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kamakazi339 wrote:I wonder how long till places like J&G and classic start jacking mosin prices through the roof.....
After the plane was shot down there was a a small run on some of the popular calibers of Russian commercial ammo, mostly the Wolf stuff. Saw a lot of 7.62x39 sold. The price was heading below 20 cents a round and was at times for sale cheaper but it's back up about 22 or 23 cents a round and is still available. Mosin Nagants are available from a bunch of places and have been. I think because the prices are already up people are not running to buy them like in the past. AIM is selling Hex's for $149.95. They're worth that but I think people are hoping that prices will drop again. Plus it's a slow time of the year for firearms sales. People are outside doing other things so sales are in a bit of a slump as is normal for this time of year.
Look down the page here. http://gun-deals.com/deals/2039-mosin-n ... iver-rifle In 2008 they were $79.95 and I don't think people have forgotten that. Heck they were that price in Nov, 2011 for that matter but that was a Black Friday sale but were normally $89.95. I bought a bunch of them back then.
I always try to take the long view, and right now the cost of, say, an M91/30 refurb seems to be about as much as the market will bear. I concede that until importers start to see a constriction in their supply, it doesn't make business sense for them to price themselves all the way out of the market . . . unless they know that supplies are going to be very constricted in the long term and they opt to sit on what they have while waiting for prices to rise even more. I tend to discount that as business needs cash flow, now.
All I know for sure is what I see: prices continue to rise, and it is no longer possible to obtain every year or even specific years of M91/30s from local outlets in my area. Yes, you may luck into a hex receiver or other pre-war rifle now and then, but you can't walk into Cabela's and, over a relatively short period of time, build a collection with every year from 1923 to 1944 for just north of $100 each. Basically what you have are beat-up 1943 Izhevsks, and fewer of those. The local Gander Mountain is now completely out with no plans to acquire more.
Whether it's long term or not, the sanctions are a further constriction, and the Left will use any tool or tactic they can to choke off the supply of both weapons and ammunition. The fact that I already have a pretty extensive milsurp collection and a -- generous-- amount of ammo doesn't reduce my resentment of that one bit.
djbuck1 wrote:I always try to take the long view, and right now the cost of, say, an M91/30 refurb seems to be about as much as the market will bear. I concede that until importers start to see a constriction in their supply, it doesn't make business sense for them to price themselves all the way out of the market . . . unless they know that supplies are going to be very constricted in the long term and they opt to sit on what they have while waiting for prices to rise even more. I tend to discount that as business needs cash flow, now.
All I know for sure is what I see: prices continue to rise, and it is no longer possible to obtain every year or even specific years of M91/30s from local outlets in my area. Yes, you may luck into a hex receiver or other pre-war rifle now and then, but you can't walk into Cabela's and, over a relatively short period of time, build a collection with every year from 1923 to 1944 for just north of $100 each. Basically what you have are beat-up 1943 Izhevsks, and fewer of those. The local Gander Mountain is now completely out with no plans to acquire more.
Whether it's long term or not, the sanctions are a further constriction, and the Left will use any tool or tactic they can to choke off the supply of both weapons and ammunition. The fact that I already have a pretty extensive milsurp collection and a -- generous-- amount of ammo doesn't reduce my resentment of that one bit.
Amen to that. If I had a warehouse full I wouldn't be any more pissed off then I am now.
