(BTW, please tell Yahoo that there are as many if not more SHOOTERS out there than HUNTERS! Where’s the SHOOTING section?)
Here’s a partial list of my collection:

1888 German Commission Rifle
1893 Spanish Oviedo Mauser (via Mexico)
1891 Mosin Nagant
91/30 Mosin Nagant
1938 Mosin Nagant
1944 Mosin Nagant
SKS Yugo
MAK-90 Chinese AK-47 semi
M96 Sweedish Mauser
K31 Swiss Carbine
M95 Austrian Manlicher Carbine
M38 Carcano Carbine
MAS-36 French Carbine
No.1 Mk III British Enfield SMLE
No. 4 Enfield
M48 Yugo Mauser
1893 Turk Mauser
1903 Turk Mauser
1938 Turk Mauser
1938 Turk Short Rifle
K98k German Mauser
24/47 Yugo Mauser
99 Japanese Arisaka
M1 Garand
1903 Springfield
Browning Hi-Power 9mm
Bulgarian Makarov 9

There’s a few more I can’t think of now. My favorites? The Swede, The Swiss K31 and the most accurate…..The Turkish M38 of all things!
I also love the SKS….ugly, rugged, easy to shoot and clean. I would recommend one to everyone.

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im a gun collecter more along the lines of military firearms, but i do own a few shotguns. well im wondering what can i buy from under 275 thats worth buying. i got a 410, 20 gauge , 22LR , and a 1935 Mosin Nagant. Im interested in purchaceing a cheep SKS and spending a little cash now and again to add on. Thats anoth

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a good bolt action for the price that has good accuracy because mounting a scope on the sks is not gonna be me. I want a bolt action before i waste money on a scope mount and scope for the sks. ty

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Which is louder, the 5.56X45 or 7.62X39?

Many people say the 5.56 is louder then the 7.62X39 dude to the much higher gas pressure(62,000 psi for 5.56 vs only 45,000 psi for 7.62×39) and that the bullet is almost 1000 ft per second faster. Is this true? I get mixed answers, some say the 5.56 is louder, others say the 7.62X39 is louder.

I know the 5.56 has a sharper sound while the 7.62X39 has more of a duller sound.

Also how does the 5.56X45 and 7.62X39 compare to the 7.62X51 NATO/.308 which has more powder?

Anyone who owns or fired both an AR-15/M4/M16 and an AK-47/SKS could help me?

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I’m looking to fill my gun cabnit with a few surplus rifles(mostly target shooting and maybe varmint hunting). When I think of surplus rifles I think of the mosin nagant, kar98, springfield, lee enfield, sks, ak47, and other popular military rifles. I want reliabilityy, cheap ammunition, and decent/good accuracy. Whats my best bet? I would like to pay between 0-0 for each rifle.

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I have seen many definitions.

One is that it is a weapon that can switch between semi-automatic and fully automatic fire. But, a Thompson sub-machine gun can also do this and it is not an assault rifle it is a submachinegun. Another definition is that it fires an intermediate round, something between a rifle round and a pistol round. An AR-15 fires an intermediate round and it is just a semiautomatic rifle that looks "mean"….I don’t consider it an assault rifle, it is just a semi-automatic rifle to me.

The phrase seems bogus to me. It seems that whenever someone wants to make a gun look "bad" they call it "assault rifle". "Assault" also means "attack" so it also seems like the definition depends on what you are using it for. You could assault someone with any rifle…does that mean a bolt action .22 cricket is an assault rifle too?

I feel that if there is no definite defintion that everyone honors and that we should just make up a new term and scrap "assault rifle".
I pretty much have a good idea of what they are, the definition dosn’t seem to be rock hard to me though. A lot of people seem to like to distort it into being something it isn’t. I tihnk we should make a new term and first thing make an accurate definition. Assault Rifle was supposedly coined by Hitler and was not really defined at the time of it’s making thus allowing for all manner of interpretations. I know several people who thing my SKS is an assult rifle just because because it has a bayonet, a grenade launcher and looks kind-of-ish-like an AK-47.

I just think Assault Rifle has been too over used, over defined and has just become a bad phrase.
Now select fire can’t be right because the MP43/44 is only semi-auto and full-auto. There is no burst fire mode. If we make it have 3 fire modes the original assault rifle will no longer be an assault rifle. If we count 2 fire modes things like Thompson’s will be assault rifles and they are not rifles. I find that every option contradicts itself in some way….this is a very complex problem, we are trying to undo 60 years of error.

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I’m looking to fill my gun cabinet with a few surplus rifles(mostly target shooting and maybe varmint hunting). When I think of surplus rifles I think of the mosin nagant, kar98, springfield, lee enfield, sks, ak47, and other popular military rifles. I want reliability, cheap ammunition, and decent/good accuracy. Whats my best bet? I would like to pay between 0-0 for each rifle.

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