With all the guns I've moved over the last year, about 50 I think, I made it a point to keep the first MilSurp I ever got. Not worth that much, I paid $100 for it in 1995, but it's sort of priceless like your first girlfriend. The rifle has import marks "GERMANY" and N.A. C.C. Ringefield NJ, so it came across the pond after 1968. It's a DOT44 a-block K98, made in February of '45 and rebuilt in the East Block after WW2 from three different rifles (stock/bolt/metal) into its present configuration, save I've removed a modified rear band/stock dorsal swivel. I still have those parts. The matched Sauer bolt is slick as snail snot after 24 years, and I've put between 750-1000 rounds out of it. It's well worn and not super accurate, but I shimmed the action to get the barrel to float, and it can still do the job.
As a side note if I've confused you, the Germans had invented an automated receiver milling machine that pumped out more receivers at the Czech Brunn I plant than they could complete into rifles in 1944. Despite years of bombing, 1944 was Germany's biggest production year.
I assume all of you can remember your first MilSurp, but how many of you HAVE your first MilSurp? So what was it, how long have you had it, and How much was it?
Let's see them.
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As a side note if I've confused you, the Germans had invented an automated receiver milling machine that pumped out more receivers at the Czech Brunn I plant than they could complete into rifles in 1944. Despite years of bombing, 1944 was Germany's biggest production year.
I assume all of you can remember your first MilSurp, but how many of you HAVE your first MilSurp? So what was it, how long have you had it, and How much was it?
Let's see them.
t
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