Somebody pinch me. | TheaterFire

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Daritari@reddit

Apparently, I'm sitting on a gold mine for the three crates I bought years ago...

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Observed-observer@reddit

Early 00's I worked at Gander Mtn. They had racks of these for under $100.

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XgUNp44@reddit

Yep. My dad almost bought assorted crates. Either moist nuggets or sks’s. They also had crates of PU sniper for around $200-$250 a rifle. Those things are $2,000 all day now.

I just sold a fake one (I clarified in the listing it was assembled by the importer with real parts) and someone still bought it for $2,600.

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m4verick03@reddit

Got mine at cabelas around 2011 for that.

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XJPerk012@reddit

I’ve got an original Nugget from 1945 produced in the Izhevsk Plant!

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Emergency_Fan_7800@reddit

Remember all those guys buying crates of these, for $100 per rifle? Yeah, I wasn’t one of them…… 😢

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SexIsBetterOutdoors@reddit

Three for $99 dollars from Century with cracked stocks. All but one had simple cracks in the hand guard. The one exception had been repaired with framing nails.

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alwaus@reddit

They were $69 from century in near mint at one point.

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spicyfartsquirrel@reddit

I remember when I could have gotten a couple crates of 8 for like $250-$300. Passing those up and not getting more canik stingrays when they first hit the market is two things I regret

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I bought a 91/30 in like 2009 for $150 and that was considered expensive at the time for them. It was cleaned of cosmoline, matching parts, not counterbored, shot straight, and didn’t have sticky bolt. Was just missing the bayonet.

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TheRealAWiseman@reddit

I bought one in 2009 for 59.99 and it came with bayonet, cleaning kit stripper clips, a little russian stripper clip man purse and 100 rounds of 54R.

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ObsidianOne@reddit

I think the going rate at the time was $100 at Big 5. Really wish I would have picked up an M44 and a Tok pistol.

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TheRealAWiseman@reddit

I have a Tok. It is very ehh.. the makarov on the other hand is superb and If you can get one cheap its worth having.

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ObsidianOne@reddit

I just have a thing for old Russian guns, not sure why. I have a Bulgarian Makatov, and I have even have a Nagant pistol.

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Emergency_Fan_7800@reddit

I have a beautiful Bulgarian Macarov, with near perfect blueing. I also have a very good Polish p-64 and a beautiful Star Super “B” again, with gorgeous blueing.

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TheRealAWiseman@reddit

Im with you man. Everyone has a bunch of ARs. I have an AK for every day of the week.

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ObsidianOne@reddit

I really wish I would have picked up a Saiga before that went the way of the Dodo too lol

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YaKillinMeSmallz@reddit

You can still find sub-$100 nuggets on Gunbroker, you just gotta be patient.

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ReactionAble7945@reddit

Supply and demand.

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Affectionate-Meet192@reddit

Bet everyone who destroyed theirs for fun in the 2010s are crying.

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kiakosan@reddit

I remember buying an all matching one at a gun show with a spam can for $250 and feeling like I got ripped off. Now I wish I bought 2

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HeughJanus@reddit

milsurp deals are a thing of the past. unless you spend every day scouring gunbroker or pawn shops for someone who isnt an iknowwutigawt its better to just buy a $400 psa ar15 and call it a day.

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Milly1974@reddit

Maybe I should trade my M44 for a PSA AR-15.

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Carbon_Glock@reddit

20 years from now: "Man I regret not buy a PSA ar when they were $400 and ammo was .38c a round."

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sirbassist83@reddit

I fear that will be 5-10 years, not 20

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EugeneNicoNicoNii@reddit

I don't want to sound paranoid but I fear one day even PSA will spike in price, things really aren't looking nice after all

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DrBadGuy1073@reddit

At that point learn to be a machinist and spend your PSA monies on tooling

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ElGranLechero@reddit

Support your local 3d printer

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robinson217@reddit

1943 was peak war production. The actions will look like they were sand cast and hand filed and stamped. Stock will look like it made out of wood as smooth as corn stalks.

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juggarjew@reddit

I remember buying one of these for about $100 at a local gun store in 2013. And I bought a spam can of ammo for less than that too, I want to say it was like $89.

It was a great value for me being a college kid making $10.25 an hour working part time at Lowes. I Wish I kept the gun but I traded and got better stuff as time went on. Didnt realize they'd freaking x 7 in value.... But I suppose thats the destiny of all military surplus eventually. Thats why im buying a CMP 1911 while they're still around, eventually those will be gone too and they'll all be $3000+ on gunbroker.....

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RaptorTraumaShears@reddit

I got mine for $400 and thought that was an arm and a leg. That was just two years ago.

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Significant_View_250@reddit

The two I have are mid WWII......If those rifles could talk - makes me wonder. Were they killing germans, stuck at some outpost or stuck in a warehouse - it would be interesting to know.

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Neutral_Chaoss@reddit

I saw an sks at a gun show this weekend for $700. One of my good friends in college bought one for about $100 in the early 2000's. I was with and wanted one but I had no money ( being a broke college student).

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Significant_View_250@reddit

I hear you - I think back to guns at garage sales that were dirt cheap but there I was with $20 in the bank and nothing but hot dogs and frozen pizzas to eat the rest of the month at school.

