Milsurp getting overpriced?

Yessiree - supply and demand. Sites like this one have also sparked alot of milsurp collecting interest which also drives up prices.

Best places to look these days are rural "hole in the wall" gunshops that aren't online.
 
You got it. Even lowly Carcanos and Mosins are getting up to the $200 mark now...

You find the odd bargain enfield etc for $150 now and again.

I actually picked up an all matching (except bolt) Canadian Marked No1Mk111* for $40 last summer :)

At that price, you don't even think about it!
 
SKScanuck said:
Ix-Nay on the old country gun shops..no guns there

Your giving away all the secrets...
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I rolled out of a certain spot with a really nice old mossberg .22 for peanuts this week.......
 
Claven is right, supply and demand. I love milsurps, one of my most favorite hobbies. I almost always pay well over what is considered "market value" simply because I love milsurps, it's a passion. It's nice to know what something is worth, but that's not why I collect. Prices have definitely risen, just like everything else I suppose.
 
fat tony said:
I haven't been to many gunshows recently, in Nova Scotia, Gunshows have apparently been declared the root of all evil in civilization, but the prices you see for milsurp seem a little excessive, but what do I know? I guess it's simply a matter of supply and demand??
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Don't wait for the return of "Back to the Fifties Prices" that you see in old issues of The American Rifleman. It's not gonna happen.
If it does, let me know when gasoline is 5 cents a gallon!
 
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My first little job in the early 60's paid 65¢ an hour. I bought two Czech capture /rework 98's for about $35 each in 1965. Now I'm paid about $25 (38 times as much) per hour and can buy very nice milsurps for $200-400, or less. Last year I bought a very nice LE #5 for $200 and a nice old Swede 96 for $150 at a gunshop. An old fellow told me he bought a few LE's at Farmer's Supply years ago in Winnipeg for $5 each. I wish I would have not spent so much on beer and gas back in those days!!
 
- In 1972, I bought a new in the grease Savage made No4 MKI* for $20.00 CDN from International Firearms in Montreal. Last year, I saw one in comparable condition at a show and it sold for $500.00 CDN.

- In the April issue of Gun Access there is a milsurp collection up for sale, I think I have been selling my guns way to cheaply.
 
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What happen was people who for years never bothered with milsurps finally relized what they were missing, and what the rest of us already knew, milsurps are fun and cheap to shoot.
 
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fat tony said:
I haven't been to many gunshows recently, in Nova Scotia, Gunshows have apparently been declared the root of all evil in civilization, but the prices you see for milsurp seem a little excessive, but what do I know? I guess it's simply a matter of supply and demand??
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there will be a gun show at the michelin social club in granton pictou county just outside of newglasgow on april 1&2 usually a pretty good show simular to the truro show if you were ever to that one.
 
JP said:
- In 1972, I bought a new in the grease Savage made No4 MKI* for $20.00 CDN from International Firearms in Montreal. Last year, I saw one in comparable condition at a show and it sold for $500.00 CDN.

- In the April issue of Gun Access there is a milsurp collection up for sale, I think I have been selling my guns way to cheaply.
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HA!!! Then you'd know as well as I do, that they also had Johnsons Model 41's for sale at the same time for around $200, if memory serves me correct. I remember getting a real nice M1 Carbine from them, WWII issue made by GMC and it cost about $80... came in mail, and I think I was 16 when I got it... Oh those were the good old days... :D :D :D

Cheers
Dean
 
Actually the Johnson's were less than a $100.00, but they came out of Dutch Indonesia so fairly rough.
 
fat tony said:
I haven't been to many gunshows recently, in Nova Scotia, Gunshows have apparently been declared the root of all evil in civilization, but the prices you see for milsurp seem a little excessive, but what do I know? I guess it's simply a matter of supply and demand??
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As Bobc says, Pictou (Granton), Truro and Waverly (twice a year). Check Events once in a while, there is usually good prior notice for the shows here in the Maritimes.

The prices only seem high to me compared to my memories of days gone by. Its like when people talk about prices back in the 1950s. I usually think of 1993 or so, Centurys last catalogue. My mind is stuck in those pages, 28/30s for under 200$s, M95s for 50$s, oh dear gawd 8X56R for 25cents a round :eek:

The prices I see today arent that bad in comparison, I don't feel anyway. Sometimes I see a clunky #1mk3 or the like for 300$s and just about pass out, but thats my memory playing tricks on me I suppose :(
 
Swiend said:
Who'd think there would come a day where a $650-$700 Garand would be the norm? Man, I missed the $200 Garand boat!
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I remember when I bought my $400 Garand people said I paid a little too much - I said I bought it too soon. Guess I was right!
 
kjohn said:
My first little job in the early 60's paid 65¢ an hour. I bought two Czech capture /rework 98's for about $35 each in 1965. Now I'm paid about $25 (38 times as much) per hour and can buy very nice milsurps for $200-400, or less. Last year I bought a very nice LE #5 for $200 and a nice old Swede 96 for $150 at a gunshop. An old fellow told me he bought a few LE's at Farmer's Supply years ago in Winnipeg for $5 each. I wish I would have not spent so much on beer and gas back in those days!!
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Interesting take on the wage to price comparison. Something to consider, for sure.
Off topic, but I have often compared what has happened to concert ticket prices. My first job, as a labourer paid about $9 per hour. A concert ticket was about the same price. 25 years later, as a journeyman, I earn about $27/hour, and any good show is about $100!

Back to guns again, I bought a Snider-Enfield maybe dozen years ago, paid about $400 for it. I told some old guy, he said that in the 50's one of the gas station companies was selling them for $5 with a fill-up!:eek:
 
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