Mosin Nagant market

[Soonerbillz]

Has anyone noticed the prices currently for these formerly inexpensive rifles?
I remember the days of 60$ buys... but them days are long over.
It's crazy out there.

 

[diyj98]

I remember Aztec was selling them for $49. I believe you could get free shipping if you ordered a pallet of them. One of the guys told me that the market was so flooded, that they wouldn't be importing any more until the prices started climbing back up again. I wonder how many may still be sitting in eastern Europe in storage.

 

[mauser9]

Yeah me too. Seems most milsurp guns have contracted "Mauseritis" and are commanding big bucks. Seems much collector interest these days plus people scoffing up anything that shoots. Know what you mean about the $60 buys. Friend bought a Type 99 in 7.7 back in 72 for $25 at an LGS.

 

[Drm50]

I remember distributor price 3/$99 on Mosins. I also remember when a box of 6.5 or 7.7 Jap in Norma, the only available at the time, was worth more than the rifles. Gun shops wouldn't take them on trade.

 

[Mainsail]

I paid $78 for my 1938 model about a decade ago.

I love shooting it.

If things get ugly and the friend whose wife doesn't want guns in the house suddenly decides he needs a gun, that's the one he's getting.

He's not getting one of my ARs.

 

[CZU]

I looked at a new Polish M44 carbine last week and the price on it was $600. Unissued, unfired, I could find nothing wrong with it except a small compression mark on the stock. It sold a few days later. I remember seeing these still in the mummy wrap for $99 not so long ago.

 

[GypsmJim]

Wow, all you guys got in late. $49 or $60 for a Mosin? Ridiculous prices.

When I first got my 03 FFL in about 1999, Mosins were $39 with a free leather ammo pouch and a bayonet. Century Arms had "U-Fix-Ems" for $16 with free shipping. The "broken ones" were usually as good as the regular sales, but it might be missing a screw or someting, or had a crack in the stock.

Mauseritis, yeah right. When CAI first got in a batch of 3 different variants, they were also $39 with a free leather pouch.

Before Covid, at the last gun show, guys were selling the pouch for $150!!!

I think I paid $69 for my Norinco SKS. A 440 round spam can of ammo was another $39.

I still have a bunch of the old catalogs just for nostalgia. The golden era of milsurps is long gone.

 

[moosedog]

My friend laughed at me when I bought bunches of these when I had extra cash. He doesn't laugh anymore.
Any quality Milsurp is going to make you money in a few years when supply dries up.

 

[mauser9]

Wise and truthful words spoken. I like to hang out on the Milsurp Forums and see often what matching or Bolt M/M 98k WW2 rifles are bringing. Won't quote any Gunbroker prices as I hate to cause anyone a coronary!

 

[Golddollar]

The ultimate Mosin Nagant was one I saw at a gun auction in Gettysburg. It was made in this country by Westinghouse. It made it over to Russia before the Communists repudiated the contracts with Westinghouse and Remington for rifles. It had Finnish capture marks and somehow made it to Gettysburg, PA. I thought nobody would have any interest in this gun and I figured I'd get it at a reasonable price. Wrong. It was over $400 before I could get my mouth open.

 

[Fishslayer]

I looked at a new Polish M44 carbine last week and the price on it was $600. Unissued, unfired, I could find nothing wrong with it except a small compression mark on the stock. It sold a few days later. I remember seeing these still in the mummy wrap for $99 not so long ago.

I had one of those back in '12. Paid $500 for it and sold it a few months later for $500 to finance my SR1911. I put 40 rounds through it.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Finnish and US production MN rifles have .308 bores; Russian and ComBloc rifles have .311-.313 bores. It only make a difference if you reload!

Ivan

 

[nutsforsmiths]

I bought a 1948 Russian M44 from Big 5 when they were first available. Came with cleaning supplies, 2 brown leather ammo pouches and a sling. $80 out the door.

 

[Drm50]

True story: I bought a really nice WW1 Mosin with some other stuff. It had been in a framed rack backed with green felt for years. A buddy of mine who was Marine gave me a Mosin plowed up out of the ground while they were building a FB in RVn. This gun had termite tunnels in stock and bore and bolt were rusted bad. I took shipping tag a wrote were it came from.
Took to auction. My really nice one sold cheap, the RVN pick up went for near $200. That was in 80s.

 

[Rudi]

Saw one at my LGS today, M38, $450! Crazy.

 

[dusty3030]

I've got a M44 that I thought was a lost cause from a flood we had in 2011. It stayed under water for several weeks along with some other guns.
I sprayed it down with WD40. Unfortunately, due to the hectic nature of trying to save your home and other more valuable things I didn't do anything else to it. It sat in my workshop for years and made the move with us to our new place a couple of years ago. With the extra time on my hands from COVID last year I was working in the barn and stumbled across it. Took it completely apart. Any rust was removed easily with bronze brush. The metal believe it or not was pretty much unscathed - even what was touching the wood! I cleaned the wood with mineral spirits and gave it a couple of coats of tung oil.
Dang thing survived a flood and was left neglected for 9 years and is no worse for wear. All the funnies we make about Mosin's being indestructible I declare are more truth than fiction. Here is an after pic. I didn't bother with a before because I really didn't expect it to turn out like this.

 

[LVSteve]

Finnish and US production MN rifles have .308 bores; Russian and ComBloc rifles have .311-.313 bores. It only make a difference if you reload!

Ivan

Nope. The US built guns have the same bore as those produced in Russia and France. Only the Finns messed with bore size, and even then only the M28/30 got down to .308.

Mosin Nagant Rifle Specifications

 

[LVSteve]

Saw one at my LGS today, M38, $450! Crazy.

Depends. One with the uncommon early stock might go for that these days, and any M38 with the Finnish boxed SA capture mark definitely would.

 

[Muley Gil]

Since my usual selling model tends to be "Buy high, sell low" , it is nice to know I finally know I bought something cheap that has increased in value. I have a M-N carbine, an SKS carbine and a FR8 that are worth more than I paid for them.

 

[GypsmJim]

My friend laughed at me when I bought bunches of these when I had extra cash. He doesn't laugh anymore.
Any quality Milsurp is going to make you money in a few years when supply dries up.

As far as I know, the supply dried up a few years ago. I read that all of the foreign arsenals that had them have been cleaned out. That just leaves what's already in the US.

I used to have an account with Century Arms and got periodic flyers. When I read about the end of the supply also coincided with a big increase in their wholesale prices.