1952 SA Garand

[Witchywoman]

Great list. Most of my sweetness I fell into. My Lux FN49 I traded of a Yugo 59/66, a commercial SKS and a home-grown SKS Paratrooper at the height of the plague panic, the seller was asking $2400 bucks. My Egyptian mixer FN was hiding in a closet at a yard sale missing the mag, $250, it was one of my last C&R cash and carries before Kali screwed the pooch on that. PAX

I used to see SKS-D's all over CA before the laws there went bad and i split.

[running-man]

That 8mm from SG in cans is not a bad deal. Yes its turk and it takes some time to delink but its far better than the older 1939 stamped turk I had before. I have not experienced any ruptures or bolts locking up like before in the other stuff.

https://www.sgammo.com/product/surplus-ammo-sale/240-round-can-8mm-mauser-155-grain-fmj-turkish-surplus-ammo-linked-1919-ma

Yes, the 8mm at SGAmmo is not too bad these days for milsurp.  Honestly, I have more than enough Turkish 8mm.  One of the running jokes around here (besides me not owning a Mosin Nagant) is that RM had it so bad that one year I was cleaning out the closet in my toddler daughter's room and happened upon several very heavy, very tightly packed sealed crates that I had no idea were in there.  Turns out they were full of pristine 1950's through 1970's Turkish 8mm on strippers in 70 round bandoleers that I had bought for 5 cents a round circa 2002, squirreled away, and promptly forgot about.  Needless to say the wife was not at all pleased.  She was even less pleased when I had to relocate them to under our bed because all the other closets in that house were already mostly full of various C&R goodies. 

At any rate, that (very) minor speed bump has been resolved with a move to a new house with several hundred square feet of pure C&R goodness storage space.  I do love the greek 8mm.  I bought a very large lot made in the 1940's off gunbroker for right about 50 cents per round during one of the early panics when 8mm was averaging $1.25 per round (if you could even find it) one time thinking I could at least use the brass and bullets if it turned out to be garbage ammo.   That stuff was awesome however.  Really nice consistent shooting ammo, as good as Romy or Yugo ball in my opinion!

It works both ways though.  I bought Iranian (Persian before the Shah was deposed) 8mm and that stuff was downright terrifying.  Corroded brass, iffy powder, not great primers.  Hangfires up to a couple seconds when it did fire.  Still have almost 1000 rounds of that stuff I keep thinking I'll do something with and I still haven't done anything with it....

[Witchywoman]

That 8mm from SG in cans is not a bad deal. Yes its turk and it takes some time to delink but its far better than the older 1939 stamped turk I had before. I have not experienced any ruptures or bolts locking up like before in the other stuff.

https://www.sgammo.com/product/surplus-ammo-sale/240-round-can-8mm-mauser-155-grain-fmj-turkish-surplus-ammo-linked-1919-ma

Yes, the 8mm at SGAmmo is not too bad these days for milsurp.  Honestly, I have more than enough Turkish 8mm.  One of the running jokes around here (besides me not owning a Mosin Nagant) is that RM had it so bad that one year I was cleaning out the closet in my toddler daughter's room and happened upon several very heavy, very tightly packed sealed crates that I had no idea were in there.  Turns out they were full of pristine 1950's through 1970's Turkish 8mm on strippers in 70 round bandoleers that I had bought for 5 cents a round circa 2002, squirreled away, and promptly forgot about.  Needless to say the wife was not at all pleased.  She was even less pleased when I had to relocate them to under our bed because all the other closets in that house were already mostly full of various C&R goodies. 

At any rate, that (very) minor speed bump has been resolved with a move to a new house with several hundred square feet of pure C&R goodness storage space.  I do love the greek 8mm.  I bought a very large lot made in the 1940's off gunbroker for right about 50 cents per round during one of the early panics when 8mm was averaging $1.25 per round (if you could even find it) one time thinking I could at least use the brass and bullets if it turned out to be garbage ammo.   That stuff was awesome however.  Really nice consistent shooting ammo, as good as Romy or Yugo ball in my opinion!

It works both ways though.  I bought Iranian (Persian before the Shah was deposed) 8mm and that stuff was downright terrifying.  Corroded brass, iffy powder, not great primers.  Hangfires up to a couple seconds when it did fire.  Still have almost 1000 rounds of that stuff I keep thinking I'll do something with and I still haven't done anything with it....

Its always fun to discover stuff you forgot you bought!!!! Why was she upset? I'd have been jumping around for joy.
That 1939 turk I had in the early 2000's was indeed scary. I got to the point that I always wondered if I was going to blow half my face off. It was a 1939 head stamp and it was the very old worn olive green bandoleers on silver clips. That stuff would lock up my bolt in a Turk Mauser and a Vz24 that I used to have. It was very hard to unlock the bolt after every shot. The recoil was overly strong, and you often would see ruptures in the base/center of case. I am glad I shot most of that batch up and sold 2  bandoleers I had left. That stuff came from J&G sales around 2002-2005.

[Greasemonkey]

Its always fun to discover stuff you forgot you bought!!!!

Yeah.. thats me. 

besides me not owning a Mosin Nagant)

I'm telling you.. we will do a.. Go Fund Me.. it would rock the collectors world if RM owned a Mosin.