Now I've seen everything...

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_girthicus_@reddit

“Owner’s Secret Collection”. Keep it a secret cause nobody wants a mosin that bad.

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Academic_Pay_5172@reddit

Somebody at r/guns was just asking if $700 hundred was too much for a “battlefield pickup” mosin. Somebody out there is gonna buy it

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Howboutit85@reddit

I bought one of these in 2007 at big 5 for $95.

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mvrck-23@reddit

This person is out of his mind… pass the dutchie to the left hand side…

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Provia100F@reddit

Sniper

Uh, yeah, maybe if your target is the broadside of an aircraft carrier

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Goodspeed137@reddit

Think your problem is you’re using machine gun ammo. Get match grade stuff and you’ll have some very nice groups.

Granted a few boxes of that these days will cost you more than you originally paid for the rifle, but that’s a different topic.

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Goodspeed137@reddit

What kind of Mosin do you shoot? I take mine out to 400yds with irons. Would go further but I can’t see the target any more without a scope.

I agree about the thing being way overpriced but if you have those issues, you need a new barrel.

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ShireHorseRider@reddit

Off topic-ish…. What’s the deal with ammo for these? I don’t own one so I’m not in the loop.

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Goodspeed137@reddit

Its harder to get now since we banned Russian ammo imports but still easily available. Match grade ammo will cost you $1.5/round. If you want machine gun ammo it’ll be 60-80C/round.

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In general the history of obsolete military weapons and ammunition has been very cheap, a very good value for such an obsolete war weapon. At one time you could get these rifles at $100 each all day long at a gun show. Surplus ammunition was really cheap as well as millions of rifles were made and hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition was made. Governments moved on to different rifles and different calibers so a lot of these were just gathering dust. You're not going to win a war if you're not efficient. Eventually I picked up two rifles at about $270 each. I picked up a can of 440 rounds of 7.62x54R for $125. Laws were passed to limit imports so this is driven up the prices of the firearms and ammunition. A lot of the surplus ammunition is gone. We are left with high priced mosins and very high priced factory ammunition.

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kylethesnail@reddit

Here in Canada we also had a sucker who bought a James River Armory refurbished M1 for 8.5k

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skankslayer69@reddit

I bought one of these for $300 with a tin of 7.62x54r 5 years ago

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

I wish! 54R is expensive now and non-corrosive ammo is outrageous here

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DaddyJ90@reddit

Jesus these were made in the 1800’s? Is this an old model (new to this stuff)?

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

Yes, the rifle design was released in 1891. This example was made in 1944

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Beneficial-Pop9072@reddit

Canada?

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

Yes

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Pox_Americana@reddit

I regret not getting a bent-bolt with the PU scope from Big 5 before they went under, but for that? You can have 3-4 good condition rifles from the era, the accessories, and some ammo to boot.

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Ineeboopiks@reddit

Holy fuck just get a garand or k98

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Able_Twist_2100@reddit

An M1C or M1D is going to cost a little bit more.

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Ineeboopiks@reddit

had to google...they look pretty sweet

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

Fr 💯

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thatgymdude@reddit

I remember when these were $90 at Big 5 and a hex bolt was around $100, its insane people will pay these dumb prices for them. The whole point of the moist nugget is that it is a cheap garbage rod, and now people want you to pay m14 prices for them.

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Sicarius4@reddit

Personally, I wouldn’t pay a penny more than $1k less than that.

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Additional_Box4092@reddit

Can anyone give me play by play instructions on how to get the Glock off of the back of a Glock 23 or could you put a good link to a video to show me how to take it off and put it on my switch isn't switching and I need to figure it out it's legal I am FFL believe me

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JimMarch@reddit

You haven't seen everything...

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/03/03/maurice-frankenruger-magazine-fed-revolver/

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

😐 now I can't unsee it lol

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Big_Sector_3590@reddit

It's "secret".

