Unrealistic expectations

"Collectors Forum" - All Mosin Nagant are discussed here. Also the Russian and "Finnish capture" SVT38 and SVT40. This is an excellent place for new Mosin owners to ask questions. We have some of the best experts here looking forward to your questions. If you post a Mosin sniper rifle here, we may or may not move it to the sniper forum.

Preservation forum, please no altered military surplus rifles or discussions on altering in this forum. No sportsters. Please read the rules at the top of each forum
User avatar
Rongo
Administrator
Administrator
Posts: 6570
Joined: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:39 pm
Location: Variable in my specific position of physical space

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by Rongo »

Junk Yard Dog wrote:People are selling because the prices are up, but they are selling their least milsurps first.
I'm not buying right now mainly for that reason. I feel strange things coming to the gun market very soon, things we haven't experienced for a long time and some that will be new to everyone.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it". Mark Twain

"Dang that entropy"
User avatar
Junk Yard Dog
Owner/Founder
Owner/Founder
Posts: 48794
Joined: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:54 pm
Location: New York

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by Junk Yard Dog »

That would be the milsurp market of the 1970's Ron, both in price and availability, both sucked during the 70's after GCA68 shut off the milsurp tap. Lets hope disco, and glitter balls don't come back with it.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
User avatar
7x57
Posts: 460
Joined: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:52 am

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by 7x57 »

Junk Yard Dog wrote:... Lets hope disco, and glitter balls don't come back with it.
As long as the girls and the physical condition will come back with it, too - no problem at all :twisted:
1910 Arg. Mauser M1909 (long rifle)
1912 Braz. Mauser M1908 (long rifle)
1915 & 1943 Swed. Mauser M96
1934 Persian Mauser M1309
Two 1935 Braz. Mauser M1935 (short rifle)
1937 Braz. Mauser M1935 (long rifle)
1943 Finnish M39 (Sk.Y.)
1943 Izhevsk M1891/30 w. folding bay.
1943 Swiss K31
1947 Dutch "Wilhelmina" Mauser carbine
~1950 Hung. Lámpagyár Kispuska 48M (.22lr cadet rifle)
Two 1952 Hung. 48M
1955 British No. 4 Mk. 2
1968 Finnish M39
1977 6" Korth .357 Magnum
2012 H&K USP Expert .45 ACP
2016 H&K MR308 A3
2016 STEYR AUG Z
User avatar
Junk Yard Dog
Owner/Founder
Owner/Founder
Posts: 48794
Joined: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:54 pm
Location: New York

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by Junk Yard Dog »

7x57 wrote:
Junk Yard Dog wrote:... Lets hope disco, and glitter balls don't come back with it.
As long as the girls and the physical condition will come back with it, too - no problem at all :twisted:
True enough, physical infirmities eliminated, for that I would put up with disco again.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
User avatar
Fledge
Posts: 985
Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:18 am
Location: Southeast Wisconsin

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by Fledge »

Hhmmm I forget what the original post was about. The thread is titled unrealistic expectations after all :D
Maine 20th
Posts: 288
Joined: Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:56 pm

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by Maine 20th »

Are Molots coming back?
User avatar
Junk Yard Dog
Owner/Founder
Owner/Founder
Posts: 48794
Joined: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:54 pm
Location: New York

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by Junk Yard Dog »

Probably not, the Russians are still not happy with the current administration, we will have to wait and see, just don't expect them to sell cheap if they do come back.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
User avatar
ParrotHead
Posts: 268
Joined: Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:35 pm
Location: Northern Ky.

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by ParrotHead »

It's apparent that a deal (or even a normal price) on GB is getting to be fewer and far between. Looking at the prices people are asking for
common refurbs, they are just totally ridiculous. Especially when you have already bid up to what you know should be a market price for an item and the reserve has not even been met. Forget that.

1942 VKT M39 [1905]
1944 Tikka 91/30 [1915]
1940 Tikka M91 [1897]
1940 Tula [SA] 91/30
1935 Tula 91/30
1937 Tula 91/30
1928 5 line ex-Dragoon
1939 Izhevsk 91/30
1942 Izhevsk 91/30
1944 Izhevsk M44
Eddystone M1917 Enfield
1943 Shirley Enfield No 4 MK 1
1939 ERMA K98k
1944 Swiss K-31
1939 M1895 Nagant
CZ82

Image
User avatar
steelbuttplate
Posts: 3938
Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2013 2:24 pm
Location: Foxhole in the Smoky Mtns. N.C.

Re: Unrealistic expectations

Post by steelbuttplate »

:spam2: , better than groundhog, mud turtle, opossum, all the stuff they eat on nakid and afraid. C-rats, when they came in a green can, said "beef, turkey, pork" on the can? It was :spam2: . I talked to one o them Balkan fellers the other day, he said his family might have scrubbed the letters off a Mosin or two. Said they was mad when they done it, probably wouldn't do it today them being worth $300 and all :bs.gif:
" There are two kinds of people, the good people and the ones that aggravate the hell out of the good people"
Post Reply