What is your favorite red rifle to bubba?
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Why don't you just sell them and purchase an AR-15 or some other platform that lends itself to modification? The rails types and accessories on the AR platform are endless. All you'll do by being a bubba is significantly reduce the value of your firearms. You'll get bored of them and on the EE they will sit until they sell for far less then you have invested.
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Id say cheap millsurps lend themselves great to modifications. Might lose some money but that's life, AR is great but restricted isnt.
All you do is destroy their historical and collectible value. There are AR alternatives, XCR, ACR, SU-16, etc. It seems to me that most of the guys that ruin these rifles do it just because they can't afford what they really want. That's where saving comes into it.
vz. 58 has a lot of plastic aftermarket stuff so that's a good option.
Historical and collector value on a random 1/millions refurb?
Xcr and acr are cool but pretty expensive and don't have a ton of mods if that's what you want. Su-16 is pretty crap in general and I have no urge to toy with one.
VZ58 are decent, and I will be picking one up at some point.
All of the Mausers and Enfields and M91s that cost so much money now used to be sitting in barrels in shops for ridiculously low prices and guys didn't take them seriously and destroyed them and here we are now.
SU-16 isn't a bad rifle at all, especially not after swapping out for the AR stock and forend.
everybody and their dog owns an AR 15..... Buying qismos and screwing them onto your black rifle is one thing..... but brainstorming, fabricating and carving out custom parts for your red rifle with your bare hands to make it unique, badass looking, and function better is totally in a different class. I could sell my SVT 40 Dragunov, SKS and my Vz 58 AKM clone for a bunch more than what i got into them ... but id never consider selling something i got that much pride and sweat into
an AR 15 with a flashlight on it ? no different than selling a Barbie doll.everybody and their dog owns an AR 15..... Buying qismos and screwing them onto your black rifle is one thing..... but brainstorming, fabricating and carving out custom parts for your red rifle with your bare hands to make it unique, badass looking, and function better is totally in a different class. I could sell my SVT 40 Dragunov, SKS and my Vz 58 AKM clone for a bunch more than what i got into them ... but id never consider selling something i got that much pride and sweat into
I understand the distinction between what you're doing and general bubba work. For example, if you put in hours of work and craft a truly magnificent sporting arm -- something you can pass down to your children with pride, I don't think anyone will ever accuse you of being a bubba. I understand the desperation of your work, you've been backed into a corner by ludicrous gun laws. I really want functioning, fireable Dragunovs and AKs in my collection as well.
Putting a tapco stock on an SKS and having the barrel cut down by a smith for no apparent reason.. well.. that's something entirely different. It's worse than the AR because it's a barbie doll thats had its head chopped off by your angry brother.
You have to appreciate that an SKS has the historical value of a Russian crow bar that was used in the second world war to clean the tracks of a tank. Made by the millions and well used.
Whether you are a car enthusiast modifying a roadster, or a biker modifying a Harley, you will lose money on the deal when you try to sell your baby down the road BUT you don's do it for the money. It's called personal satisfaction with a dash of pure enjoyment.
Collectors are by nature, arrogant in their belief that only they should decide what you should do with what you bought with your hard earned money.
If I were a collector who was in it for the money, I would relish at the thought that a whole whack of people were buying up these guns and modifying them so as to increase the collector value of the remaining guns.
If every person in Canada and the US that owned an SKS or a Mosin were to bubba it to death, that would only leave 10 million of them for collectors to fight over.
Just my thoughts,
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Forget it sir, you are wasting your time and bandwidth. It is a function of the universe that milsurps will be destroyed until only the wealthy will be able to afford them. So it was with the mausers/ enfields/ ross and so it will be with the mosin/sks.
Actually, mausers/enfields/ross are cheaper now then they ever were if you consider the buying power of a 2015 dollar to the buying power of days gone by dollars.
$30 dollars in 1965 was half a weeks wages and today $800 is less than half a weeks wages assuming your worth increased with time as well.
$30 dollars in 1965 was half a weeks wages and today $800 is less than half a weeks wages assuming your worth increased with time as well.
Median individual income is $27,600 in Canada making $800 considerably more than half a week's wages. Lets presume that half a weeks wages was $30 in 1965 for median individual income, in that case the $30 firearm is more affordable.
A $30 firearm in 1970 equates to $180 today or so. The price of a refurbished SKS.. no surprise.