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

🤫

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wijeepguy@reddit

I sold one of those for $250 awhile back lol

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C_IsForCookie@reddit

Can you still get them for that price? I was looking a few months ago and they were all more. I feel like $250 is bro pricing but I’d love one of these.

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wijeepguy@reddit

If you go to the right auction you can buy them for less honestly. I had no use for it and armslist sucks now so I just launched it.

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NormanMilesPA@reddit

Are you talking online auction or in person? If online, mind sharing which ones you like?

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wijeepguy@reddit

I’m a big fan of proxibid.com

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NormanMilesPA@reddit

Thank you, I appreciate it.

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hobozombie@reddit

I feel like an old man in that I can remember back around '07 when you would see stacks of them at gun shows for $80 apiece.

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phillthy_god@reddit

I actually just bought one from a pawn shop lol for 330 out the door

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GeorgiaNinja94@reddit

There’s a local (sort of, it’s a couple counties away) gun shop that has two Mosins for $800 each.

Yes, the owner is one of those “I know what I got” types. He also has a safari hunting trip business in there.

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anothercarguy@reddit

Funny how safari enthusiast and high prices go hand in hand

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QuinceDaPence@reddit

I think I $170 for my 1921 Ishevsk ex-dragoon hex-reciever govered in rust and general filth.

But I've had pretty good luck with rust removal on guns, so I took a chance on it. It cleaned up decent. There's a little pitting near the muzzle but everything else turned out pretty good.

Still haven't had a chance to shoot it unfortunately.

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TheGreatTesticle@reddit

Should've kept it secret for a while so the value could've appreciated.

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wijeepguy@reddit

It happens

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MurkyChildhood2571@reddit

That's around 905 US dollars for us

On gunbroker, you can buy a mosin for 450 that looks the exact same

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

I bought one last tear for 700 and even that hurt to pay out of pocket but I wanted a clean example. I'm sure our Canadian government will ban these next saying that they are "assault weapons of war"

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MurkyChildhood2571@reddit

Ironicly, my local state has harder laws than Canada

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

Fingers crossed!

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Gwmblr@reddit

Not the garbage rod ;-;

Fuck, times are rough. Me and my buddy spent more on ammo then we did the Mosin when we got one in 19'.

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PlumbgodBillionaire@reddit

Not the 1300 dollar garbage rod 🤣

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bolunez@reddit

Kicking myself for not buying a truckload of these when they were selling them for $65.

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High_Anxiety_1984@reddit

Me room. They were like $180 when I bought mine. I had friends that bought a few when they were $90.

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nothankyou821@reddit

Got mine for $90 at the gun show about 12 years ago.

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High_Anxiety_1984@reddit

That sounds about right👍 That would be about the time the friend I had bought what seemed like a mosin for everyone in his family. Lol

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You_Just_Hate_Truth@reddit

I take offense, my mosin is insanely accurate, almost as insane as this asking price.

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PlumbgodBillionaire@reddit

I bet my 300 dollar 30-06 could give it a run for its money lmao

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You_Just_Hate_Truth@reddit

Well my Mosin cost less than half that!

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

1300 dollar billy-club lol

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bluesbynumber@reddit

Sheesh, I feel old saying this but my first Mosin cost me about $70 and came with a spam can of ammo. That was in 2009. What happened that these went up so much in cost?

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HeroOfStorms@reddit

For one, the posting in the picture is way above market value, but the demand(and therefore the price) for all surplus firearms skyrocketed around the beginning of Covid. Mosins can still be among the cheaper surplus rifles out there, I bought mine in 2021 for about $330, but all milsurp firearms are up there in price compared to a decade or more ago.

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Provia100F@reddit

You can still get milsurp below the $200 price point

British Lee-Enfields, Italian Carcanos, and some other assorted WWI long guns are still $200 or below.

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HeroOfStorms@reddit

Where are you finding Enfields sub-$200? I haven't seen a functioning Enfield that low in years, $350-$400 sure but $200? Only time I see them that low is when they're missing a bolt or some other critical part is broken.

