The old Garbage Rods can throw some pills though. Grabbed a 20 pack and wandered down to the range and threw down some offhand shooting at 100 paces on an 8" x 13" target... that lil old pencil bbl can throw 'em down range pretty good. Surprisingly so IMO
Insane price for Mosins rifles
- Thread starter cornelunc
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5 years ago at Canadian Tire
$150?...on sale? ...seems like a lot to me...they were $25. at Lever Arms in Vancouver not that long ago....around 1985, I think. But they still weren't selling...instead everybody was handpicking and buying up the Swedish Mausers at $45 (CG) and $50 (Husq.) All plus tax.
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The Lee single stage breech lock press I bought about 4 years ago for $109.95 now costs $219.99 at Bass Pro - primers I have with a 4.99 sticker on them now costs 9.99 per hundred - the price of items have doubled. Gas prices is going up 8.8 cents on April 1st. Here's what Google found for me:
"The price increase translates to an extra 8.8 cents per litre of gasoline for the regular consumer, according to the Canada Revenue Agency.
After the carbon price reaches $50 per tonne in 2022, it will begin rising by $15 per year until it maxes out at $170 per tonne of carbon pollution in 2030, according to the federal government proposal.
By 2030, that would roughly translate to a hike of 39.6 cents per litre of gasoline, as compared to what Canadians were paying before the tax was levied.
^^^this means that everything that is transported by boat/air/land will cost more and more going forward^^^ this Carbon Tax is the final nail in the coffin for us -
"The price increase translates to an extra 8.8 cents per litre of gasoline for the regular consumer, according to the Canada Revenue Agency.
After the carbon price reaches $50 per tonne in 2022, it will begin rising by $15 per year until it maxes out at $170 per tonne of carbon pollution in 2030, according to the federal government proposal.
By 2030, that would roughly translate to a hike of 39.6 cents per litre of gasoline, as compared to what Canadians were paying before the tax was levied.
^^^this means that everything that is transported by boat/air/land will cost more and more going forward^^^ this Carbon Tax is the final nail in the coffin for us -
5 years ago at Canadian Tire
Swiss K31 for $300...good luck today.
A $25 Mosin, even 35 years ago was usually a rifle with a poor bore.
When the Soviets and satellite countries first started dumping their Mosin variants on the market, they dumped the Fair/Poor/Good grade first. There were a few jewels, if you had the ability to sort through a lot of them.
I remember the first ones offered by S.I.R. and International.
Some looked unissued on the outside but the bores were badly pitted.
SIR had the first dibs on the Mosins that came into Canada, through International Firearms out of Montreal.
Mr Lever asked me to go and pick out a couple of hundred for his Vancouver store in 1980. What I found was not nice. Mr Lever passed on the first couple of lots.
They actually came into Canada first, then were shipped off to the US to Century, after passing inspections. Century distributed them all across the US.
China and Viet Nam had massive inventories of Mosins, so did Korea and a few African nations. All were upgrading to AKs. SKS weren't sold but mostly lend lease to nations/revolutionists requesting free arms.
35 years ago is longer than many on this site have been alive. That is a long time in the stream of today's time frames.
I remember Alan Lever's downtown store. You could handpick the rifles, but the bores were usually so packed with grease that you couldn't tell much, and no one seemed to know how to read a Swedish Mauser stock disc in those days. You could make sure you got a rifle with good wood and matching numbers though. And if you bought more than three (at $45. each) you could get a further discount....and no GST!
The $25. Mosins were in their own corner rack, but only a few at a time. I don't know about the bores, but they were very good on the outside, hex receivers with good blueing, with clean Russian markings. No one seemed to know about Finnish SA markings. (The scoped sniper Mosins were kept in a big glass case against the wall.)
re: "35 years ago is longer than many on this site have been alive"...So what? There are also plenty of people on this site who have been alive longer than that.
The $25. Mosins were in their own corner rack, but only a few at a time. I don't know about the bores, but they were very good on the outside, hex receivers with good blueing, with clean Russian markings. No one seemed to know about Finnish SA markings. (The scoped sniper Mosins were kept in a big glass case against the wall.)
re: "35 years ago is longer than many on this site have been alive"...So what? There are also plenty of people on this site who have been alive longer than that.
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Of course...as a retired university professor I am well aware of the various generations and their different "perceptions" ....I have seen them come and go....but again, "so what?"...this site is for everyone (including my son).
Midnight Rider
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- ......the Vanishing Point .
Like every thing , it is all about supply and demand . It was only about 2 or 3 years ago that Canadian Tire was blowing out their Mosin rifles for 169 per unit . The LGS here was selling their Chinese SKSs for 189 per rifle on sale a little over a year ago , with a regular price of 219 per rifle ; but that has all changed .
diabeticfreak
CGN frequent flyer
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- The fields of Ontario
We're already at $500 SKS's, just look in the EE!
you go on snooze and you lose.
