How Come

gandog56 · 05-02-2008, 04:51 PM

I can find plenty of places selling Russian, Finnish, Austrian, Swiss, and German C&R guns but no Japanese?

cheapblaster · 05-02-2008, 05:05 PM

The plentiful rifles you mention all are imported in large batches from long-term storage facilities in countries that dipped them in cosmoline and put them away at the end of their service. At some point it was decided that they are no longer useful for current military practice and put on the market. When that happens there are LOTS of them available.

To my knowledge, at the end of WWII the Japanese were almost totally disarmed. No such stashes were created, the few that come on the market come from private collections. (It would be cool if I'm wrong and a batch of 10,000 was discovered but I'm not counting on it.)

lefty o · 05-02-2008, 06:25 PM

jap guns were thrown in the ocean, or brought home with GI's.

SwedeSteve · 05-03-2008, 03:54 AM

gandog56 · 05-06-2008, 11:09 AM

Bummer. All my C&R guns so far are commie.

SwedeSteve · 05-06-2008, 01:57 PM

How about a Swede? Or an Enfield. Or a Mauser. Or a Carcano. Or a 1903?

Capt'n Mil Coll · 05-06-2008, 09:40 PM

Or another Mosin. Or two or three.

squirrelbaster · 05-06-2008, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by SwedeSteve

How about a Swede? Or an Enfield. Or a Mauser. Or a Carcano. Or a 1903?

oddly enough thats almost exactly what my wish list looks like! but the 1903 is first.

gandog56 · 05-08-2008, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SwedeSteve

How about a Swede? Or an Enfield. Or a Mauser. Or a Carcano. Or a 1903?

Well I just ordered a Steyr M95 from SOG. Is that Austrian?

cheapblaster · 05-09-2008, 03:35 PM

SOG is offering both Hungarian and Austrian rifles. I suspect unless you specified Hungarian the rifle you get will be Austrian. Post some pictures of your blue/green shoulder after you fire it! :-)

gandog56 · 05-09-2008, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by cheapblaster

SOG is offering both Hungarian and Austrian rifles. I suspect unless you specified Hungarian the rifle you get will be Austrian. Post some pictures of your blue/green shoulder after you fire it! :-)

I was just thinking about that since my shoulder is still sore from shooting my Mosin's last Monday!

Pain is just weakness leaving your body, as my ex-marine friend keeps telling me.

Oops, just got an email from Quantum Tracking. Looks like I should get it Tuesday.

My grandpappy was Austrian. That's why I wanted an Austrian. Yeah, it was the Austrian. The Hungarians cost a bunch more.

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SwedeSteve Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: AnchorTown, Alaska Posts: 4,356	How about a Swede? Or an Enfield. Or a Mauser. Or a Carcano. Or a 1903? __________________ You can tune a piano, but you can't Tuna Fish!

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Capt'n Mil Coll Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Right behind you. -NRA Member- Posts: 758	Or another Mosin. Or two or three. __________________ You can't negotiate with a zombie! If all else fails do the unexpected.

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05-02-2008, 05:05 PM	#2
cheapblaster Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SF Bay area, California Posts: 23	The plentiful rifles you mention all are imported in large batches from long-term storage facilities in countries that dipped them in cosmoline and put them away at the end of their service. At some point it was decided that they are no longer useful for current military practice and put on the market. When that happens there are LOTS of them available. To my knowledge, at the end of WWII the Japanese were almost totally disarmed. No such stashes were created, the few that come on the market come from private collections. (It would be cool if I'm wrong and a batch of 10,000 was discovered but I'm not counting on it.)

05-02-2008, 06:25 PM	#3
lefty o Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: mn Posts: 4,240	jap guns were thrown in the ocean, or brought home with GI's.

05-06-2008, 11:09 AM	#5
gandog56 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Montgomery, IL. Posts: 683	Bummer. All my C&R guns so far are commie.

05-09-2008, 03:35 PM	#10
cheapblaster Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SF Bay area, California Posts: 23	SOG is offering both Hungarian and Austrian rifles. I suspect unless you specified Hungarian the rifle you get will be Austrian. Post some pictures of your blue/green shoulder after you fire it! :-)