Old milsurp flyer from 1975

Those Lugers were actually the Portugese contract guns, very pricey pieces today. Joe Salter has one for sale at $2,695.00
 
Gewehr 43 for $90. Even with inflation, that beats the heck out of the $2000+ for Vopo re-works nowadays.

Anyone got a time machine ?
 
How about this deal

Hi Guys,

I have one even better in my old catalog literature.............


ALBION ARMS PETERBOROUGH Circa 1959

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Cheers

B.
 
No 4 sniper for $45....even with inflation taken into account, how much did the last one go for on the EE ?

Well atleast there are no Gewehr 98s to torture me :D.
 
Awwwww, man... I NEED me one of those No1 Mk5 Enfields for my collection!!
20 bucks..good lord, dumb,dumb,dumb.... four cases of Ex !!
Dumber than a bag of frigging walnuts. Arrrghhh!!!
And a RCN Ross!
 
I bought one of the P17s for the $49;95 it shoots better then some of the new rifles I have and that is with the old peep sights.I have allways used it to shoot off old ammo I picked up for the cases to reload.
 
chofo said:
I was just doing some cipherin' ....

With tax, that Luger would come to $297 ... now, I remember that summer we made $4.25 an hour down at good old Thurso Pulp & Paper, and that was unbelievable money for a student back then.

So, it would have taken 70 hours to buy it. If a decent wage today is, say $25 an hour...that frigging Luger would be $1800 !!!

Guess it wasn't much of a deal, to think of it in those terms. About the same price today??? Too bad that 4 inch barrel is SOOooooo evil !!! Minute you pick one up your all of a suddenly a friggin Taliban-totin' Al Qaida operative... or in some red-neck, nutbar " Mullisha" . Geezus wept.
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Your math is a bit off. $25 an hour is not a decent wage for a student summer job. More like 12 or 13 would be a smokin good summer job. Even still, 8-900 bucks for an uglyass luger :eek: better than 3 grand.
 
I remember those flyers. I bought my first handgun, a minty walther PPK with holster and magazines for $150 back in 1985. I was smart enough to buy it and then dumb enough to sell it to my brother on the eve of c-68.
 
i wasn't around at those times, but i don't think the prices are anything special considering the wages of the time. what is special is the selection.
 
You are no better off in 1975 or now, you're in the same boat as today.
You only had so much disposable income, you still needed money for gas, groceries, power, water, beer, mortgage, etc...
 
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