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UpstairsBet5179@reddit (OP)

I bought a butchered (sporterized) no1 mk3 smle* for 450 out the door last month. The lowest I've seen is on gunpost for 300. So even those days are behind us sadly.

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Provia100F@reddit

Well that's the catch, they're missing the bolt, but bolts are only like $30 or $40 online anyways.

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EndSmugnorance@reddit

I remember 20 years ago these were $99 each.

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DestroyedBTR82A@reddit

Man not even 20 years ago, I got a pair of mosins for $79 a piece at Big 5 in 2012. That’s the year the world truly ended as far as I’m concerned.

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b1gchris@reddit

Same here.

I know I've mentioned it before in different threads, my first gun was a $100 (before tax/fee) Mosin at a Big 5 in southern CA ten years ago. Insane to think about now.

If I remember correctly, Nagant revolvers also seemed to be priced from $150-300 on GB back then too, I wanted that as my first handgun but never got one, oh well. I'm not paying $500+ for one now or ever.

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jameson71@reddit

The Mayans were right

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JeffNasty@reddit

Check out the Mosin sub, dudes are happy to pay 600 for them. It's crazy.

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PyroZach@reddit

I was going to say this is one of my getting old moments. I remember friends picking them up just because they were dirt cheap rifles. And I would go to gun shows with my dad and see them for like $75 in big surplus bins.

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Gunner4201@reddit

I got one and I'll give it to you for 1300 gift wrapped with bow on it and a box of ammunition.

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CoreMillenial@reddit

Bruh, that's "nice Mannlicher Schöenauer" money. That garbage rod can go and get bent.

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Armedfist@reddit

I paid taxes and shipped for one of those for $180 around 2007 or 2008

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coldafsteel@reddit

Depends on its markings and pedigree.

in this case, bent bolt + bayonet = pass

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Sorimatsu@reddit

Bent bolt does not always mean bubbafucked though

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zombie_girraffe@reddit

Yeah, It's a mosin so there's a good chance the handle bent when someone was pounding it with a hammer or a rock or something to try to get the action closed.

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coldafsteel@reddit

I agree; I have an original sniper. But you wouldn't see a bayonet with a sniper.

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Crashing_Machines@reddit

Yeah I got my original sniper with a bent bolt for $150 from Samco back around 2015.

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Sorimatsu@reddit

With how cheap they are I can see the guy throwing one in with it because he can, though.

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coldafsteel@reddit

On a $1,200 rifle? No way. For a $500 gun, maybe.

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6ought6@reddit

Could be a rommy, could be a pu, could be finn, lots of reasons for bent bolts that aren't bubba

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ThePretzul@reddit

Yes, and none of the bent bolts that are worth anything more than the trash pile had a bayonet.

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socalnonsage@reddit

Maybe/maybe not. It's a Tula and it's a 1944 mgf so it not out of the realm of possibilities of being a true PU sniper but you're right about the markings - this would need to be confirmed.

https://www.m9130.info/pu-snipers

https://www.igun.cz/

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DestroyedBTR82A@reddit

This is what 30 years of injecting cosmoline between your toes gets you, kids.

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Jombes_Industries@reddit

Do I want a rack grade M1 Garand, a perfect K31, or a gloss refinished garbage rod?

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hitokiriknight@reddit

The value can only go up since they use it at the Russian front still

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boostedb1mmer@reddit

I wouldn't pay $130 for a Mosin lol

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GamesFranco2819@reddit

Would need to determine if authentic PU or a put-together example before you could really comment on the price.

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That_Is_My_Band_Name@reddit

Even if it was an authentic ex-PU, without the scope to go with it, It would still not be worth that price.

But he definitely knows what he's got!

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GamesFranco2819@reddit

Honestly, no idea what a correct one sans scope would go for in Canada. However if it is correct, that at least closes the gap from "Fuck that's over priced" to "Eh, maybe"

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