tapout Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Just wondering anyone else a gun collector. Here is one of mine Ar 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christie Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Um...no.Not me lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffb Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Here's mine Tam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerk Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 No, couldn't afford it, and probably wouldn't 'collect', even if I could, but definitely find them interesting ....... like those two Colt Walkers my avatar is holding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMEDICx90 Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I don't collect but I really really want a Barrett M107A3 .50 cal. I don't know why and I realize its impracticality is phenomenal but I really want one for my coffee table lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tapout Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 I don't collect but I really really want a Barrett M107A3 .50 cal. I don't know why and I realize its impracticality is phenomenal but I really want one for my coffee table lol! I wish I could get one too but u couldn't be even grandfathered in if u were to find one to buy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron1100us Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 (edited) A few Imported from B West in 1993 Russian Dragunov Tiger 7.62x54R 1961 Seneca Green Nylon 66 Edited September 24, 2013 by Aaron1100us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tapout Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Nice collection u got there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron1100us Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerk Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 The one in the vice says '1961 Seneca Green'? looks like an Enfield .303 to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron1100us Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) Sorry, must have misplaced the wording. Yes, That one is a 1911 Lee Enfield No 1 MK3 with Australian 2nd Military District markings. 102 years old and shoots great. Don't plan on shooting it very often though. .303 Brit is expensive and harder to find than other ammo. Going to start reloading though. I got the 1961 Nylon 66 fom my Aunt just a few years ago. I'm 39 and that is the gun that my Uncle taught me how to shoot with when I was 10 years old. My Uncle passed away in 2006. Found out two years ago that my Aunt still had that gun. Got it for my B Day two years ago:) Great shape and shoots like it did back then. Took my first rabbit with that gun. The Dragunov I found at a garage sale last October lol. Don't think they knew exactly what they had. Here are two pics from that garage sale. Edited September 25, 2013 by Aaron1100us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron1100us Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Added the SVD Stock Set, Bi Pod and 10 round mag. I did keep the original Tiger Stock Set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron1100us Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Range finding 4x24 scope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron1100us Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Lets see some more pics. Would love to hear about your guns as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerk Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Lets see some more pics. Would love to hear about your guns as well. Nothing special, practical and common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron1100us Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Figured there would be some more posts by now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irwink Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I used to collect military rifles that ranged in period from the Civil War through WWII. The only "newer" one I had was a Russian SKS. But I started selling them off a couple of years ago. I had too many and they were just collecting dust for the most part. I've still got a few though. My favorite is an M1 carbine. I call that one my fun gun. Got a few handguns but was always more of a long gun kinda guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthenburg Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I envy you guys for having the luxury to purchase those stuff legally. Here in our place - it's a complete gun-ban. Even my license had took me into custody for some minutes of interview. tsk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckyon Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Nothing too special. S&W .38 SPL +P J-frame airweight (my conceal carry piece) S&W M&P 9mm 17+1 Remmington 35 Cal Lever-action built 1908 Remmington 22 LR built 1932 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havamal Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I have a couple of rifles nothing too noteworthy: Winchester lever action 30/30 Scoped 308 (Enfield I think) Springfield 12 gauge Couple of old 22's My one collectors piece is a Japanese infantry matchlock circa 1650 - took this one to the Antiques Road Show and they happened to have a gun specialist from Japan there, but he could not give me an estimated value due to the fact he had never seen one before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irwink Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I have a couple of rifles nothing too noteworthy: Winchester lever action 30/30 Scoped 308 (Enfield I think) Springfield 12 gauge Couple of old 22's My one collectors piece is a Japanese infantry matchlock circa 1650 - took this one to the Antiques Road Show and they happened to have a gun specialist from Japan there, but he could not give me an estimated value due to the fact he had never seen one before. Your Japanese matchlock sounds cool. I would guess crafted by a single smith and perhaps one of a kind. That one I'd hang on to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havamal Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Your Japanese matchlock sounds cool. I would guess crafted by a single smith and perhaps one of a kind. That one I'd hang on to. I'll have to try and get a pic of it this weekend and post it. When I took it in to the Antique Road Show the guy from Japan said that it is very rare because typically the infantry arms were mostly ruined, the only ones that survived in good condition were the ones for officers because they were very ornate and hardly ever used! He disassembled it and took a rubbing of an inscription under the barrel that he believed was the makers mark... he was going to take it to a university in Japan for translation because it was written in a form of Japanese that it no longer used and he could not translate it... never heard back from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irwink Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I'll have to try and get a pic of it this weekend and post it. When I took it in to the Antique Road Show the guy from Japan said that it is very rare because typically the infantry arms were mostly ruined, the only ones that survived in good condition were the ones for officers because they were very ornate and hardly ever used! He disassembled it and took a rubbing of an inscription under the barrel that he believed was the makers mark... he was going to take it to a university in Japan for translation because it was written in a form of Japanese that it no longer used and he could not translate it... never heard back from him. Cool stuff. History kind of talks to me through old firearms - imagining the men who crafted them and those that carried them. Havamal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerk Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 I envy you guys for having the luxury to purchase those stuff legally. Here in our place - it's a complete gun-ban. Even my license had took me into custody for some minutes of interview. tsk. For now, but their are plenty in the 'gun control' crowd (I won't mention any political affiliation) that would love to change that, and put the U.S. citizen even further under the government boot, and thus resembling more your country. Our 2nd amendment protects the rest of them, and thus irks those who wish to diminish them, although they try to chip away at them at every opportunity. Without it, the rest are simply words. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined" Patrick Henry Havamal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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