Buying a crate of 20 mosins?
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Dealers will sell a crate of rifles. Probably with a discounted price of $160-170 per rifle and all the kit, so still about $3200-3500. Pick up is best as the crate needs to be shipped by truck and will be quite expensive. Try Tradex/Westrifle etc.
With the Long Gun Registry done this should not be a problem, when the registry was still around they may have not approved the transfer. I know I got quite a bit of grief when I tried buying 2x P38's. The couldn't understand why I legally needed two. In the end I got my collectors status (after a home inspection).
With the Long Gun Registry done this should not be a problem, when the registry was still around they may have not approved the transfer. I know I got quite a bit of grief when I tried buying 2x P38's. The couldn't understand why I legally needed two. In the end I got my collectors status (after a home inspection).
I did not have a home inspection when I applied, is it random ?
Unless you're doing this as a group thing with a bunch of buddys I have to wonder "why?". You'll get a crate of rifles that all come from the same time period and quite likely from the same maker.
On the other hand if you buy them individually you can pick up examples of pre war or even each time period from the originals up to the last of them and pick up examples from the various armories. Seems to me that this would be a lot more fruitful.
....unless you simply want to be able to lift up the lid and bask in the heavy miasma of cosmoline that wafts forth.....
On the other hand if you buy them individually you can pick up examples of pre war or even each time period from the originals up to the last of them and pick up examples from the various armories. Seems to me that this would be a lot more fruitful.
....unless you simply want to be able to lift up the lid and bask in the heavy miasma of cosmoline that wafts forth.....
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Unless you're doing this as a group thing with a bunch of buddys I have to wonder "why?". You'll get a crate of rifles that all come from the same time period and quite likely from the same maker.
On the other hand if you buy them individually you can pick up examples of pre war or even each time period from the originals up to the last of them and pick up examples from the various armories. Seems to me that this would be a lot more fruitful.
....unless you simply want to be able to lift up the lid and bask in the heavy miasma of cosmoline that wafts forth.....
Maybe saving them for the future when they're 10x the price? It'll take along time but eventually it will happen.
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....unless you simply want to be able to lift up the lid and bask in the heavy miasma of cosmoline that wafts forth.....[/QUOTE]
That would do it for me.
In the 60s and 70s, I didn't bother with $10 Lee Enfields. In the mid 70s, I turned down all the Mausers from South America that I could carry at $45 each by the crate. Who wanted that stuff?
So now I would like to squirrel away a box of these old rifles just for the hell of it.
By my reckoning, they would do as well as my RRSPs are doing. They will never be worth much in my life but what the hell, they will keep up with inflation.
....unless you simply want to be able to lift up the lid and bask in the heavy miasma of cosmoline that wafts forth.....
[/QUOTE]That would do it for me.
In the 60s and 70s, I didn't bother with $10 Lee Enfields. In the mid 70s, I turned down all the Mausers from South America that I could carry at $45 each by the crate. Who wanted that stuff?
So now I would like to squirrel away a box of these old rifles just for the hell of it.
By my reckoning, they would do as well as my RRSPs are doing. They will never be worth much in my life but what the hell, they will keep up with inflation.
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....unless you simply want to be able to lift up the lid and bask in the heavy miasma of cosmoline that wafts forth.....
That would do it for me.
In the 60s and 70s, I didn't bother with $10 Lee Enfields. In the mid 70s, I turned down all the Mausers from South America that I could carry at $45 each by the crate. Who wanted that stuff?
So now I would like to squirrel away a box of these old rifles just for the hell of it.
By my reckoning, they would do as well as my RRSPs are doing. They will never be worth much in my life but what the hell, they will keep up with inflation.[/QUOTE]
That's a slippery slope. It would only make sense if the price was right.
The question becomes, what's the right price?
If you get a quote shoot me a pm. I might be interested in this investment. Free of capital gains tax so it's already looking quite lucrative, and no commission paid to my adisor. So far so good.
At my point in life I'd never see more than a slight return on such an investment. I'm not at the point where I won't buy green bananas but I can see the day coming even with my old guy eyesight...
Besides, I refuse to buy a motorcycle I can't ride, a car or truck I can't drive or a firearm I can't shoot. And much of the appeal of buying Mosins by the crate would be for the next owner down the line to get one wrapped up in the brown paper and sticky with cosmoline. Knowing that he was the first to see it cleaned up since the last armorer dipped it and wrapped it up.
Besides, I refuse to buy a motorcycle I can't ride, a car or truck I can't drive or a firearm I can't shoot. And much of the appeal of buying Mosins by the crate would be for the next owner down the line to get one wrapped up in the brown paper and sticky with cosmoline. Knowing that he was the first to see it cleaned up since the last armorer dipped it and wrapped it up.
Where did you source your crates?
45 yr ago I bought 2 crates of p14's. Price went up by $350 a rifle, but wouldn't call it a great investment. At the time we were wrecking them for magnum actions. They were $40 and a Brevex magnum was $900+. Sold the last few to collector guys on here. Turk mausers were $29 25 yr. ago in the US. I thought they were junk and passed them up. Mark
