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Any here collect military weapons?

What do you have?

Sold all my stuff. Now I'm dumping all my Great War stufff.

got a variety of stuff, mostly vet bring-back items, German, Japanese, etc...

Looking to liquidate it in the future...just not sure if now is the time or not..

Sure is no shortage of areas of collecting when it comes to WWII. Uniforms, patches, field gear, helmets, bayonets, fighting knives, theater knives, trench art, photos, letters/documents, medals, awards, optics, firearms! ....and the list goes on..

dave

Garands are fun to collect

ANyone have a clapped out S-42 1937 K-98? I'd prefer one that had a hard life and can be a rebarreled shooter, to go with my grandpa's S-42 Luger.

FEMARU Model 1937 (Hungary) .380

Walther P38 9mm

I sold most of mine. I still have 1911 Colt, made in 1918. An M1 Carbine, made by Underwood in 1943. And a pistol that was a GI bring back, A pre war Walther PPK, that belonged to Goering....lol. The PPK was supposedly found on after a battle somewhere in France. Just kidding about old Hermann.

I have a pile of them. Been buying from the CMP for 15 years. M1's, carbines, 1903 and 03-A3's. 1917. Not really WW 11 but Argentine Mausers and Yugo Mausers, Fun to shoot stuff. Just got a Garand from the CMP made in 41, before Pearl Harbor.

Lee Enfields?

Already gone, sorry!

The coolest one I ever held was a Johnson 1941.

We at a gun show years ago and a guy we knew parked it on our table. He said see if you can get 600 dollars for it. It was there very long. 600 bucks then was like 1800 now😒

Cz27, brought back from Europe by my Grandfather, Nazi Eagle on gun, holster with spare clip.


Clip, that's what Pap called it.

Not a collector but inherited this from my grandfather. Kept in a sock in his tackle box for years for shootin snakes. It was made in 1944.

Iv'e got lots of odds and ends my dad brought home. He was a pretty typical infantry scrounger. Men who move largely on their own feet couldn't pack out a lot of big stuff. We have several Wermacht tri-fold wallets with the owner's papers in them. One of them is blood soaked with a .30 cal. hole through it. We also have a tail light beacon off a Stuka. Dad was still on his invasion boat off Normandie when a Stuka came through, bombing and straffing. Dad was assigned to a half track with a Ma Deuce mounted on it, and he got on the gun and engaged the Stuka. He said you could have walked across the tracer fire being thrown up at that plane. Somebody hit it and knocked it down on land, and after things died down, Dad went and found the wreck and retrieved the tail light beacon, and a piece of tubular aluminum that he fashioned into a crude ring. We also have several Wermacht belt buckles, a pair of Zeiss binoculars that he took off a dead German officer in a pillbox they knocked out. Dad sent home two Mausers and two Lugers, one of which was a long barreled artillery model with the adjustable sights. Sadly, the Lugers were sold after the war because he needed money. My brother still has one of the Mausers, and the other one was sporterized and given to a friend of the family. He also brought home a Czech Model 27 pistol which is long gone too.

Other than that we have a lot of photos. Dad was wounded in combat, shot in the azz when he dived into a foxhole as the airfield he had recently captured was straffed by a Me109. After recovery, he was given a "cushy" job driving a war photographer around and we ended up with a whole box full of photos. All kinds of war dammage, POW's, high ranking officer's on touring parades, etc. Among my favorite photos out of that stuff were those of knocked out armour, bot Allied and Axis, and a photo of one of the big Nazi rail guns with two G.I.'s laying in the muzzle on top of each other with room to spare. WE have lots of "littles" as we call them. German and Italian battle ribbons and patches, lots of little "personal" odds and ends that were taken off prisoners, etc.