Mosin prices...

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Just got an email from AIM about their "exciting new shipment" of random shooter grade Mosins... for the low low price of $339 plus shipping and transfer each(assuming you don't have a C&R)!

Who's still buying these old relics at that price? I got the appeal when I bought my 1st one for $20 at Rose's. I understood it at $50, $75, $99, maybe even $150 when the ammo was still cheap. I can't fathom it now. They're neat, sure, but they suck to shoot; they're a pain to clean and maintain with corrosive ammo, and you have few options for ammo to begin with. With so many great options in rifles at or below $300 they make no practical sense anymore.

Unless you are really into historical Russian military arms they just seem silly now...
 
Hunk of cheap steel and wood, made by the millions, with "minute of Ukrainian farmer" accuracy... Sounds like $300... ;)
You just described an AK lol
 
I like my Mosin I got from a seller on the BST last year. Great trigger, decent bore. It was worth the money I paid, compared to $300 everywhere I have seen that comes with no sling, no mag pouches, and no ammo
 
Not saying they are worth $300+, but the ones at AIM are Tula builds, which tend to command a bit of a premium over Izhevsk Mosins. Same goes for the hex receivers also available.
 
I like my Mosin I got from a seller on the BST last year. Great trigger, decent bore. It was worth the money I paid, compared to $300 everywhere I have seen that comes with no sling, no mag pouches, and no ammo

Great trigger? On a Mosin? A Mosin rifle? I find that statement suspect...
 
They quit making Chrysler K cars too...
I had a new '85 K car as a company car. It was plain alright, but much better quality than my 1981, or 1983 company Buricks.

And when I say "quality", I mean that in the most "relative" terms possible.
 
Aside from limited variants that may actually be of limited supply (ski troopers, Cossacks, 1891 dated, etc,), I think it is a bit of a bubble that is gonna burst at some point. When the retail supply was disrupted/diverted a while back due to the Ukraine and Syria, the online sellers started trying to fuel a panic by advertising/implying that their shipment was the "last batch of Mosin Nagants ever"; "no more will ever be imported" "this is the last batch we will ever get"; "our importer says there are no more left in the world", etc. And they jacked up the price every time another "last batch ever" hit the market. Yet here we are, 5 years later and pretty much every C&R retailer left in the marketplace has gotten several more batches in the last few months (Classic, AIM, J&G). Hell, even Cabelas got a shit ton of them recently. The problem is that there are a ton of gullible folks out there that think that just because there are no large batches on the retail market, they must be "rare" now. They aren't. I know dozens of collectors that have dozens of them lying around gathering dust. Classic alone sold hundreds of full crates of 91/30's to folks that are convinced that they are going to retire someday off of their crate of 12 round receiver Ishevsk's with accessories. But the truth is, even if they never import another one, they will never be rare. They made like 100 million of the damn things and millions of them were sold in the US at dirt cheap prices in the 80's and 90's by Roses and other retail junk dumpers. In the next decade or so as the death of the hobby of collecting accelerates, these things are going to start flooding the market again and the prices are going to readjust.
 
So you are saying this is the time to sell? Got it.


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Great trigger? On a Mosin? A Mosin rifle? I find that statement suspect...
I have a rusty old T53 that will surprise you. The triggers are dead simple and really easy to clean up.

And the Kcar analogy is a good one. They were pure function over form and no frills. I had a car and also worked out of a mini van based on the design. They just would not quit
 
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I have an old Mosin, I think I paid $130 for it during a big group purchase the forum did a while back. I actually like the ol'garbage rod. It is relatively accurate, but I really just enjoy watching the big fireballs, stout recoil, and effect on target. That sucker will blow up some dirt/pumpkins/tree stumps. I also bought a can of ammo for about $80 or so at the time. So, while I think it would be "economical" to sell the can of ammo and rifle for about a 100% profit...its still a fun range toy and conversation piece.
 
I have the carbine version of a mosin, with about 1000 rounds or so of ammo. I don't know what they bring right now, but I have no attachment to it. Wood is in decent shape, with the exception of a piece that has been glued back in. Bore and barrel are decent.
Been meaning to sell it.
Anyone know what I should ask?
 
I have the carbine version of a mosin, with about 1000 rounds or so of ammo. I don't know what they bring right now, but I have no attachment to it. Wood is in decent shape, with the exception of a piece that has been glued back in. Bore and barrel are decent.
Been meaning to sell it.
Anyone know what I should ask?

In my humble opinion:
$250 would sell it before you closed your browser
$300 would sell it quick
$350 would sell it within a day or so
$400 would sell it within a week

Ammo: Cans of 440 are going for about $180-200 if able to be found, so:
$.30 per round would sell within a day
$.35 per round within a few days
$.40 per round would sell within a week.
 
In my humble opinion:
$250 would sell it before you closed your browser
$300 would sell it quick
$350 would sell it within a day or so
$400 would sell it within a week

Ammo: Cans of 440 are going for about $180-200 if able to be found, so:
$.30 per round would sell within a day
$.35 per round within a few days
$.40 per round would sell within a week.
Thank you.
I might require a bill of sale with it, though ..... (just kidding)
 
I have toyed with selling mine, as I alluded to slightly, but there is a kid at my church that loves militaria, loves going shooting with me, and adored the mosin when he shot it. So I am trying to convince myself to give it to him when he graduates high school.
 
Print it out in Cyrillic script and I'll sign it.
 
When they were $75 each, I bought several, because they were interesting bits of history I could shoot. When prices started to go up, I sold all of mine, and doubled my money. Since then, I've seen it double again.

I still run into the occasional shooter (usually a young guy) who's excited about $300 mosins. Sometimes is a uninformed guy with good intentions who wants to sporterize it into something else. I tell them there are plenty of brand new Savages, Mossbergs, etc in the price range that will out-shoot a mosin all day, and built with better quality too.
 
@RFMan he is a doubter. This is the main reason I bought this one. I can measure the trigger pull and post videos lol
Oh, he cut me to the quick :D
I was surprised when I dry fired it when I bought it. But pleasantly so!
 
I got one for me and one for each of my boys when AIM had them for $70. A few 880 round wooden crates (2 spam cans each) at the same time.


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@RFMan he is a doubter. This is the main reason I bought this one. I can measure the trigger pull and post videos lol

I was just messin... I'm sure they can be cleaned up ok. Curious what yours is though.

I had one of those timney drop ins in one. That was a sweet trigger...
 
I used to buy the Albanian import T53's from Bud's. The last batch I bought, they were 3 for $200 and free shipping. They were so trashed, they didn't even put bubble wrap in the box, they'd just throw 3 loose rifles into a cardboard box and send it. They'd come in with the barrels poking out the sides of the box. Every one of them was so beat up, but the actions were worn smooth as butter and the triggers were great. Remarkably, the bores were uusually pretty good too.
 
I bought one when they were cheap, because they were really cheap.
Then I shot it and was like "dang, what a cheap piece of crap".

But at least it shoots 6 ' high at 100 yards. And, the tight 8" groups and clunky, shit trigger make for a "fun" shooting experience. Although it did come with some cheaply made crap you can hang off it or just generally throw in the pile of useless cheap crap never to be used again (and can't be given away), cuz I need more of that!

Sold it, and I truly hope the new owner enjoys it. He was into WW2 stuff and was making a Crate 'O Mosins coffee table or some such thing, which actually sounded cool. Y'all can have the Mosins.

This post will read better if you imagine it said in a snobby corksniffer voice.
 
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