As is my habit with forums, I'm only doing a welcome post after posting to several other threads first. My history with milsurp weapons goes back to an SMLE No. 5 Mk. 1 I bought out of a barrel in the basement of a local department store way back in my teens. It was $19.95, and I paid for it and wal...

My Garand was bought in the $310 (delivered!) days, brought by the postal carrier. It was all luck of the draw- one price, and you took pot luck, the first one out of the box or off the rack. I got very, very lucky, a like-new Springfield Armory October 1944 manufacture. I don't think it ever saw mu...

My SMLE No. 5 is marked "No 5 MK1 ROF (F)," which, I understand, signifies that it was manufactured at Fazakerly.