for WW2, and the other is a finely built straight-pull rifle with ammo being made still.

People kind of forget about the Krag, but they're plentiful and the ammo isn't cheap and common as with some other rifles.

>>33875174
SVTs are cheap in Canada, expensive in the US (they're still imported in Canada).

They're a piece of history and a neat plinker, but not too practical, accuracy is mediocre and magazines are not interchangeable between guns, meaning you would need to track down spare mags and have modified for your rifle, also 7.62x54mmR isn't really dirtcheap in the US anymore either.
If you want an old military automatic it's almost worth your time more to see if you can save up for a Garand (there's a bunch of them heading in from South Korea, so soon would be a good opportunity), or maybe an Egyptian Hakim (though surplus ammo isn't a great option for these, as the common Turkish stuff is generally WAY too hot for automatics).

>>33875459
>Egyptian Hakim
I actually already have a Garand but 30.06 is so fucking expensive, I have a stockpile of 7.62x54r because I shoot my mosins alot. That's what made me consider a SVT.

>>33871585
You...fuck you.
You're the reason I see ten of the fucking things being fingered by idiots at gun shows that have tapco stocks and shitty welded rails on the dust covers at every last fucking table every time I go to a gunshow.

You. You scum sucking piece of shit.
You contribute to the destruction of something that could easily be saved and has no reason to be destroyed.

>>33875510
>but 30.06 is so fucking expensive
Well you really sound like a guy who would get a lot of enjoyment out of getting into reloading, might look costly now, but it really pays for itself over time.

Get yourself a set for .30-06 and .30-40 then you'll see that you can shoot for quite a lot less. For an example, it is not hard at all to handload .38 Special for below 15 cents per round, that's a huge saving comparing to a lot of the off the shelf ammo.

>>33875565
Take a nap.

>>33875565
>angrily projecting your hopes and dreams onto someone who doesn't care
Boi.

>>33875566
My girlfriends dad has a huge reloading machine that basically does every part automatic for you http://www.dillonprecision.com/super-1050_8_1_23877.html I guess all i'd have to do is buy the .30-06 caliber type for it and then I can pump out tons of the stuff.

How about you tripfags fuck off while we look at guns?

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>>33874799
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>>33871667
You gen Z dipshits understand that Milsurp was a matter of an affordable working gun for the past one and a half centuries and that it's only in the 2000s that's become a venue for collectors, right?

If someone bought a surplus Mauser or Enfield in the 60's, his first thought was probably not "Oh man, history!", rather that would be second (or third, or fourth) to the fact that he got a good rifle for cheap that's either good enough as it is, or a good basis for a rebuild, by a competent smith.

It's in recent decades where commercial sporting arms became cheaper that sporterizing fell out of favor, why try to find an increasingly expensive and less common company or gunsmith to rebuild a gun when a similar sporting rifle is just as good, if not better, and available with more options, calibers and suitable features? It's in these times you see a dumbass with a hacksaw and angle grinder making monstrosities with JB welded caliber conversion sleeves in his garage (shit that would be laughed at by people in the past) because he heard from someone that a sporterized rifle was good and economical, not understanding why this time was long past and that for just a little bit more money (or the same, depending on the rifle in question), could have a vastly more practical and nice gun.

The SKS was absolutely shit cheap, at one point being commonly found for $99 or less, so no shit that people did things to them, it just stopped making sense with rising prices in milsurp and lower prices in commercial sporters. The era of sporterizing is dead, and it's either odd stragglers thinking "This common as dogshit 91/30 or M48 has a nice action, I want to customize it". Bubba is not going to be something you'll see in the future, because the Savage Axis and Ruger American exists and it makes no economical sense to sporterize, professionally or on your own.

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Also y'all are fucking hypocrites because I know more than half of you jerk off to the idea of Obrez'd Nagants, when that was an absolutely shit bubba way for an alcoholic Russian conscript to have a pistol in a time when the Russians didn't have a lot of pistols to go around. You tards also think they'd use regular rifle loads for them (more than anything wishing for a revolver), when that loud boom and bright fireball was thought of as undesirable.

>>33875593
Do it.

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>>33875361
What the fuck are you even trying to say? Putting milsurp parts into a different gun and bubba'ing a milsurp gun are two different things.

>>33875419
>can't afford them
Nah nigga, I only buy the real stuff

>worth more than my car
Sure, to retards.

>>33877284
bubba'd savages and rugers when?

>>33877338
There's no reason a professionally rebuilt rifle can't be valued for it's own history along with an original military rifle.

They both serve different purposes.

>>33877356
Someone must have already done that, even though they go out of their way to ensure that you won't find yourself wanting to.

>>33871321
Hey OP, I love scandinavian guns, I have an M39 Swede Mauser, and I was curious, is your Krag in 30-06, or in the 6.5x55 cartridge?

