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Neo-Nazi Rich Evans said:
yeah, it is insane how quickly prices on mill sup went up.


feel the same way about cheap sks and takarev. i remember when you used to get them new in box with spare mag, holster, and cleaning rod for $99. glad i got my vz when i did. $200 for it and two mags.
apparent J&G has them for $300 which is still a very good deal. (shopping around you might be able to find one a tad bit cheaper) i recommend everyone in this thread to get one while you can.
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The CZ82 makes the Makarov obsolete.
This is a definite buy gentleman.
 
It. Is. DONE!

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Pretend To Imagine said:
I got a Mosin for $75 many years ago and it wasn’t worth that. There is a reason they are called “garbage rods”
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The first three I got were from crates that a bunch of us on the Mosin-Nagant forums pooled & paid for; it was $50ea IIRC, first in got first picks. Out of those three crates I got a nice 1940 Izhevsk M38 carbine, an even nicer '29 Tula hex 91/30 (which I still have), and a Russian captured (recaptured?) M39.

Not long ago someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse (like borderline stupid) for the M39, even though it was post-war arsenal refinished. Just being an M39 was enough for the guy. After that & watching prices go up on clapped out garbage rods, I'm still kicking myself for not snatching up every Tula hex & Finnish Mosin I came across back in the day, because $150-300ea was too much geld compared to what I was paying normally.
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Dean Pentel said:
Overrated? REEEEEEE!

But yes, I'm one of the faggots that likes that round so I get where you're coming from about its fans.
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This happens with ever new wonder round. 40, .357 Sig, .300 Blk, 6.5 creedmore, etc.

The fans think its the best thing since semi auto but they often lose sight of the value in established rounds. .45acp, 9mm (still euro but were used to it now), 380acp, .22lr, 357mag, 5.56, 7.62, 12ga, 30-06, etc

Time tested and time proven rounds have a value that transcends a ballistic chart or a gel test.
 
Neo-Nazi Rich Evans said:
how are mosins selling for 300+ dollars? i got mine for 70 bucks. jesus this sucks.
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The 2008 election did irreversible damage to overall gun prices, 2012 solidified them, Russia sanctions put a clamp on imports, and this current Eastern European disagreement eliminated the chance of getting guns from Russia.
All of this combined with what is now called the YOLO/FOMO(You Only Live Once/Fear Of Missing Out) mindset means people will pay retarded amounts of money for trash only because there will come a time they will not be able to get it and they want it now.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
mindset means people will pay retarded amounts of money for trash only because there will come a time they will not be able to get it and they want it now.
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Not paying retarded amounts of money for obscure autistic shit but many of my firearms purchases have 100% been fueled by that mentality.

Why do I own a G3? Why do I own a P90? Because who the fuck knows what will happen 1 5 or 10 years from now.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
The 2008 election did irreversible damage to overall gun prices, 2012 solidified them, Russia sanctions put a clamp on imports, and this current Eastern European disagreement eliminated the chance of getting guns from Russia.
All of this combined with what is now called the YOLO/FOMO(You Only Live Once/Fear Of Missing Out) mindset means people will pay retarded amounts of money for trash only because there will come a time they will not be able to get it and they want it now.
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please dont remind me of 2008. right before that happened i decided it was time to buy a good priced sks next time i found one at a gun show. guess what happened next? the sks was one of the very first guns everyone panic bought. i was screwed so hard out of the one gun i very much wanted. to this day i dont have one and i cry myself to sleep at night remembering how good the prices were and how easy they were to find.

all these years i have been hoping that the prices would drop. i figured, very wrongly btw, that after the panic, people would eventually start selling off some of the guns they bought. i was hoping we would see people drop their unwanted sks onto the market for a bit of cash they needed for other bills. so far that hasnt happened in enough numbers for it to affect the overal price or avaliability.

i think im just going to have to bite the bullet and slap down the money to get one.
 
DocAwe said:
Sorry to tell you bro, but they are never "done".
Big changes maybe but the tweaks will never end. 👍🏻
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True. There are some other personal touches I plan to make, like getting a gas buster charging handle, upgrading to a TAB Gear sling (I've got them on my Origin 12 and Mk14 and love them), and I plan to put the 16" stainless steel 5R barrel from LMT on it. But it is done in that I've finally got the suppressor mounted on it.

Dean Pentel said:
Please elaborate.

Nani dafuq?! I bought a very nice Obendorf-built 1942 Mauser in '09 for $212. I then immediately bubba'd the fuck out of it by rebarreling it with a heavy 20" .308 barrel and Lyman 57 peep sights.

What BUIS are you using on this one?
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Just the Magpul metal BUIS. I will probably get LMT's BUIS set eventually, but for now this works.
 
Dean Pentel said:
Nani dafuq?! I bought a very nice Obendorf-built 1942 Mauser in '09 for $212. I then immediately bubba'd the fuck out of it by rebarreling it with a heavy 20" .308 barrel and Lyman 57 peep sights.
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Russian Captures have hovered around $900 for the past few years. Newer production Yugo Mausers or other "minor countries" are ~$500, give or take.
 
Neo-Nazi Rich Evans said:
please dont remind me of 2008. right before that happened i decided it was time to buy a good priced sks next time i found one at a gun show. guess what happened next? the sks was one of the very first guns everyone panic bought. i was screwed so hard out of the one gun i very much wanted. to this day i dont have one and i cry myself to sleep at night remembering how good the prices were and how easy they were to find.

all these years i have been hoping that the prices would drop. i figured, very wrongly btw, that after the panic, people would eventually start selling off some of the guns they bought. i was hoping we would see people drop their unwanted sks onto the market for a bit of cash they needed for other bills. so far that hasnt happened in enough numbers for it to affect the overal price or avaliability.

i think im just going to have to bite the bullet and slap down the money to get one.
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Feelz. SKSs used to be so damn cheap and cheerful.

The Gun market now is odd. Most new/in production stuff is cheap (ish) yet anything old is ridiculously expensive.

WhoBusTank69 said:
WW2 guns going for less than one thousand dollars, pistols almost being given away, AKs being sold by the crate because nobody cared
I mean at least today you can buy an AR for a reasonable sum but seeing the difference made me hate gun sellers as much as the grabbers.
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Same same. Pre 2008 you'd get AKs for under $500 all day and usually they'd throw in 100-500 rounds of ammo.



WASRs were still cheap until 2020 turbo fucked everything. Now it's $850 for a combloc AK.

The Dude said:
Just the Magpul metal BUIS. I will probably get LMT's BUIS set eventually, but for now this works
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Magpul Gen 3 polymer right here.

Honestly the Pros are as good as any AR needs.

They're durable, slim have dual apertures and aren't silly expensive like some other metal folding sights are.
 
Bogliacci said:
Extremely jelly of the OWL you got there bud
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I like the OWL, but it is a little platform specific. It doesn't lend itself well to platforms that have charging handles located up where the handguard is, nor are they very good on platforms with really chonky handguards. Works great on my LMT, but not well on my Mk14, AUG A3. or Origin 12. I have a Surefire Scout Light with remote switch on my Origin 12 and I'll likely do the same or get a Cloud Defensive Rein 3.0 for the Mk14 and AUG when the time comes. But the OWL is a great light in a well thought out package for AR style platforms.

@Falcos_Commisar the thing I like about the LMT BUIS is that it has a BDC ranging feature on it. You can get them calibrated for 5.56mm or 7.62x51mm NATO, in either meters or yards. I like having redundancy in a fighting weapon, and it would be nice to know that in the even that my optic goes down that my irons can be easily adjusted for range.
 
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