Waning interest in C&R's ?

[Nomad.2nd]

So, with the shortage of C&R firearms, would anyone be interested in original Japanese military rifles and pistol? I have several and would like to concentrate my focus on Enfields or other military rifles. Will post for sale if any interest.

Always at the right price.

 

[hunter5567]

The good ole days were about 10 years ago when you could get Swiss K31's and Yugo and Albanian SKS's for $109 from AIM and Mauser 98's for $100-125. Of course back in the 80's Chinese SKS's were $70-80 and Russian SKS's were $100 but the same money now is probably worth $360-$400 in today's money. You could also get Nagants for $50-60 and Swedish Mausers for $100.

 

[my-rifle]

The good ole days were about 10 years ago when you could get Swiss K31's and Yugo and Albanian SKS's for $109 from AIM and Mauser 98's for $100-125. Of course back in the 80's Chinese SKS's were $70-80 and Russian SKS's were $100 but the same money now is probably worth $360-$400 in today's money. You could also get Nagants for $50-60 and Swedish Mausers for $100.

As recently as four years ago you could still get $30 Mosin-Nagants from Century if you had a game sales rep. I picked up like 25 of them at that price. When they showed up I snatched as many as I could afford. Damned shame they didn't ship them in the original case. As it turned out three of them were "paragraph guns" and quite a few were hex receivers. One even had a spliced stock. Never seen one of those before, and I was pretty sure they didn't exist until I opened that box. They sold me Yugoslavian Mausers at $39 each and three M1 carbines at $500 each. Hell it wasn't a C&R, but they sold me a Tanfoglio 9mm pistol for $100.

I really miss David Kennedy, my sales rep. He was nuttier than squirrel ****, but he was a really good salesman. He would call me up several times a month with items he knew I'd be interested in. I bought most of them too. I suspect he went round the bend when the C&R market dried up. He used to talk to me about his Miami apartment full of beans, rice, gold bars, and ammunition. I'm pretty sure he didn't have a girlfriend.