Value of RC Mausers
- Thread starter glang1
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I'll say!
Right now they are selling in the 600 plus range depending on bolt configuration. The straight bolt ones are the cheaper but I'd rather spend the extra and have a proper bent bolt.
johnny1984
CGN Regular
Bought one earlier this year for $620. Bent bolt with all markings. Was told at the time they had one more shipment coming in this year. I can't imagine there are too many more left back in Russia. I can just imagine them turning a corner in some old warehouse and finding another stack of boxes though!
That would have been a great price.
RC's are really just worth their sum of parts - so a whole rifle is probably worth $600 these days (stocks sell for $300+).
Some people put premium prices on rare variants (uncommon codes, single rune rifles, sniper variants), which may or may not make sense.
RC's are really just worth their sum of parts - so a whole rifle is probably worth $600 these days (stocks sell for $300+).
Some people put premium prices on rare variants (uncommon codes, single rune rifles, sniper variants), which may or may not make sense.
Nobody is selling bent-bolt RC's for $600. They start at $625 (cheapest I have seen in the last month or so at dealers) for straight-bolt variants with peened marks and not-great bores. they go up a bit as condition improves.
Not saying those prices are reasonable or anything, but it IS the retail number. That $625 gun will cost over $700 by the time most buyers have it in-hand.
Not saying those prices are reasonable or anything, but it IS the retail number. That $625 gun will cost over $700 by the time most buyers have it in-hand.
Claven
Can you explain why many of these RC's are straight bolt? I thought all k98 from WW2 era were bent bolt.
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- Leduc County, Alberta
The Russians Captured many VZ24's in WW2 as well. They have straight bolts.
Some of the K98 rifles had bolts which were lost (purposely by surrendering troops, or by accident), or damaged, and thus the Russians refurbishing all those K98s, just took VZ24 bolts and stuffed them into the K98s. Since both rifle use the same standard length bolt/action, it worked well enough for these second line Russian rifles.
Certainly they are rare. Russian only captured millions of them. Now they are found with hellish bores. What a shame. Such good rifles stored the opposite way the Swiss store their own rifles.
That's unusually low right now. Wonder what theirs are like?
The hand select dealers are charging a lot more than that.
Various sources had stated that the russians are running out of mausers, and supplies have been picked over, as a result, these are slightly lesser condition, and more of a mix of bolts.
The one I saw was very decent but had peened markings.
What code did you snag?There were two available..but I grabbed the bent bolt one a few hrs ago
It wasnt an ax...
The listing is gone but it said 40 or 42 i think.
btw thanks for the tip sporterizer
I dont know much about K98s but have alwàys wanted one..and apparently these two havnt had the Nazi stampings blotted out.
The listing is gone but it said 40 or 42 i think.
btw thanks for the tip sporterizer
I dont know much about K98s but have alwàys wanted one..and apparently these two havnt had the Nazi stampings blotted out.
