Keltec RFB value?

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Miles Teg

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Can anyone give me a ballpark on what to list this for in the EE? I normally just look at what other people are asking but I don't see any on there. It was just unboxed yesterday and had 20 rounds fired through her.
 
Ask for the retail price plus shipping, is good place to start. You can ask for exactly what you paid for taxes and all, eventually someone who wants one bad enough will buy it.
 
Wrong Way said:
Spoken like someone who doesn't own one, hasn't shot one, and can't afford one ;)

The RFB is a GREAT rifle....and I agree with Patjohnw
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I would agree with both of you.

I have sold 3 RFB's in the last month, all had a reasonably low round count, came with cheek covers and all sold for between $2000 and $2200. If you want to sell it now $2250 is a good place to start but if you want to bump it up ask retail.
 
daniel_250r said:
Nex to nothing they are horrible guns even the most cobbled norinco will last longer
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You obviously have never owned one and spent serious range time with one. Mine has worked flawlessly out of the box for hundreds of rounds. Far better than my XCR-M did initially.

I would never spend money on a Norinco with all the complaints about fit, finish and exploding guns. Your comparing a Ferrari to a Yugo.
 
I owned an RFB for a few months and personally thought it wasn't for me. I was worried I would break it especially the ejection line. Didn't much care for the surplus mags I had. The rifle itself shot fairly accurately, but mine wasn't completely reliable and for me reliability and durability are very important and I couldn't justify keeping a 2000+ rifle that I knew wouldn't go bang everytime.

As for their value i bought mine for about 2200 on a steal of a deal and ended up selling it with some accessories I had purchased for about $2400.
 
mildcustom2 said:
You obviously have never owned one and spent serious range time with one. Mine has worked flawlessly out of the box for hundreds of rounds. Far better than my XCR-M did initially.

I would never spend money on a Norinco with all the complaints about fit, finish and exploding guns. Your comparing a Ferrari to a Yugo.
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Maybe I' m wrong but I get the feeling that daniel_250r was making a tongue-in-cheek comment. If he's serious then I suggest you carry on slagging him. ;)
 
Never own one and never shoot one. But I will only stick with battle proven design if I want reliability

But it's just me
 
GTOVR4 said:
Never own one and never shoot one. But I will only stick with battle proven design if I want reliability

But it's just me
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So when do you expect to be going into battle? :)

But hey...if you can show me a "battle proven", non restricted, 308, bullpup rifle, I'll cinsider it, but considering the only "battle" you or I are going to see involves targets that don't shoot back, I think I can (and do) enjoy my RFB for what it is :)
 
JNA said:
I owned an RFB for a few months and personally thought it wasn't for me. I was worried I would break it especially the ejection line. Didn't much care for the surplus mags I had. The rifle itself shot fairly accurately, but mine wasn't completely reliable and for me reliability and durability are very important and I couldn't justify keeping a 2000+ rifle that I knew wouldn't go bang everytime.

As for their value i bought mine for about 2200 on a steal of a deal and ended up selling it with some accessories I had purchased for about $2400.
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If you took it apart you would have noticed there isn't really that much that isn't reliable. It's not a military rifle mostly due to the material quality. The actual system that the RFB is based on is very tried and true. It uses a short piston tilting block which is similar in design to the SVT40, FN FAL, CZ858, Remington 870 etc. There's nothing not tried and true about it. Most reliability issues are due to too many gas settings, the odd manufacturer defect and the number one culprit for most semi autos the magazine. Magazine issues are the most likely to cause you failures.

I've used two of them and never had any fail to fires. But magazines were carefully checked, the rifles were soaked in G96 along with oil in the proper spots a number of days before shooting. The gas settings were also setup properly.
 
Epoxy7 said:
If you took it apart you would have noticed there isn't really that much that isn't reliable. It's not a military rifle mostly due to the material quality. The actual system that the RFB is based on is very tried and true. It uses a short piston tilting block which is similar in design to the SVT40, FN FAL, CZ858, Remington 870 etc. There's nothing not tried and true about it. Most reliability issues are due to too many gas settings, the odd manufacturer defect and the number one culprit for most semi autos the magazine. Magazine issues are the most likely to cause you failures.

I've used two of them and never had any fail to fires. But magazines were carefully checked, the rifles were soaked in G96 along with oil in the proper spots a number of days before shooting. The gas settings were also setup properly.
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Im sure it is a fine rifle, but just wasn't right for me at the time. I was worried about those small metal pieces which were to guide the bullet for the ejection.
 
JNA said:
Im sure it is a fine rifle, but just wasn't right for me at the time. I was worried about those small metal pieces which were to guide the bullet for the ejection.
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Fair enough. I have considered selling the RFB but then I notice it's about half the length of my favourite AR10 rifles. I just can't bring myself to sell it as there's nothing else like it out there right now.
 
mildcustom2 said:
You obviously have never owned one and spent serious range time with one. Mine has worked flawlessly out of the box for hundreds of rounds. Far better than my XCR-M did initially.

I would never spend money on a Norinco with all the complaints about fit, finish and exploding guns. Your comparing a Ferrari to a Yugo.
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Norinco's are made well, and they occasionally have some fit quirks from what I heard, but from what I bought, they have great finish, and great quality made. You need to own one before knocking it.
 
Cherrybum said:
Norinco's are made well, and they occasionally have some fit quirks from what I heard, but from what I bought, they have great finish, and great quality made. You need to own one before knocking it.
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I have owned several and still own one. I just don't like to admit that at one time I was cheap and bought low quality firearms compared to my many other finer made firearms. I'll spend the money on an STI 1911 before a Norinco 1911 any day and the T97 is the ugliest abortionized firearm I have seen come out onto the market so far........ Right next to that straight pull bolt action wannabe AK47 released recently.
 
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mildcustom2 said:
I have owned several and still own one. I just don't like to admit that at one time I was cheap and bought low quality firearms compared to my many other finer made firearms. I'll spend the money on an STI 1911 before a Norinco 1911 any day and the T97 is the ugliest abortionized firearm I have seen come out onto the market so far........ Right next to that straight pull bolt action wannabe AK47 released recently.
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I just bought 2 of the 8.5" mag fed grizzly arms, still made by Norinco. And I put 260 rounds through one 2 days ago and it worked flawlessly, with only one fail to feed and 1 fail to eject and that could have been caused by the expanded shell casing. I'd say its prob a hit and miss with some norinco. From what I seen personally and heard reviews their 1911 are made well and function well, only big complaint there was the cheap cracked grips they came with. As for T97, I think the bull ups all look a bit weird, you say ugly. But I'm getting one of those and I'm trying to find a NR TAVOR, we'll see the quality when they arrive, not just guess.
 
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