What piqued your interest about military surplus?

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Attachment 119890Always been a military history and movie buff but didn’t get my first milsurp rifle until a good friend gave me a bag-o-garand parts and a bbl in the ‘70s. Bought the missing parts and had a Marine armourer put it together in Jacksonvlle, NC. Next rifles were Krags, then ‘03s, trench guns and now a 1917. Have a bunch of 1911s and martial .45 revolvers [Smith, Colt and Webley] and all the accoutrements that go with them. I shoot cas matches with my lever action muskets and BAMM with the boltguns. And of course you’ve got to have uniforms and hats. We shot a BAMM last weekend [used a No1Mk3 and a ‘03 and 2 Smith .45 1918 revolvers] and will have a Wild Bunch this month, 1911s, M12 trench and a ‘94 Marlin. Nothing piqued my interest as I’ve always had it, just a gradual accumulation of stuff as interests evolved and changed. Fun stuff.