Only because I wanted a cheap and ruined rifle to bubba, but I didn't care to support them after seeing testimonials/reviews.
Well you could definitely get one. Just like the rifle Oswald had, you wouldn't be able to shoot a target at 100 feet much less 1000.
I've never really done any collecting outside of WW2 pistols and most my trading is on forums so I'd never run across them. But yeah with 5 seconds of research I found out to avoid them.
My guess is that he's a bit too starry-eyed about the "historical" part since these rifles have a lot of "provenance", and forgetting the "gun" part.
God I wish. Russian surplus is so damn expensive compared to its actual usefulness because of gay import laws. I long for the days of $200 post-soviet import rifles.
Not gonna lie, I got mine like 15 years ago. This thing has been with me since before my marriage so I haven't really kept up with the prices since.
When I was a teenager, Mosins and SKSes were on racks for $60.
Would love to have one of each. Pretty pricey for what they are these days, though.
There really isn't any option anymore. The surplus has dried up completely, the parts kits are pretty much all gone and the ones you do find are expensive to the point where building them will cost more than just buying a rifle, and anything newer than 1945 is way too tacticool for most import laws to handle as well as the fact that once again all the available parts and guns have been hoovered up by old fuckers who either bought them new decades ago or who spent their corvette money on Cold War surplus.
They're still pretty cheap in Canada. Taking into account inflation and exchange rates you might get one there for around that price. But here in the US we're in an anti-Russia craze so fuck us I guess.
Canada is probably still able to get them cheap because they don't have NORINCO sanctioned, so China can still export stuff to them.
Give it a couple more years. With the way things are going over there, we might see a full gun grab happening not too far in the future.
AFAIK they get the real Slavic shit too. I've heard of people getting some sweet deals on Russian made (basically banned to import into the USA now unless you got it from Africa or something) and satellite state weapons.
Give it time, Carcanos used to be ignored by anyone not terminally autistic and over the pandemic they've become the new nugget in both that it was cheap and now it isn't - with the massive caveat of there not being good and accessible ammunition.
That's what made the nugget and the SKS (and the late 80's/early 90's Chinese AK's) though, they were decent guns that you could get piles of blasting ammo for for basically nothing.
That is. But in our current climate you've also got a constant fear of missing out - FOMO as the kids abbreviate it - which is far superior to any sort of marketing. It inspires buying dumb shit that may or may not disappear in the next year or so regardless of practicality.
