Value of Swedish M96 rifles these days? Also Spanish Mauserand others.

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I may be taking some guns to a gun show. I have a 1911 Carl Gustav Swede M96 and my neighbour has one too we want to sell. I think mine is what could be called NRA VG and his Good. I wonder what is a fair price?

There is also a Spanish air force La Coruna Mauser in Good condition and a Mosin Nagant, but I don't know much about that one. Hex receiver on it I think.

I have a sporterized USM17 30-06 with a scope on it too.

Any ideas?


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At the gun show put 500 on everything but the sporter and be willing to negotiate. If I had the cash I would take that Spanish Mauser myself.
 
One of the factors is ammo and "collectability".

Swedes have low collector value, while 98ks, Mosins, SVTs have been in combat.

Swede ammo is expensive russian/chinese surplus still available.

P.S. I like mausers in general, and hate Mosins, so there is that.
 
BlackVoid said:
One of the factors is ammo and "collectability".

Swedes have low collector value, while 98ks, Mosins, SVTs have been in combat.

Swede ammo is expensive russian/chinese surplus still available.

P.S. I like mausers in general, and hate Mosins, so there is that.
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I'm not sure Swedes aren't collectible - just look at the lowly Ljungman and wonder why it's worth so much. The M96's are common especially the older ones with certain years being the norm. I don't know why but there are many 1900 M96 rifles out there. There are some years that are like hens teeth - I can't recall an intact M96 from the '20's coming up for sale in the past year. $400 to $500 seems about right for a run of the mill unaltered swede with a #1 or better barrel. No discount for the threaded barrel because that was how the military practiced. Converted to target rifles, the gun has a different following and I couldn't guess the prices. Maybe a good comparable is Tradeex because they have some on their website ($450 retail).
Swede ammo is very expensive but almost every type of ammunition is pricey. Crazy expensive to shoot .303 as well.
Reloading is the way to go with the swedes.

Russian guns are collectible in their own right and cheap to shoot if you use corrosive ammo. There's a separate thread on the SVT 40 that has some great comments about the market.
 
BlackVoid said:
One of the factors is ammo and "collectability".

Swedes have low collector value, while 98ks, Mosins, SVTs have been in combat.

Swede ammo is expensive russian/chinese surplus still available.

P.S. I like mausers in general, and hate Mosins, so there is that.
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Some of the Swede Mausers saw action in Finland/Norway/Denmark.

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I hate to sell guns but sold 3 octagonal-receiver Mosin Nagants of Finnish provenance and was astounded what they brought. I collect Finnish militaria and sold guns of which I had "doubles", selling the ones with minute imperfections; and keeping the pristine. My SA marked full military, 96 Swede would probably command half-the value of the similar Nagants; although it is one Swede that has seen combat. I also have SA marked Carcanos which have never commanded a value; even though you can get prvi cases and hornady bullets.
 
While I really have an affinity for small-ring mausers; I must say that my favourites are, large-ring,Norwegian Krag-Jorgensen rifles. I cut my teeth working on re-barreling Turkish Mausers from International Firearms in the eighties.; the most memorable of which was a 1903 turk with a 96 swede barrel. Siamese Mauser's like my mother's in .303 Epps Improved and mine in 7.62x54 also turn my crank.
 
M94’s command pretty big prices but they’re scarcer. M38’s are my favorite Milsurp and I think all-round the best Swede bolt gun. Basically the gun catching up with the ammo.
 
undervalued is interesting as we used to get 96es from international firearms by the crate at 49.00 and now they start at 450.00. If I would have bought crates of Nagants at 29.95 and crates of Swedes, they would have outperformed any securities of that time til now.This is the real reason the government hates guns and love booze, cigarettes, and especially automobiles and now dope.
 
Ganderite said:
I recently sold a Spanish air force La Coruna Mauser for $450.

Swedes don't seem to command a price commensurate with their quality and good shooting.
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They've been horribly undervalued for ....forever. They seem to just get lumped together with the M43 Spanish Mauser.
 
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