So I asked @Robert if he would make a surplus sub forum so we could talk about surplus guns as I have quite a number of them, this also includes like Historic firearms like WW1 Guns etc so Military Surplus, Police Surplus, whatever you got! 
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I had this Winchester P17 for a good number of years, recently gave it to a grandson when he bought his first house, he has a passion for the WWI stuff and has already got all the kit for it rounded up so he can make a display. He would always pick that rifle to shoot as a youngster, the history was worth the recoil for him.
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My M14 (Yes it’s a polytech)
My YouTube Famous M1 Garand (Check out on YouTube - Mark Novak’s Garand Headspacing Video i’m in it and so is this Rifle.)
My M1 Carbine (I bought this as a bubba special and fixed it.)
My Type 53/M44 Mosin.
My Carcano (Yes it’s not pretty, but it doesn’t shoot great either.)
My Turkish Mauser
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Finnish M-39 (Sako barrel). Small buck & a doe on two consecutice days. I also have a Russian M91/30, a British No 4 Mk 1/2 and a US .30 Krag. Also my Grandpa’s WWI service 1911.
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Yeah I’ve got a Krag too.
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I might have a couple. 
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Oh definitely as most FALs are built off of surplus parts kits, there are some new production or Imbel made ones, but I’d definitely count any FAL or L1A1 as a surplus rifle even if they were built from parts kits.
That’s my L1A1 FAL, if you recognize the workbench, you know who my gunsmith is. 
Bonus points if you have the 30 round magazines like I do. 
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Is that a Valmet 76? Wanted one badly some years ago.
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Yes
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sold the last of the milsurp a few years ago. Now all I have is the Garand which will never be sold.
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Yeah i’m never selling my Garand either.
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S&W 10-7 snubby, surplus from some overseas police department. It’s one of those J&G had sans barrels, a few years ago.
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That’s a neat surplus carry piece. The “sans barrels” J&G origin makes it even more club-gun than catalog queen.
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I actually bought two of them. Bought a barrel from Numrich and installed it on this one, and played around with various cheap British surplus cut-down barrels on the other one. Eventually just bought a regular 4" pencil barrel and made it a 4" round butt, which I had always wanted. I love Model 10s in general.
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That’s the right way to do it. Building the 4" round butt from parts instead of hunting down a factory example is half the fun of these guns — you end up with exactly what you wanted and a story to go with it.
The British cut-down barrels are a fun rabbit hole. Some of those were rough, but they make great beater guns for the range.
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Yeah I enjoyed playing around with those. First one was 2-1/2 inches, then I got a 4" one (cut down from 5 or 6) and cut it to 3 inches. I left it like that for awhile, but eventually decided that I didn’t really like it any more than 4".
I don’t think I ever gave more than $15 for a British barrel. One really cool thing I discovered is that Model 10 parts are incredibly interchangeable. Pinned barrel, post-pinned, pre-10, even WWII era British lend-lease can usually be swapped.
Another thing I learned is that the British barrels are still the standard .357" groove diameter. I had always thought they were .362" or something since they were .38 S&W instead of Special.
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The British barrel groove diameter thing trips up a lot of people. Those .38 S&W guns were bored to .
357" to simplify production, so the only real difference is case length and rim — which is why the cut-down barrels work so cleanly on a .38 Special cylinder. That part interchangeability across pinned, post-pinned, and lend-lease guns is the real gift of the Model 10.
It’s why they’re still the cheapest way to build a shooter that’ll outlast you.
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