Have all the Milsurps dried up?

They have G43/K43, but you need to buy a minimum of 5000 at $800.00 USD a pop. Plus you do not get to pick them, so will have decent guns in the lot and some with broken stocks, missing bolts, rotted out bores. On top you will need to figure shipping and the related taxes & duties to get them here. Naturally these guns are rebuilt mixmasters with electro-penciled serial numbers.
 
I agree with JP. Sadly, the current main supplier of warsaw pact stuff (Ukraine) has decided that the remains of their German stuff is now worth more than it ought to be. Even RC K98k prices have gone up recently there.

Russia does not sell to the west currently due to arms treaties with the US. The stuff we see now through Century et al in the USA is all from the satellite states and the Ukraine.

That being said, Ukraine still had tons and tons and tons of stuff stored in salt mines. We haven't seen the last yet, so Mosin prices won;t rise much in the near term, except Finn stuff.

As for importers that still occasionally import milsurp stuff (ie within the last 2 years), here's a list I can think of:

-Marstar
-Lever Arms
-Wolverine
-P&S Militaria
-Collector's Source
-John Denner

And that's about it that I can come up with. Everyone else trades domestically of gets supplied from one of these dealers by and large.
 
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good lord... ill take 8 :eek: nah, make that 48 k98k's... they look a little rough, but still, a mauser is still a mauser.

now ofcourse theres tons of mausers and mosien's, yet what about garands and m1's carbines etc etc, ie, non german and soviet firearms, are they still to be found packed away.

ofcourse theres still yugo anc czech, but im mostly thinking of british and American, and to a certain degree italian, as far as Garands go.
 
Frankly, you must realise those Mausers on the rack are the better guns shown to importers, imagine what the bad ones really look like! Nothing worth the effort of being imported in that warehouse if you ask me.
 
for american milsurp the supposed motherlode is the phillipines, as at the end of WWII the returning GIs left everything in warehouses there....supposedly the US and Phillipine GVMTs were trying to unload the stuff so they could rent the warehouses out for profit and there were no takers 'cause the stuff was all "obsolete" thompsons/garands/BAR/1911/M2 etc in climate controlled warehouses...hmmmmm....
 
Some of them look OK aside from alot of finish wear. If any of them are all matching and not refurbed whermacht issue, I'd take one - surface rust and all. Depending upon price, of course. Can't be much worse than the Yugo and RC refurbs...

Worst case, WOO-HOO! Lots of Mauser receivers for custom projects... ;)
 
Claven2 said:
Some of them look OK aside from alot of finish wear. If any of them are all matching and not refurbed whermacht issue, I'd take one - surface rust and all. Depending upon price, of course. Can't be much worse than the Yugo and RC refurbs...

Worst case, WOO-HOO! Lots of Mauser receivers for custom projects... ;)
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agree, just from the pictures, i could easily pic 15 or so
 
cz52,
"and now I'm thinking...how the faack am I going to explain this to customs and CFC" -- Russia is just one hop away (over the North Pole). Move to NWT or Nunavut and ... Can't you drive those sleds?... :)
 
dddddd

Those mausers look an aweful lot like the ones we all saw in piles . Remember the pictures in time magazine, literally tons of weapons mounded up in piles to be distroyed??
 
We are starting to see a lot of mint shape Lee Enfields out west...They are finally being dugged up & sold for a really good price & then some.
Keep your eyes open cause they go real quickly.
 
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