Yeah that price seems a bit high but not crazy, its probably a $350 rifle.

Good rifles are a great place to park money, but you just can't shoot them to much. This is why I like modern rifles I can shoot them a lot, beat on them, etc and not feel guilty.

If I treated my Fn49 or M1 Carbine like I do my Sig when I go camping I'd feel guilty as can be. I love looking at and shooting my old stuff once in awhile. But I like taking a modern rifle, getting the barrel steaming by cutting down a tree, than laying it in the mud if I need to put it down and not care. I can always get parts for the modern stuff, not so much for a 1911 Swiss rifle. Plus modern rifles are built out of pretty durable stuff, I don't think its possible to really hurt them. The Scar for example I'm pretty sure you could store it under water and not bother it, its all plastic, stainless, and coated aluminum.

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I'm watching two of those auctions...one has a scope with a reserve that I feel is way too high, the other is a forced numbers matching (electro pencil etch).

I've fallen in love with Soviet weapons...built like tanks, and just about as heavy.

My neighbor came over yesterday with a M44 Tula with a 1944 build date that he recently picked up for a song. It's currently in my basement, waiting on me to take it apart and completely clean all of the cosmoline off and out of it. I enjoy seeing the difference in manufacturing style of these prior and during the war. Prior, there was much more time to make them look good as well as fire well. During the war, it was more of a balls to the wall effort...lathe marks, mill chatter, etc is easily seen on the barrels and receivers, but they are still great shooters.

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The most rough ones were the 1942 builds, I have one that's a good shooter but man its rough.

But 1942 was a pretty busy year in Russia; they needed every shooting weapon they could turn out to be shooting. Looks and finish didn't really matter as much as lead down range.

Kind of like anything the Germans made in 1945 or the Japanese, they got really rough.

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Exactly!

I have a pair of 91/30s, one is a 1943, which is pretty rough with sharp edges and tool chatter, and a 1938 which is pretty smooth. You can really see the years where quantity of build won the battle over craftsmanship of build.

I'm currently in the market for a replacement stock for the 1938. You can see where they dropped it in the box and split the stock through the bottom butt-plate screw, which is apparently common, judging by some of the arsenal splints I've seen. I read that it was a weak point of the stock. I injected some Gorilla Glue through a syringe in the crack, but I'm afraid that if I fire it, it will split more. I'm not interested in pinning the crack just now, I just want a replacement stock. I've found some that don't look too bad in the $30 range online, but you can't see cracks online.

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It can be done. One fellow I used to work with got out of his dozer to take a whiz, placed his M4 on the track, and then forgot about it until after he drove off. He got in a bit of trouble over that one

Another time, a guy was driving along in a John Deere Gator, hit a bump, and his M16 bounced out of the vehicle and landed in front of it just in time to get run over. You'd be surprised how much damage a Gator can do to an M16. Bent the barrel, among other things.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

Stealth Uppers | LaRue Tactical

Hmm 18in stealth upper as a DMR rifle? Sounds good.

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I have an Iszhevsk M44, dated 1944 that I picked up for 80 bucks June 03rd 2005. It's a nice looking gun

but it's been counterbored. Unfortunately although it's a handsome piece it shoots like crap. About the least accurate of 20 odd millsurps I own.

- Peter.

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1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
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