Been wanting one of these for a while now but seeing the $400-$500+ price tags on these make me extremely hesitant on buying. I remember seeing these in boxes for $100 many years ago. Is it even worth paying that?
Mosin Nagant
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Last one I bought a few years ago was in a box marked "Hunting Carbine" for $600. It is a 68 rebarrel with scope. One of these days I need to get it to the range.
I remember 91-30's for $90.
I remember 91-30's for $90.
When they were 79 bucks and a crate of ammo was half that, maybe.
They really are rude, crude rifles that were ridden hard and its 130 year old design isnt what most non collectors are used to. Paper plate groups are the norm and the rearsenelled rifles do not shoot to point of aim.
If you can find someone to let you fire a few mags through, do it to get it out of your system.
If you just want a quality milsurp in that 500 ish dollar price.range Id recommend a k31. Its a far more refined and accurate option.
They really are rude, crude rifles that were ridden hard and its 130 year old design isnt what most non collectors are used to. Paper plate groups are the norm and the rearsenelled rifles do not shoot to point of aim.
If you can find someone to let you fire a few mags through, do it to get it out of your system.
If you just want a quality milsurp in that 500 ish dollar price.range Id recommend a k31. Its a far more refined and accurate option.
Ditto this ditto. The K31 is a no-shit nice rifle with a unique action that can put up some genuinely respectable groups with the right ammo.Ditto on the K31.
By comparison, most Mosin Nagants are examples of war time all-hands-on-deck production, which means that quantity was the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd priorities. Quality, for the most part, was a happy accident when/if it occurred.
That said, when they were ~$100, they were something kinda fun to play with, even if accurizing them was ultimately like endeavoring to create the world's most fire resistant paper hat; an accomplishment to be sure, but still worthy of the question "Why?"
I have a M38 that I paid the grand sum of $85 OTD for awhile back. Saw a lot of use, as most of them did. Mine has a butt stock repair and the muzzle is counterbored due to the Russkies using steel cleaning rods which messed up the crown. Not a precision tool - but it will wake up the folks at the range when it touches off...especially if the benches are covered. I have been tempted to dump it since they have been selling lately for around $300. I also have an unissued Bulgarian Makarov I paid $130 for and I can't believe people are paying $500-700 for them.
Been wanting one of those Makarovs for a while now. Just current prices make me not want one.
I could swear that early 2020 still had Makarovs under $200. I think I paid $125 in 96. I thought it was high compared to a $99 SKS.
I love every single one of mine. and I have quite a few. I think every dude in my family has one that I bought and cleaned up and gave as a present. it take a good bit of work to get any decent accuracy out of the 91/30s. its fun as a hobby but at the prices they go for now!! hell no. the stuff people like to collect, like the fin m39 or the original 1891 or even the m44 carbine with the folding bayonet are still worth a decent amount but the prices i've seen 91-30s go for are insane.
Pretending the odd carbines dont exist, what are numbers matching 91 30s going for bout now?
last show i went to i saw a few 91/30's for 250 bucks. and those were not matching by any means. i saw more that looked ok for around 500. but to be honest all i saw was the price tag before my brain went nope and moved on. i paid 80 for my first 91/30 and never paid more than 110 for any 91/30. i think i gave 350 for my 1891. same for my m39. and i think 300 for my carbine.
no way i am paying those prices for a 91/30. unless its one of those sniper 91/30's. and those are kinda hard to find
I missed out on them at $400. I was considering a Mitchell's at $800 and was told the Mitchell's were assembled from surplus. I was in my local shop and saw a $600 price tag and thought "Who's gonna pay that for a Mosin?" Turns out I did. The box says Hunting Carbine.
I have several from back in the day, I would dig through the piles of them, and try to pick out ones with (what I thought at the time) were unusual markings. MO, DDR, SA marks, or Sestroryetsk mfg. and I was partial to the hex receivers.
I can remember when they sold for $39 and a 440rd tin of surplus ammo was $59.
The most I've ever paid (and most likely ever will pay unless the odd genuine PE/PEM turns up reasonable) for a MN is $350 for a PU sniper about 10 years ago.
I can also remember when you could buy 3 Norinco SKS's in cosmo still in the crate for about $100 or a bit less.
Back then you could also buy a Lee Enfield No.1 Mk. III at the Rose's department store in town for $29.95, or a No.4 Mk1or 1* for $49.95.
Back then I used to listen to people that were the age I am now talk about the prices they paid 25-30 years earlier.....
The most I've ever paid (and most likely ever will pay unless the odd genuine PE/PEM turns up reasonable) for a MN is $350 for a PU sniper about 10 years ago.
I can also remember when you could buy 3 Norinco SKS's in cosmo still in the crate for about $100 or a bit less.
Back then you could also buy a Lee Enfield No.1 Mk. III at the Rose's department store in town for $29.95, or a No.4 Mk1or 1* for $49.95.
Back then I used to listen to people that were the age I am now talk about the prices they paid 25-30 years earlier.....
Smell you bro.
Also those "RICH" old guys sucked at shooting in most all formats.
That said they had encyclopedias in there heads and knew how to shoot.
The smartest man just takes out his gun and shoots in all conditions all the time.
If you can get one for cheaps, it might be worth it to rebarrel it for 500S&W... run it as a single shot, or get an internal mag/box/follower 3D printed to have a functional magazine.
Close to the same rim size and max pressure...
Close to the same rim size and max pressure...
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