Mosins going sky high in price

[Grinder]

This was taken at Chilliwack BC Canadian Tire. Are they really getting this rare?

[steelbuttplate]

Not that rare, just that popular. I think most new shooters want one. They can still be had here for $400-$500.

[tomaustin]

they sell them in a tire store..???

where do you buy the ammo...? in a pharmacy..?

[Grinder]

Ammo is on the bottom shelf of the tire store

[Junk Yard Dog]

Hmm.....at 629 if I dumped all the special Mosins out of my crate and filled it with basic refurb 91/30's it would be $12,580.00 plus $500 for the empty crate? Suddenly I love math.

[SA1911a1]

Hmm.....at 629 if I dumped all the special Mosins out of my crate and filled it with basic refurb 91/30's it would be $12,580.00 plus $500 for the empty crate? Suddenly I love math.

I doesn't seem like that long ago when I thought a thousand bucks for an unmolested crate full of the rifles was too much.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Hmm.....at 629 if I dumped all the special Mosins out of my crate and filled it with basic refurb 91/30's it would be $12,580.00 plus $500 for the empty crate? Suddenly I love math.

I doesn't seem like that long ago when I thought a thousand bucks for an unmolested crate full of the rifles was too much.

Just think of what it would be with all the special Mosins left inside. Finn built unissued 91/30, original Dragoon rifle, multiple SA marked rifles, SCW rifle, and so on. $$$

[SA1911a1]

The thing that seems interesting to me is that the '42 Izhevsk has risen in price faster (as a percentage) than the M-39.

[racerguy00]

Never imagined watching wartime date refurb 91/30s selling locally to me for over $500 but they are.

[fchaus]

Makes me feel better and better about my woodshop cache I got from a freinds fathers estate. I managed to pick up 10 mostly complete 91/30's for $600. Some are missing a few things, a few front sights, a few trigger springs or mag latch spring thingys, you get the idea. Once I get moved going through them with a good cleaning is first order.

[djbuck1]

Like many here, I could make a tidy sum, but I don’t want to sell.

[SA1911a1]

I is not just the Mosins that have gone up. I was looking at Turkish M- 1938 Mausers. Just back from looking on Gunbroker, the old Mausers that no one wanted are going at above $400.00. It just doesn't seem to me that it was too long ago you could get them for $75.00 with two free ammo bandoliers thrown in. At that time the 8mm 100 rd. cloth bandoliers were going for two bucks each.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Wasn't so long ago I could get my usual sandwich at the deli for $9, that was last week, this week it's $12 and there seems to be less inside it. Next week it will be a wish sandwich.

You mean the 70 round Turk 8mm bandoleer's Steve? I just found one behind the couch, I bought over ten thousand rounds of that stuff back when I could get it at 2.3 cents a round in bulk. Still got some left.

[SA1911a1]

Wasn't so long ago I could get my usual sandwich at the deli for $9, that was last week, this week it's $12 and there seems to be less inside it. Next week it will be a wish sandwich.

You mean the 70 round Turk 8mm bandoleer's Steve? I just found one behind the couch, I bought over ten thousand rounds of that stuff back when I could get it at 2.3 cents a round in bulk. Still got some left.

They probably were 70 rounds, Jim. I was going by memory, thinking that they were 10 slots with two clips each, but I will accept 70 as the correct number. The inflation is showing up in fast food too. Two Hardie's small hamburgers and two small sodas were just short of ten bucks today. When I was in high school, I worked evenings at Burger King, a Whopper, fry and large drink was 96 cents, including tax. Of course, when I was in High School, Moses had not come down with the tablets yet.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I packed to big gray US Navy rocket box's full of the bandoleers, then tried to move the box's with 2500 rounds in each. I had to involve the forklift, might have been close to 2700 rounds, that was almost 20 years ago, they remain sealed up today. Looked behind the couch again and found I had stashed a spam can back there, 40's date Soviet on the Mosin clips. I knew I had one, but couldn't recall what I did with it. That's probably a few hundred bucks now, no idea what I paid but it wasn't that much. I remember calling up a page of surplus ammo for sale and debating if I wanted to shoot Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Soviet, Albanian, Yugo, and so on this week, and then what vintage, light or heavy ball, brass case or steel. Maybe order five cases and save some money on the volume discount. Back then I always bought in case lots, last two cases of Soviet 54r I still have stashed saved for nostalgic reasons or until someone walks in here with an impressive offer for them as I am not married to any of this crap.

[SA1911a1]

I have shot up a lot of my 7.62 x 54. I have one unopened case, a couple of various cans, and a few boxes on the ready shelf. I have not been shooting on a regular basis lately as it is beginning to feel like work. I will not run out of Mosin ammo before I run out of air.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I shoot my .22's more than anything else these days. Spent decades shooting most every .30 in my collection, countless tens of thousands of rounds when it was cheap enough to do so. Been there, done that, and it does become like work after awhile. After cleaning the same rifles a thousand times I am content to put them on the inactive pile. My defensive weapons get range time now, but that's about it other than the .22's, I have a lot of .22's

[Teleoceras]

Grinder:

That makes me real glad I got my Mosins when I did!

[SA1911a1]

Grinder:

That makes me real glad I got my Mosins when I did!

That is a heck of a nice list of rifles. I wonder though, as a percentage, have the Finns done as good as the '42 Izhevsk 91/30?

[Teleoceras]

Grinder:

That makes me real glad I got my Mosins when I did!

That is a heck of a nice list of rifles. I wonder though, as a percentage, have the Finns done as good as the '42 Izhevsk 91/30?

Considering the prices I've seen for M39's, M28's, M28/30's etc, recently. Considering I got my first M39 for under $300, I would say pretty much yeah!