My C&R's.

[Radman64]

AG-42 Hakim in 8mm from the late 40's
Mk4 No1 42 dated Savage manufactured
M1 Garand 43 dated Springfield
Mk5 No1 1964 Indian manufactured jungle carbine
K98 ERMA manufactured in1939
Used to be fun and ammo was dirt cheap lol.

 

[RustyIron]

Yeah... back in the good old days some guns I bought just because ammo was cheap.

 

[DRH50BMG]

Learn to reload and even the odd calibers are still fun to shoot. I am reloading 8mm right now from 30-06 cases so I can continue to have range safe, non magnetic ammo.

 

[skb720]

Polish P-64
Chinese Type 54 Tokarev, dates to 1971
Chinese Type 56 SKS, dates to 1969
CZ 70
Romanian Tokarev

 

[Radman64]

I had a Romanian, it was a sweet shooter.

 

[Radman64]

Learn to reload and even the odd calibers are still fun to shoot. I am reloading 8mm right now from 30-06 cases so I can continue to have range safe, non magnetic ammo.

Range safe means no one is down range, please elaborate why steel core ammunition is bad, is lead better in your opinion getting buried in dirt?
Never heard of steel poisoning.

 

[DRH50BMG]

Range safe means no one is down range, please elaborate why steel core ammunition is bad, is lead better in your opinion getting buried in dirt?
Never heard of steel poisoning.

Unfortunately in dry California, ranges keep catching on fire and magnetic ammo is therefore banned from the public ranges. Even BLM now has restrictions on steel core ammo, which sucks as I have large piles of it that I would like to shoot. The fine is pretty steep at 100K max possible.

https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/BLM0021206_CA%20Statewide%20Fire%20Order_final_508.pdf

 

[Radman64]

I pretty much only shoot at a private club where the back drop on the range is a solid dirt embankment cut out from the side of the mountain, about the only steel core I shoot would be my WW2 German 8mm, I think my green tip 62 gr 5.56 is steel core but I dont shoot it, I only blast the 55 grain stuff.

 

[Eatdirt]

Anyone here get some of the C+ R items Big-5 used to sell ?
I think that's what started my collection..

Where's my coupon for the $ 99 Mosin ????

 

[bonesurf]

Vz52. the conversion sleeve works as long as you dont go hog wild mag dumping and get the chamber too hot
very soft shooter 7.62x39 with the conversion sleeve. the one thing is that most of them are repaired stocks. you can get new stocks, but they are relatively pricey.

 

[DRH50BMG]

Big 5 was ok but condition was always hit or miss unless the sales person let you pick through their inventory in the back. The deals at the importer, Century International Arms, could not be beat. Deanna Furman was my sales rep, she would call me on my cell with any new ammo or C&R rifle deal as soon as it would come in. I still regret not buying more 900 round cases of the non magnetic Yugo 8mm at $50.00 a case shipped. You can't even buy large rifle primers that cheap now. Past experience leads to wisdoms, like "buy it cheap, stack it deep".

 

[bonesurf]

a Jungle conversion RIA Enfield. fun gun altho probably a navy arms conversion rather than something actually done at RIA

 

[Radman64]

Vz52. the conversion sleeve works as long as you dont go hog wild mag dumping and get the chamber too hot
very soft shooter 7.62x39 with the conversion sleeve. the one thing is that most of them are repaired stocks. you can get new stocks, but they are relatively pricey.

I had one in the 90's when I could order the original ammo for dirt cheap out of the shotgun news, it was a fun shooter.

 

[Radman64]

Anyone here get some of the C+ R items Big-5 used to sell ?
I think that's what started my collection..

Where's my coupon for the $ 99 Mosin ????

Man the deals & selections Big 5 used to have in the 90's was off the hook, K98's, Enfield's, Nagant's, Austrian Steyr's, I bought them all lol.

 

[Eatdirt]

Man the deals & selections Big 5 used to have in the 90's was off the hook, K98's, Enfield's, Nagant's, Austrian Steyr's, I bought them all lol.

I got to know the Manger back then.
Good gun guy. Too.
Would strike up a conversation about different guns.
When the Deal of the Month would come in , he let me pick thru the lot..
Once scored a 8mm Yugoslavia Mauser that had a org. German k98 bayonet with it

 

[Radman64]

I did the same thing when I lived in Reno and got to be friends with the manager, when new shipments came in he would let me go through them as I was always buying to resell at the gun shows. I found quite a few hex 91/30's (they were 79.00 back then) and if he found one he would put it aside for me as I would come in all the time, they would sell for 150.00 at the shows. Same with the Russian captured K98's, I found some really beautiful one's that would sell very quickly. Believe it or not quite a few people had no idea Big 5 sold them and I would get asked all the time how I kept having new ones every show lol.
I also found numerous WW1 dated Enfield's that were pretty clean & all matching, everyone of them had unit markings stamped on the brass bolt ring on the stock.

 

[SVT-40]

AG-42 Hakim in 8mm from the late 40's
Mk4 No1 42 dated Savage manufactured
M1 Garand 43 dated Springfield
Mk5 No1 1964 Indian manufactured jungle carbine
K98 ERMA manufactured in1939
Used to be fun and ammo was dirt cheap lol.

Hakim production began in Egypt in 1956 and continued until 1969. All were in 8mm Mauser.

The Swedish produced the AG42 and AG42/B "Ljungman" from 1942 until 1945, and in the year 1955. All were in 6.5x55mm.

If you look on the left side of the receiver of your Hakim the year of production is stamped there as in the pic's below. 1959 above and 1956 below.