![]() ![]() ![]() There are plenty of cartridges from the early 20th century that have very similar dimensions and might potentially chamber in the wrong rifle. Learn if you can find or make ammo form other cartridges and how to do that safely. Take time to learn the history of it, learn it’s quirks or potentially dangerous issues you may run into. There is extensive information on a huge variety of military firearms on from both of these sources and the information is well researched and reliable. So if your getting into collecting surplus rifles now, what should you do, where should you look and what should you buy?įirst things first is do some research on what you want to buy, there are a huge amount of online sources but my picks would and C&Arsenal, both have excellent websites and extensive YouTube channels. The fore mentioned terror attack and following bans on semiautomatic and various other firearms has had pushed a lot of collectors from semiautomatic firearms to milsurp bolt actions, this has seen the price of your average SMLE or Mauser skyrocket in price as the demand for these classic firearms has gone up significantly in the years following the ban. Anyhow, this rifle started a long lasting obsession with surplussed military firearms that carries on to this day even with all the precision long range stuff I do. This rifle along with many others was crushed by NZ Police as required by the law change in 2019. ![]() At the time they were legal to own on an A Cat license and were available in large numbers for around $300 NZD, these had the magazines limited to seven rounds and the bayonets were removed to stop them being categorised as a Military Style Semiautomatic and thus requiring an E category endorsement on your license. The first firearm I bought after I got my New Zealand firearms license was a Chinese SKS made by Norinco. ![]()
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