How to make people angry on GunNutz - USMC M1903 Unertl Rifle 30-06 Reproduction

Joe Amorosi said:
I think you would do better with 250 x $20
Most of us are cheap bastards,... that extra $5 isn't worth it
Remember, the rifle is refinished and the scope is a reproduction
JMO
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It may be a repro/refinished rifle, but it's also the only one available for sale in Canada right now. Watch this space for more info
 
Just a thought would it be better to put the stickers for this particular draw at $50 each and the chances of winning are one in a hundred?
 
VictoryRidgeCS said:
Someone will be very happy to win this rifle, and won't have to worry about how much they paid for it.
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Translation

" I don't have respect for the community I make a living off of and I'm just trying to make back the money I invested on a refurbished rifle that was purchased with the intent of selling to a uniformed buyer at a large mark up."

That is the conclusion you have lead us all to in this thread, thanks for the heads up on how your shop operates. ;)
 
I can see the value in it, I grew up binge watching Saving Private Ryan and Enemy At the Gates. Fortunately Mosins are cheap, even the “genuine” PU snipers are attainable. I personally would never justify the cost of any 1903 but I’m not a collector as much as someone who appreciates Milsurps and enjoys shooting them. I could get into a draw on a replica.

Sell it and they will come.

As for the price Nazis, it’s free market capitalism, if you don’t like it, move to China or something I don’t know? People have no problem dumping hundreds at the LCBO or going out for dinner but scoff at the raffle for a consignment. Wild.
 
Don't disagree that this is a very high price for this gun, but I challenge you to show me the same gun for less in Canada?
Maybe what many are reluctant to admit is that this type of rifle is extremely rare in Canada, and when you've paid to have one made for you it costs a lot of money. This is why the seller priced it how he did.
Putting it up for a sticker draw will allow people a chance to win it and they can either enjoy it for what it is or sell it on for whatever price they choose. That's the whole point of a free market.

As for "Uniformed Buyer" we have been up front from the beginning that this is not original or an authentic USMC sniper rifle...
 
VictoryRidgeCS said:
Don't disagree that this is a very high price for this gun, but I challenge you to show me the same gun for less in Canada?
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The "same gun" is just any standard non-matching 1903, then add to that the price of the "same scope" which is a reproduction.

That's the problem-- you're trying to compare to genuine examples which is ridiculous. I don't get why this is apparently hard to grasp.

I'd just tell the guy his valuation is out to lunch and he can sell it himself. That said you obviously go to great lengths to advocate for your consignors which is respectable in a way.

To the guy saying this is free market capitalism though, you're mistaken. The point of the draw is to short-circuit the free market which unanimously agrees that this price is too high. It's using a sweepstakes (not even sure if it's a legal usage of one) to achieve a price that the market would never provide.
 
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You mean like this one,
With an ORIGINAL Winchester A5 scope?

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Why does it say "reproduction" when the description is not of reproductiing rifles but a Bubba job of an existing rifle?
 
Hi Goose,

The scope is a reproduction of an original Unertl 8 Power scope used in WW2 by the USCM. Originals sell for thousands of dollars of course.

The rifle is an original Springfield 1903 that has been PROFESSIONALLY refinished by a very well respected gunsmith here in Ontario. The scope was mounted with the original style mounts that were used in the 1940s to make a "Reproduction" of a USMC 1903 Sniper.

Not sure what part of this comes off as "Bubba-d"?

I challenge you to find me a nicer example, or even equivalent example that isn't tens of thousands of dollars, because that is what originals are selling for south of the border. Or maybe you are sitting on a stash of these? All in mint original condition?
 
I do love history. From this website:

As the 1930s came to an end, so would the M1903s run as the National Match service rifle. Springfield Armory’s new semiautomatic M1 Garand was being standardized, and production of the M1903A1 ceased. The rising likelihood of American involvement in the Second World War would spark a renewed interest in sniper rifles as well. Initially, the Marine Corps decided to use their significant stock of deconstructed WWI sniper rifles of the Mann-Niedner and Springfield Marine variety. These rifles employed the Winchester A5 or Lyman 5A scope, and would be used early in the war by the elite Marine Raiders and infantrymen of the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions. The A5/5A scope was a product of WWI, and as such was antiquated technology. The Marine Corps realized this, and began an earnest search for a better optic in 1941. The work of John Unertl impressed the Marine Corps Equipment Board, which would eventually recommend Unertl’s eight-power USMC Sniper scope as their optic for the new war.
 
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