>>33875565
I spent $200 syrup bux on my sks and its the biggest piece of shit ive ever had the displeasure of shooting.

op did great on his trade.

>>33877372
"professional" bubba is still bubba. You destroy the history the rifle already has.

>>33871678

>Not making your gun how you like it
>Worrying about value

faux gun owner if im honest.

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>>33877338
>Putting milsurp parts into a different gun and bubba'ing a milsurp gun are two different things.

Yet people in this thread screech like banshees when it's quite plausible that the gun in the OP picture had never once been a complete military rifle and built on spare military parts and civilian market parts and labor.

And even if it was once an original rifle it doesn't matter because they were dirt cheap and really not that old back then, thus being among the most reasonable options for a hunting rifle at the time.
Hell, lots of people forget that actually capturing enemy rifles during war and bringing them back home was very often done explicitly to have a good rifle for free, often to sporterize, this was something that people were still doing in WW2.

>>33877431
It has no fucking history because it was spare parts or a rifle that spent it's entire existence in a a storage room.

Do you fucking cry about 91/30s too? There's more of them than you can fathom and the overwhelming majority of them have no war history at all, being shittily refurbished and sitting in cosmoline for decades before a westerner buys it thinking the gun has EPIC WORLD WAR HISTORY.

>>33871404
Retard trolling with a trip because you think you have a fanbase is pretty much aids tier.

You need to be doxxed and put into a box.

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>>33871452

Here is my 1940 Podolsk sniper that I modernized. I even put a green lazor so I can blind the durr before blowing its brains out.

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>>33874970
hunter 3-1 was originally a mega tryhard
but the name has since been co opted and taken over.
Any time he shows up, people copy him.
I bet these posts are the original hunter, they are just cringey enough to be so.

>>33877573
Shut up retard

>I "restored" an old surplus rifle that has been drilled
>not all original, but in the original shape and function
>/k/ hates me and tells me im stupid
>enjoy my rifle

Sometimes I wonder if milsurp dudes care more about value than shooting guns.

>>33877630
>milsurp dudes have no money
Like they care about value, if they did they wouldn't be buying milsurp to begin with
/k/ is retarded
OP deserves it for starting a blog post though

>>33877623

There is room in the coffin for two once you both skinny down from the aids

>>33877641
Shut up kid.
How new are you?
Hunter does actually have a dedicated fanbase. Even had a page on devianart for awhile

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I am absolutely in fucking love with it. Getting ready to order a shitton of 22 and more magazines.

>>33877477
The weapon does in fact have EPIC WORLD WAR HISTORY no matter how you Bubbas try to justify your garbage. It's a weapon of war made in a military weapons factory finished by trained armorers. Keep your filthy bubba hads off.

>>33877630
milsurp dudes care about both. You can shoot a gun and keep it in original condition.

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Haha OP I bought this and a No.4 Mk.1 for $300 you did shit

>>33877713
You know Springfield Armory themselves built a lot of these sporters inhouse, right?

>>33871321
Dude holy fuck you got shafted. The fuck were you thinking
>Trading an SKS for a fucking sporter worth maybe 200 bucks

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>>33871716
RCBS JR single stage 60$ used scale 40$ used dies 20$ case trimmer 20$ Caliper 15$ Dl a New Reloading manual that will get you started reloading equipment is like old tools and guns they cant manufacture them at the same handmade level of quality.

Also on inrange they were talking about how for a modern gun manufacturer to produce a new sks they would have to charge 2000$ for them

>>33878909
I think it would be closer to $1000, but it could be cheaper if they had the old Combloc tooling.

>>33877453
hi bubba

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got a Rossi 92 lever action in .454 Casull today

gonna take it out tomorrow for the first time

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Got all of this stuff recently, the holster was like 30 bucks when brand new they're about 70-80.

Also don't mind the mat it's pretty fucking old and beat up

>>33871667

SKS autists who spend more time memeing than shooting are cancer.

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>Traded a Yugo SKS
>for a Bubba'd Krag

>>33874865

Are you that guy who got trolled for almost a solid week in a thread about whether detachable mags or stripper clips were better for an SKS? The one who was accusing dozens of people of being the same guy?

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>not upgrading your SKS

>>33879178
>muh resale value

Hi Fudd.

>>33879778

Jesus, that was a fun thread.

>>33877630

Are you me?

For them, it's all about the resale value. They're Fudds flailing at imaginary Bubbas.

>>33878710

Some people just don't like the SKS. Now I love the SKS, but I also fear us becoming like the AR fanbase and turning into intolerable tryhard cancer.

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Had it for a few months but it's my most recent butt. It's an FN-49 that from the markings was built in Belgium and used by the Kingdom of Egypt. Uses 8mm Mau Mau and aside from the trigger assembly being incrusted in cosmo it is in really good shape.

