What will be the next dirt cheap surplus rifle???

[saturno_v]

Do you think there is any future candidate as dirt cheap surplus military rifle in the same price range of the Mosin Nagant???
Around here (WA) the Russian rifle is the only sub $200-250 surplus you can find.
Last year for few week there were Mauser Yugos available for $89 at Big 5 ...very short time..they disappeared.
Any ideas what we may see in the future???

 

[Rifleman 173]

Just for fun... I'm going to guess that....

Eventually some nation's military force will come up with a rifle that sort of looks like an M-1 Garand or an M-1A. It will shoot a bullet weighing about 130 grains or so. The bullet will be a yet-to-be-developed 6.5 millimeter. It will not be a modified or updated 6.5 Ljundman or Grendel. It will be something new. The rifle cartridge will be about 6.5 X 40 or 45 and along the same shape as the present 5.56 mm cartridge used by the M-4 carbine shooters.

If not the way I described it above, then somebody will go back to John Garand's original idea of using a .276 Pedersen round (?) in an M-1A type rifle just for the fun of it or maybe one in .270 Winchester. I think that somebody will figure out that this would make one heck of a serious sniper rifle or competition rifle. I think that the next up and coming gun makers will be the Isrealis once they get past their Tavor and Uzi phases of firearms. Don't get me wrong. They're doing good but I see their potential not being fully developed at this stage but once they do take off, watch out! They will become a major firearms maker and seller.

 

[ScottsGT]

I highly doubt you will see anything new come along, since everything that will be mil-surp in the near future (newer models) will be machine guns. Once a MG, always a MG. Unless this Heller thing goes really good......

 

[cleardiddion]

What about those little straight-pull aurstrian carbines I've seen crop up?

http://www.aimsurplus.com/acatalog/Austro-Hungarian_M95__Stutzen__8x56R_Mannlicher_Carbine.html

 

[CYANIDEGENOCIDE]

that is an interesting question. in short i dont think you will see another milsurp like the mosin. none as prolific or cheap anyway. if i had to pick one guess i would say the ak-47 sorta filled that role.

 

[ColinthePilot]

I highly doubt you will see anything new come along, since everything that will be mil-surp in the near future (newer models) will be machine guns. Once a MG, always a MG. Unless this Heller thing goes really good......

+1

There aren't many modern military weapons that aren't select fire anymore. Its a shame that the lifespan of semi-autos in military service was so short. I don't see Heller repealing the NFA of(was it 1934 that effectively banned Machine Guns?) That would be freakin sweet though. M-16A1s become $150 out of CMP

 

[MaterDei]

Couldn't the select fire rifles be cheaply converted to semi only and then sold as surplus?

 

[Fast Frank]

Surplus rifles will be banned next year.

 

[JonB]

Surplus rifles will be banned next year.

??

 

[NeoSpud]

MaterDei - Sadly not. As it's been said, "once a machine gun, always a machine gun"

FastFrank - any source on that, or are you thinking pessimistically towards the election?

 

[aka108]

Almost all military longarms today are select fire. They will be scrapped, not surplused. We may see more of what is currently available comming to market as some foreign arsenals are totally emptied of surplus arms. Maybe the best condition items will be the last ones in.

 

[NG VI]

I also don't think we'll be seeing any new surplus rifles, because of policies and beaurocracy (**** I spelled that wrong) labeling any service weapon as "military-grade" and other nonsense. who cares if the military uses it, how is that relevant to the rifles superb plnking and competition uses?

I think we should all be saving up and buying whatever we want now, because the Constitution and Bill of Rights has never been so selectively ignored as it is by the crew of political figures now.

 

[jpwilly]

Maybe the best condition items will be the last ones in.

We can only hope!

 

[elmerfudd]

How about all the main battle rifles of the 50's and 60's? FAL's, G3's, M14's, etc... were produced by the millions and largely in semi-auto form. They're also just starting to turn 50.

Is there any particular reason why these couldn't be imported? So far as I'm aware, C&R status trumps 925d.

 

[buck00]

I think that is a very good question. However I think the answer is the "golden days" of surplus rifles is coming to an end. Someday our grandkids will be amazed we access to so many rifles in the early 21st century.

And we'll be kicking ourselves for not buying what we could before the political atmosphere changed.

 

[Hokkmike]

I think the day of the surplus rifle is fading! After next fall it may just vanish.

 

[RP88]

or, maybe it wont.

at best, you may see SKSs drop down to being cheap (maybe to about 120-150 bucks) again if by some off-chance some old Bloc countries would be allowed to get rid of all the ones they still have by giving them to our market. Maybe even Mosins would go down to be even cheaper as well.

Other than that, nothing will really change, considering our economy and inflation.

 

[mnw42]

I was thinking that a M1A in 7mm-08 would be a neat rifle.

 

[Mk VII]

Nations around the world are coming under increasing pressure from the UN to destroy their surplus stocks of arms and not sell them. This is done by attaching strings to aid, etc.

 

[Dave R]

I think the day of the surplus rifle is fading! After next fall it may just vanish.

That's my take on things.