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Big_Bill23@reddit

Milsurp stock are drying up. That does seem a little high, even given that.

I bought on in the '90s at a gun show (1943 vintage) for under $80. About the same time, I got a Chinese SKS (Norinco) for about the same price.

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Significant_View_250@reddit

can you imagine the run there would be on SKS's for $ 80.....damn I would buy like a hundred - lol

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Bloodroke@reddit

I bought a cut down mosin from someone last year for $80 and then proceeded to dump hundreds of dollars in cerakote, chassis, scope, bipod, and a trigger for it to make it the ugliest, but most fun mosin.

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Neutral_Chaoss@reddit

Omg! I want to see this!

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Bloodroke@reddit

I made a new post for it in this subreddit, check it out!

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Cryptic1911@reddit

everything's gone up. I got a crate of all hex receiver good condition / unfired for $150 ea

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foolstarot65@reddit

Damn, I bought mine basically identical to those for $275 like 7 years ago

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m4verick03@reddit

I paid 99 plus tax for mine. Now I’m tempted to sell it for a tidy profit. My plan for it never came together anyway.

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MadMints@reddit

J&G has been trying to sell those 91/30s at those ridiculous prices for years, just because that's what they're asking doesnt mean that's what they'll get

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clanga-man@reddit

Even over here in Australia back in the day these were cheap as dirt. The 80s-90s saw a massive rise of imports of Soviet, Finnish, East Euro, and Chinese guns; the Mosin and its many variants were no exception. My uncle once said that there were rifles being sold for as little as $90 (AUD) at gun shops in the 80s, and the ammo availability was spam tin galore, $20 for two tins!

Due to the Mosin being bolt action and less restricted, the vast majority of these guns were thankfully saved from the 1996 NFA, the band-saw and the shredders. Even in the 2000s-early 2010s, these were still relatively cheap at 200-500 a pop.

However in recent years, and the fact we suffer from the same boomer types, we have dumb cunts over here who will try to scalp you at $3000 for a M44 with a cracked stock, the finish worn off, and a barrel that’s been worn so smooth, you’d swear that they made smaller shotgun rounds than .410 gauge.

It’s an epidemic of scalping and stupidity, don’t trust em. These boomer sellers claim to know what they got, and we all know what they really got is this; fucking dementia.

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Cdwollan@reddit

The fact that people were in denial about milsurp drying up is laughable now...

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heroinebob90@reddit

Hell nah. They used to be like $120.

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Physical_Tension_846@reddit

I got one for $75. Picked it out of the crate myself. Took forever to get the cosmoline out though lol

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PdoffAmericanPatriot@reddit

I bought one in 2000 for $100!

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letsee7654321@reddit

CCCP made extra 400

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Soggy_Temporary4535@reddit

Imagine going back 30 years and telling yourself that you'll be paying $800 for a mosin nagant in the future. You would probably slap yourself!

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spicyfartsquirrel@reddit

Only negant worth that much was the Springfield made ones from circa 1916-1918. The czar contracted Springfield to make them, and when the czar fell the contract was so large it had the potential to ruin Springfield. So us government picked up the contract for them both original round and think had some in other calibers. Of my memory serves me correct they used them for consulate security details in europe.

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Significant_View_250@reddit

No shit, there I was in the McKinney TX Cheaper than dirt store and they got mulitiple crates in,,,,,how much says I ? $ 99 each says they - I says give me one,,,,wife says make it 2.......... I should have bought crates upon crates - ugh

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AlfalfaConstant431@reddit (OP)

Same.

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BeerJedi-1269@reddit

Got my (idk the model, short, with fold out bayonette) for $75 at Dunhams ... very nice condition

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Quadrenaro@reddit

What is a good price for a 43 Mosin? Im going to liquidate some of my stock to cover some old debts, and I have alot of doubles for milsurp rifles I am comfortable saying bye to.

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matrixsensei@reddit

I bought mine off my stepbrother for 220 I think it was? Highway robbery in today’s economy

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Diablo_Saint@reddit

What a fucking joke the times and this country have become. Fucking clown world...

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True_Butterscotch940@reddit

No reason to get a Mosin when you can get an SKS for less -- the latter will appreciate more.

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Desertman123@reddit

when i was 12, dicks sporting goods paid me $50 to take a crate of these and a spam can

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Sweaty_Pianist8484@reddit

Expensive shit sticks

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sixseatwonder@reddit

Got my M38 in 2017 at a gun show for $350

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GunsAndWrenches2@reddit

I used to drive up to J&G to pick through $79 91/30's... Now there's this...

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Odd-Solid-5135@reddit

$68 in the early 00s at a gun show. Spent 15 and never even burned thru all the ammo crates that came in the deal. Kicking myself for selling it now.

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Illustrious-Fact1014@reddit

Damn. I bought my Russian made one for $150 in great shape 15 years ago. I had no idea they were this expensive now.

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Routine_Guitar8027@reddit

Until more crates are found in the former Soviet bloc states

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Significant_View_250@reddit

I don't know my man, when greed sets in and they are used to getting higher prices, it'll never go back. It's.kimd of sad, I go to GB and it seems as if folks just want to gouge you, not just make a fair profit.....but hey I'm a couple of drinks in = cynical.......lol

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