>>33880034
"upgrading"

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>>33880034
I'm not opposed to plastic stocks for an SKS, because they're robust and functional working guns, that used to be stupid cheap, there's a utilitarian aspect to it. BUT, that looks like someone desperately wanting their gun to be like a Dragunov when the thing could never possibly hope to shoot the same tight groupings as one, optics are kind of a wasted venture on a rifle like this.

Likewise, it has faux detachable mags, which, really, aren't worth your time, the base gun is designed to feed from it's fixed mag. An SKS can be modified to accept and feed from AK magazines, reliably at that, but at that point, you might as well have saved yourself the effort and bought an AK on the spot, because a worked over SKS (be it with aftermarket parts or a serious conversion), just won't be a good substitute for an AK, and the SKS has LONG since climbed in price from where this would sound like a good idea.

You did fine. I'd take a Krag any day.

>>33872862

Da, comrade. Getting one of those in about a week.

Got this yesterday.

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>>33881537
Forgot pic lol.

>>33877838
No, you didn't. You had a close friend that happened to have this stuff and didn't give a shit about the value and/or you sharked some poor bastard because he was too lazy/clueless to google said value.
Fuck off, 99.99% of all transactions aren't like this.

>>33871476
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>>33871667
>>33874865
>>33875565
>>33877431
Bunch of fucking spergs all this thread, probably don't realize OP could likely check the serial number and find out when the rifle was built. The damn thing may have started as a Bannerman Sporter or was simply a spare receiver built into a sporting rifle. But it must really float their goat to shriek and gnash their teeth that a Krag was converted probably 50-75 years ago.
>>33878676
I have one of those rifles, an old NRA Sporter Springfield that was then rebuilt into a 300 Win Mag back in the early 1950's. Hell Remington sold off surplus M1917 receivers after World War I and the entirety of the Remington Model 30 line was built out of converted M1917's.

>>33881574
Nice FN

>>33871321
You be able to get better pictures of the rifle by any chance, just noticed there is no trace of the original rear sight so someone did a decent job. Love to see what the scope mount and scope is, easy way to date the rifle.

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>>33881708
Thanks anon.

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>>33881826
Ordered this holster too.

Bought a suppressor ready Sig P227 today. Now I just need to get the paperwork in for a suppressor. I'm thinking an Osprey 45

>>33881952
Pics?

>>33875459
>the common Turkish stuff is generally WAY too hot for automatics
The Hakim has an adjustable gas port for a reason, turn it to closed then slowly open it until the gun cycles.

Only downside is having to do this for each batch of ammo you run.

>>33877284
>it was affordable back in the day
This is why there are no more levernuggets that anyone can acItaly find ammo for.

Fucking morons who decide to bubba things.

This is why KJs that aren't bubba'd are a pain in the ass to find.

This is why Mausers, Enfields, Mosins, and many many more lesser known rifles are either going the way of the dodo or already there.

Fuck you guys.
If you don't appreciate what you have you eventually will when it's too fucking late.

>>33882068
Did you just ignore his entire post? Here, I'll lay it out nice and simple for you.

>Nobody gave a fuck about "muh huritage raifu" until the last couple decades
>People bubba'd milsurp because krags were as cheap as nuggets and worked better than what was on the shelf
>Autists like you come along half a century later and REEEEEEE your tiny little balls off

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>>33877284
Milsurps were valued back then too. It's just that they were cheap and idiots will be idiots. The truth of the matter is that 99% of all bubba'd guns get hacked up by someone trying to make it into something that it's not. They tinker with it. It doesn't work the way they want it, so they tinker with it some more. They repeat over and over until they finally throw it into the closet or under the bed and buy that Remchester that they really wanted to begin with.

You can still see it now with idiots that bought a Mosin, put a bunch of Archangel crap on it, with a airshit scope and wonder why they can't make it into muh "sniper rifle."

There really isn't much of an excuse for ignorance.

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>>33877460
>Yet people in this thread screech like banshees when it's quite plausible that the gun in the OP picture had never once been a complete military rifle and built on spare military parts and civilian market parts and labor.
Which never happened because all receivers were turned into rifles by Springfield. They just didn't keep spare parts like that around to them surplus off.

>And even if it was once an original rifle it doesn't matter because they were dirt cheap and really not that old back then, thus being among the most reasonable options for a hunting rifle at the time.
And their ignorance is why they cost so much now.

>>33877477
>Do you fucking cry about 91/30s too?
Yes. The same idiots that claim they have no history and aren't collectables are the same idiots complaining that they're $300 now. You idiots also chop up the really good ones that haven't been tinkered post war because you idiots don't care.

>>33877838
That stock has been sanded all to hell and back.

>>33882552
>saying baka three times in one sentence

Are you a teenage girl?

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>>33871375
"Hunter 3 1 actual "

>>33882494
That Arisaka deserves to be thrown into the sea of Japan.

