Military surplus is such a dead market. You might as well just go on gunbroker and try to win a bidding war because anyone savvy enough to use the internet is going to just look up what they can charge you for it anyway. Alternatively, you can find a local shooting club and see if they have a board. You can put up a in search of poster. And if you happen to want to Garand in 308 instead of 30-06, the CMP makes those
Im looking for a K31 and Mas 36 in 308 unfortunately. Do love the CMP though
Haven't owned one personally but I would not recommend wasting currency on that no matter what. The conversion process was terribly sloppy.
in the 70s 80s and early 90s gun companies would take out ads in trade magazines and such like just to shit on the competition. I'm glad we are going back.
When every firearm is almost identical you had better do something. "This company made me laugh on the social medias so that solidifys my desire to purchase their striker fired polymer handgun over that other company" can be very real
that's why I've moved on to vintage and obscure sporting rifles and guns. you can get some absurdly high quality stuff for pennies on the dollar because its "out of fashion" literal hand made rifles/shotguns for way way less than what they were when new accounting for inflation.
I'm planning on doing that too, I've already picked up some dead-end accessories that will never be made again and I've got my eye on one or two sporting rifles that are legitimately great and priced under a thousand.
Since you've mentioned M1 Garand ammo, I'll share a loading recipe. 47 grains of Viht N135 pushing any old 150gr bullet is extremely soft on the Garand's action, to the point where I had to re-install my factory gas plug because it didn't want to cycle with a ported gas plug installed. That stuff is some of the best Garand powder out there and it's pretty cheap.
on the rifle end if been eyeing up some Ross Rifle sporters. high quality, beautiful wood typically. only problem is going to be brass. .280 Ross (or .280 rimless nitro express in the UK) has not been made in quite a while but was one of the first cartridges to break the 3,000FPS barrier and fairly flat shooting out to 1,000 yards for the time (1907).
screen quality in bright sunlight, relatively light weight, removable battery preferable since recharging during matches can be annoying or if you do long strings of fire or forget to do it the night before a match, i personally like the ones that have memory to separate strings of splits as separate rounds vs the ones that just time from shot to shot or require an app for basic functions. i have an old KST1000 which is probably too expensive for non competitive shooters, but the Pocket Pro is super common and very useful for most situations that aren't needing drop testing or app connectivity.
Primary Arms has a specific screw and washer for the microprism mounts https://www.primaryarms.com/primary-arms-carry-handle-hardware-kit
Except for AR10s are way cooler. The PWS Mk2 line is best here.
You got it backwards. The AR10 is the more functional platform, but the FAL is way cooler. AR10s are only really cool in retro configuration since you don’t see those often
Actual companies, probably not. Since it's the Ruger X Magpul pistol I'd assume Magpul will be working their magic only after sales hit a certain threshold.
