Insane Gunbroker listing of the day-

[brewer12345]

I am starting to think about listing my Nagant revolver. I think it is a neat piece of history, but they have appreciated kind of a silly amount. I suppose they may continue doing so.

 

[MosinT53Hunter]

I am starting to think about listing my Nagant revolver. I think it is a neat piece of history, but they have appreciated kind of a silly amount. I suppose they may continue doing so.

I remember when they first hit the pages of Shotgun News. $49.99. Man, if only I had a Magic 8 Ball then. They sure have gone up and up since then.

 

[ThomasT]

Well I listed the Taurus TCP on GB with a start price of $100. I also hit the Buy Now button on a Ruger EC9s for $279 to replace it. So we'll see how that goes. I really don't care if I sell the TCP or not. But no problem if I do. I wish it were in 32acp. If it was there is no way I would consider selling it. I'm like a few others. I wish Ruger would offer the LCP II in 32acp but without the safety like on the 22lr version. I would be all over that one.

 

[wiscoaster]

—-... If the NRA rates chopped surplus, they really have fallen far.

No, I'm sure they don't, but it's a rating system where buyers understand the definitions, sellers understand the definitions, and sometimes the terms are applied to articles for which they're inappropriate. It's up to the sellers to be honest about not doing that and up to the buyers to be aware and to avoid sellers that do it. Nothing more egregious than you'd find in any free market system.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I remember when they first hit the pages of Shotgun News. $49.99. Man, if only I had a Magic 8 Ball then. They sure have gone up and up since then.

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When the M91, 91/30, 91/56, M44 and M38 rifles were advertised at $50 each or less, I bought as many as I could afford without shorting bills. About a dozen, all told. I cleaned them replaced missing bits, repaired obviously broken stuff - basic clean and repair. A few I let go to friends who missed the bandwagon, all for what I paid plus a bump for my time. When prices went over $250 for dead-stock, plain-Jane M91's, I put the whole lot up on GB through the same LGS I transferred them through originally. Accounting for inflation and the devalued dollar, I made about a 35% ROI on each. I only have two MN's left and both are rifles I had modified by a gunsmith for my own hunting and shooting preferences - bent bolts, Fajen wood stocks, one has a flash suppressor and replacement sights, no scopes but I have custom made mounts ready to go anytime I want to drill a receiver. One can be put back to as-issued, but refinished, the other has had the barrel cut, reprofiled and recrowned. Both were the worst-of-the-worst from CDN twenty years ago, give or take a few months and both are now truly superb carry rifles. The stocks I tossed because I couldn't repair them or get the stench out. Neither is exactly a tack-driver; but then, I don't hunt tacks.

Moral of the story is, we rarely know in advance what will be hot and what will be not. I won a little investing in Enfields, Mausers, and Mosins when surplus poured in to the country cheap. Lost a little on some other not very good choices - had the chance in '95 to buy a crate of Chinese SKS' for $49 each and passed it up thinking, who would be crazy enough to want one of those pieces of garbage? Sold my Bulgarian AK-74's way too early and way too cheap. And, anybody need Austrian M95 Steyer-Mannlicher 8x56R surplus ammo? In the boxes on clips. I got lots.

 

[potmetal]

KelTec P17 on Gunbroker for $480. I just bought one at my LGS for $199.

 

[Enfielder]

Maybe we should start our own "common sense" gun auction here on THR. I use that term to take it back from the antis. We can set our own sensible prices and even set up a virtual swap meet/gun show.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Maybe we should start our own "common sense" gun auction here on THR. I use that term to take it back from the antis. We can set our own sensible prices and even set up a virtual swap meet/gun show.

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I can open with a bucket full of parts for Enfields - TZ sights, bolt bodies, oilers, and some odd bit and baubles.

 

[Confederate]

I keep hoping my Ruger Security-Sixes go way up in price. That way, when I refuse to sell them, it'll bug my wife just that much more!

I don't know about anyone else, but I think Ruger needs to beef up its GP-100s more. They're far too frail. It needs to add more steel to the frames so that they won't get bent when people fire them. I think about eight or nine ounces ought to suffice.

For the barrel. Then maybe three more ounces for the forcing cone, and another six ounces for the grips.

We need to make it more robust. The cylinder also needs to be thicker with more steel between chambers. And we need a Super Redhawk for .22 shorts. With scope mounts, flash suppressor and a muzzlebrake.

Ruger used to make strong revolvers. It's letting us down.

 

[FFGColorado]

These are 'tough' times for any of us who are actually in the market for something.

I'm looking for either a
-Mossberg Shockwave in 410
-Henry Axe in 410
-Stoeger O/U in 20g

'Some' on GB for YUGE $...No LGS can get any of them. Various 'gun buyer' search engines show zero...oh well...none are essential.

 

[Wishoot]

I keep hoping my Ruger Security-Sixes go way up in price. That way, when I refuse to sell them, it'll bug my wife just that much more!

LOL! That's how I feel about mine.

 

[Confederate]

I haven't been out lately. What is ammo availability these days?

 

[MosinT53Hunter]

I haven't been out lately. What is ammo availability these days?

Depending on where your at, its some to none.

 

[P5 Guy]

Gun shops should use the old flag system from the OPEC embargo.
Red for no ammo (gas), yellow for limited purchase and green for come on in and fill up.

 

[ThomasT]

Well I listed the Taurus TCP on GB with a start price of $100. I also hit the Buy Now button on a Ruger EC9s for $279 to replace it. So we'll see how that goes. I really don't care if I sell the TCP or not. But no problem if I do. I wish it were in 32acp. If it was there is no way I would consider selling it. I'm like a few others. I wish Ruger would offer the LCP II in 32acp but without the safety like on the 22lr version. I would be all over that one.

This was from my post #78. An unrated buyer hit the Buy Now button on the TCP for $250 dollars. I was sort of hoping it wouldn't sell but it did. I hope the new owner likes the gun. I will list the 380 ammo I have for it after the holiday's. I don't feel like dealing with the UPS office just before christmas. I will start it at .25 a round and let the buyers set the final price.

If you have stuff to sell now is the time to do it. Unfortunately I don't have ant excess I want to get rid of. I just like to swap out guns sometimes.

 

[Necessary_Nutrient]

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That’s the thing about communists, fascists, and other supporters of tyranny: they are patient and methodical.

On the other side, many ‘patriots’ have distinguished themselves with their spur of the moment calls to civil war over some dirtbags fantasies and allegations. I think we all need to remain vigilant about being ‘led’ anywhere

 

[JohnKSa]

Got tired of trying to figure out how to remove all the off-topic remarks that have been interspersed into the posts without destroying the continuity of the thread and decided to just close it instead.

The OP is welcome to open a new thread on the same topic.