*** September 2010 Purchases ***

[Badger]

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Show us all what great deals you made this month !!! :dancingbanana:

Regards,
Badger

[Claven2]

Just picked up this little number from P&S. Believe it or not, I think the supply is drying up (my opinion) and since I sold my last nice one a few years ago when they were everywhere, I decided it was time to re-buy ;)

This one is a nice little 1940 Izhevsk (first yr production) that still has an Izhevsk stock. It's mostly Izhevsk parts too aside from the trigger group and bolt carrier. Bore nice and shiny. Looks to have transitted through Germany based on the proof marks (SSC stamp and DE09 stamp on the receiver flat are modern German commercial proofs). This was one of P&S' last $325 rifles, there may be one left but the remainder are either kovrov rifles, marine stocked versions (which makes no sense to me since the stocks were swapped around at refurb???) and ex-snipers all for $500 and up. Note the P&S rifles have proper full-length mags (pinned) as opposed to most of the other current sellers who are selling rifles with mags physically shortened (ugly as f@ck!).

The sling is a legit WW2 expedient sling I had in my spares drawer.

http://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2010/09/DSCN1864-1.jpg
http://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2010/09/DSCN1866-1.jpg
The only stock repair. It was a little more "gappy" when I got it but I filled the seams with matching garnet shellac and blended it in better.
http://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2010/09/DSCN1867-1.jpg

Only real downside to this rifle is that it's a 1940 early rifle but has a late war crude (non-matching) magazine with blued-over pits. They don't look like post-manufacture rust to me, so I'm thinking it's just a later made mag manufactured from hot-rolled sheet steel and all the flake was not sanded off when it was made. Ideally this rifle would have an earlier smooth-bodied well finished mag, but oh well. I'll live with it - far better than one of the shortened mags the most recent imports have.

[Teleoceras]

A week ago, I had decided to purchase a M91/30 Mosin-Nagant after recently having so much fun with my M39. She has a hex reciever and was built in 1935 at Tula.