>>33881687
Yeah, it's pretty frustrating.

>>33882068
>This is why there are no more levernuggets that anyone can acItaly find ammo for.
What, the 1895 Winchester? Probably because it didn't sell all that well and the design was weak shit that would exhibit significant wear over a few thousand rounds, few people bothered sporterizing these because they were expensive.

If you mean the Russian contract ones in 7.62x54mmR, then that's even more retarded, that cartridge had no fucking presence in America for most of the 20th century, and few of them made it the US, most being looked at as collectibles.

>This is why KJs that aren't bubba'd are a pain in the ass to find.
No they aren't, they're pretty common, the sporters are just common too because lots of surplus was available for the market at one point in time. Don't cry because you can't put enough effort into them.

>This is why Mausers, Enfields, Mosins, and many many more lesser known rifles are either going the way of the dodo or already there.
No they aren't, there's fucking shitloads of those rifles, neither bubba with a hacksaw or a professional sporterizing outfit put a fucking dent into those supplies.

>If you don't appreciate what you have you eventually will when it's too fucking late.
Oh yeah, we'll totally run out of the billion of shitty-ass 91/30s

What part of "Sporterizing is all but dead in 2017" don't you fucking understand?

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>>33882068
This strikes me as the fat spergs of /vr/ that REEE over the fact that people no longer forget about the NES and that the games aren't valued at $1 a piece because people started caring about them again.

You're upset that your precious collectibles aren't as cheap.

>>33882103
>because krags were as cheap as nuggets and worked better than what was on the shelf
I'm not sure I'd exactly say that, a .30-06 sporting rifle had a lot more range and power, and the action was only so strong, I'd say it'd fit neatly in the same category as a .30-30 Winchester 94, not quite full power.

Though it had good accuracy and the side loading was pretty nifty for your average Joe.

>>33882552
Does this moutbreather realize that the reason that milsurp has gone up in price isn't because the lot of it has been hacked up, but the fact that it's long since stopped coming in and the market has soaked it up?

There's no fucking shortage of Mausers, Enfields, Krags, Springfields, Carcanos, what fucking have you, they're all around, it's just that people FUCKING BOUGHT THE RIFLES, and NOW, IF YOU WANT THESE RIFLES, YOU'LL HAVE TO PAY WHAT THEY'RE WORTH

They are NOT SCARCE, supply and demand just caught up with each other, the overwhelming majority of all milsurp has never been sporterized or bubbad.

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I wish I could acquire a USFA Revolver, but even the really plain .38s and .45 Rodeo II revolvers are seeing Colt Python prices these days.

I mean they're pretty much worth it (and have a stronger lockwork than a Python), but man, I wish USFA didn't die.

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I got some no-name 1851 44 cal Colt Navy reproduction today for only $120. Since I'm a huge fagit, I also ordered a CSA outfit to go with it.

>>33877654
That is fucking awful to hear, he has friends.

>>33882552
>there's people who genuinely believe that milsurp go up in price because of bubba
It's like all your knowledge on the subject is actually a faulty understanding of stale memes.

>>33879261
Nice knowing you.

>>33887231
well it survived CIP proofing

gonna see what's what in 2 hours or so

>>33886892
Nothing gay about CSA.

Unless you want to Brokeback Mountain it with another CSA participant afterwards, but that business is none of mine.

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Picked this up for $250, apparently the previous owner only put 100ish rounds through it. Came with the TRS-25, which seems kind of retarded for being such an accurate gun but it works until I can get some proper glass for it.

>>33888176
It would be pretty gay if he didn't get it tailored. Sizes run way too big for the average person.

>>33887231
>>33887451
still got all my hands

yay

>>33880125
I mean I dont like the SKS at all, I traded mine for a 700 dollar Winchester at least. This dude got shafted

>>33880223
>that FN-49
>says 8mm Mau Mau

Do you live in Cuckifornia?

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>>33880034
>Tapco fucking anything

>>33891259
They make ok AK mags and AK triggers.

>>33881746
If you're still around I can

>>33877284
Some of what you said might be true, however we now live in 2017. So these RE worked mil surp guns have come full circle back to being worth near nothing. OP krag looks nice, if it shoots well and he likes it, then great. He probably did get shafted. If he likes it and shoots well. Who cares?

>>33882068
Levernuggets weren't a thing on the market then dipshit because 7.62x54mmR had no market presence in North America back then, they all came back as imports much later, and they were never very popular as utilities in America given their poor strength (they weren't all that popular in other cartridges either), neither bubba nor Bannerman got at them much, if at all.

>that nobody can find ammo for
Listen to this milsurp lover here! Boys, did you know you can't shoot an old milsurp rifle if the ammo isn't commonly commercially available anymore? No, fuck your handloading and shit, nobody who treasures antiques does shit like that.