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What I liked even more was the match entry fee was $2.00
And we got 2 bandoleers of ball ammo free.
Until President Clinton screwed it up.

I got a Polish Mosin carbine for $100.00. Looks spanking new.

I had one from the CMP that a friend gifted to me. it was in rough shape but worked. I wanted to like it because my dad and my uncles carried them the the Pacific. I never could warm up to it tho, the M-14 version either. Heavy, clunky, distracting action. I traded it for an “Irish” Enfield No 4 Mk2. I really like Enfields.

a few years ago, a certain number of savage enfields surfaced, produced here for the brits circa 1943 or thereabouts. by then they had enough and didn't need them, never went overseas, went into storage. Basically brand new rifles. They were pretty sweet.
mostly, i looked down on enfields, until i reconized my ignorance, and how well they were actually designed.
it's kind of like the garand, you usually see the used up ones, but not those in new condition.
I have a friend that shoot competition in bavaria, he was/is a sniper in the german military.
his comment to me was they prefered an enfield for competition over a mauser they shot better.
a sniper enfield is floating around, i know where it is. original scope matched to rifle, and finished
by Holland and Holland. Probably the best sniper rifle of wwII.

at one time there was a company in florida selling m38 and m44 moisin's, the carbine versions for about 50bucks or so.
they were in wrapping paper tied with string, reconditioned. I think they came out of soviet georgia. Allowed to be sold here
probably when we were trying to provide hard currency to the state of georgia.
One that i was stupid not to buy was a mauser, one of many that were stored in some salt mines in transylvania. That did have a certain
flavor to it.