What surplus is left out there?

[Oldtimer]

With so much being written about supplies drying up, I have been wondering what countries might still release stocks of weapons.  I don't know if India has sold off its surplus guns, nor has Pakistan.  I would guess  there should be a goodly supply of French hardware in northern Africa.  The central Asian republics might give up some more Russian weaponry, especially if the prices keep going up.  Anyone else got any ideas?

[Stan in SC]

It's hard to second guess what might show up.Example is the latest Enfields just when we thought they were all here.
I would hope somebody finds a bunch of GOOD .303 ammunition.
My money on the next "find" is Poland.

[Robert357]

Personally, I would like to get my hands on a 6.5mm Japanese surplus Arisaka rifle.  I am sure that there must be some Countries like Korea, China and/or some other Pacific rim nations that have some stored in warehouses.

If so, I hope that they work their way into the market.

[TomD]

Robert357,

I stumbled upon an Arisaka M38 a couple of years ago. My old neigbor's family was making him get rid of all of his guns as he was approaching 90 and starting to lose his mental faculties. In a lucid moment he brought over the Arisaka and asked if I wanted to buy it. He wanted it to go to someone who would appreciate it for what it was and use it. It was professionally sporterized and was reamed from 6.5x50 Jap to 6.5x55 Swede. It loved the old surplus swede ammo in the tan box, but that was not accepatable to hunt with as it was FMJ. It didn't like any factory ammo. Finally, I started to reload for it and now it shoots consistent 1" groups @ 100yds.

I keep it at the family ranch in TX and use it mainly as my Hog gun..its never let me down as long as I don't let it down. The last hog I took with it was 200lbs+ and it dropped in its tracks. I use 160gr SP bullets for the hogs, although I've used the 140gr as well.

[1911crazy]

Well I'm seeing a lot of war bring backs right now being turned in by the family at gun shops/pawn shops. There's more Jap rifles and garands than you can shake a stick at.  I think thats all were going to see because the European Union will make sure the surplus military sutff thats still there will see the scrap yard rather than arm us more over here. Since the more modern stuff is full auto and burst fire maybe we might see the meat cutters at Century arms change some of those over but i think its a slim chance.  So between the older collectors trading stuff in so it can be recycled to us and the war bring backs the future of collecting looks grim. It maybe time to jump off the C&R ship and go to the more modern stuff soon anyway we do still have choices even though the surplups are almost gone for good.  Lets face it the saying of OH LOOK WHAT WE JUST FOUND IN A WAREHOUSE IN EUROPE is only going to last for so long in my mind i could see them refinishing those mosins on the boat while sailing over here to sell them to us.  Maybe there will be a black market in Europe and some more surplups just may sneek out of Europe it will be called the "military surplus underground railroad"!!!!!!!!  Never know we just have to keep the faith.  Lets not forget when things dryup the price goes up too!!!!!!

You better buy what Cenyury, SOG and AIM is selling right now and were lucky we will still have guys like Empire Arms and Allens Armory to keep us going too when things dryup and it gets worse.                BigBill

There is 1,000 different mausers?  I don't think we will see them all its just too late. But you have a shot at collecting most of the mosins russian and finnish.   Goodluck!!!!!

BTW;  The gun shows here have slim pickins too.  Slim to none!!!