A trip down memory lane here.........
43 dated M44, yes it was a 43. Norinco SKS. 42 dated 91/50. It was a full length 91/30 and in the 50s they cut them down to M38 specs. I miss all three of these guns.
You can clearly see where they scrubbed the long rear sight when they cut it down. 2000 meters was already very optimistic for the full length 91 and irons IMO in the first place.
At a 100 yards all three were accurate enough for what they were. On the 91/50 when cut down you were left with a nice new crown that wasn't worn down like a lot of Mosins floating around which lent it towards being very accurate. The trigger still felt like a double action revolver though. The 43 dated M44 was the one I should have never let get away. At the time I didn't know that a 43 date was rare and desirable. Oh the ignorance of being young and dumb back then.
After missing the two Mosin carbines and that SKS I wound up with this guy as a consolation prize. At the time I was led to believe it was a real deal bonafide sniper. Turned out to be a Century reproduction. Lessons learned. I never really like this one. The bore was still servicable but not the best of the barrel and the trigger was even worse on this one that the other two. But again at the time being young and dumb I didn't know how to pick out a good one.
Had a Yugo M48 briefly. 8mm proved to be too hard to find at the time so I never really gave this one a fair chance.
Romanian WASR 10/63 kinda counts I guess. Although as I understand it they are more for the commercial market than anything else but maybe have some surplus parts kit parts in them. To this day I don't honestly know.
Pistol wise I had this bad ass CZ 52 for a long time.
7.62x25 is one zippy lil mother you know what. The brass I swear would kick 20 yards it seemed sometimes. It sure slung em for sure.
Somehow I never got a photograph of my CZ 82 Makarov 9mm. Loved that thing too.
Yes for a while there I was totally into buying up former combloc milsurp stuff.
Like an idiot I let all this stuff go for other things and kinda regret it sometimes.
I've kept some photos on my photobucket to go down memory lane like this. Thanks for letting me remember.