Wagner Finds Antique Weapons In Ukraine's Underground Weapons Cache

Juster said:
The Ukraine supposedly have MP-44s too, we could get Colt Canada to do a swap, so we could pay for a SA20 and get a Thompson, to support Justin's spending.
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The you are wrong. These were sold in first place decades ago to high bidders resellers from Western Europe. Even movie studios sold their single specimens to shady collectors from Europe and Russia. At certain point there was a literal hunt for every known StG in Ukraine. These days most of StGs in Ukraine are in the hands of private collectors and actually many of those collectors actually went the other way - imported matching original condition items reworked into semi-auto from Europe.
Soviets never cared for historical artefacts, they kept guns to arm army and population. Too painful were the lessons they learn when their Nazi buddies turned against them. Soviets made special crates, serviced, repaired, refurbished, inspected guns on regular basis to be able to use the by themselves or to "spread seeds of freedom" all around the world. They did not care about history preservation or resell value. Funny that they even refurbished tons of ZB-30s, most of them had full sets oforiginal accessories, meaning they were captured in original condition in original boxes. Yet, they were all disassembled, parts inspected and indiscriminately mixed, then assembled with force-matching. Because they never had a procedure "to preserve original factory condition matching firearm" I guess.
 
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grelmar said:
Anyone remember that game show from the 80's, where the contestants got to run through a grocery store with a shopping cart, and whatever they got across the finish line in under 5 minutes, they got to keep?

I'd need more than 5 minutes in that salt mine. But oh, what wonders I'd figure out how to get out if I had an hour or two.
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I'd WANT more than 5min, but I'll take 5min over 0min...
 
The late Gary Cole of Cole Distributing in Kentucky was one of the first to import guns from those Former Soviet Bunkers. Mauser K-98 rifles, Nagant revolvers, tsarist Colt 1911 pistols all handpicked by him personally during his many trips to Ukraine. I remember once stopping at his wharehouse near Bowling Green with my friend Dennis Kroh coming back from the Tulsa Gun Show and Gary showed us several SS marked K-98 rifles and Tzarist Colt 1911 pistols he had found in crates in one of those Bunkers.
 
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