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$3000.00 SKS
Ricci.Wright
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and with 9 days to go. I had no idea this version existed. This will be an interesting auction to watch.
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That guy has some cool stuff. I like the spade bayonet.
Yep he does. I like the S&W 65 and 24. Wow, a Gerber MKII is over $400.00?!?! And the Valmet at $300.00 with a couple of days to go.
Wow, some really nice stuff!
So bakelight makes it the jungle version? Interesting, learn stuff all the time.
That is just STUPID!!!
Combat Vet VN
D.A.V Life Member
Don't care what year ...It is a SKS bought them in 94 for 69 dollars.
Yeah, we should have bought a couple hundred of them.
Once again you are confused about guns. You did not buy one like that for 69 dollars.
Sorry, but I just don't get it.
1957 was not long after the start of production. No one was exporting this model to the US, or even thinking about it. Yet, it has "Made in China" stamped twice. Why? Someone spent a lot of effort hand polishing every part, which seems like a big expense for a cheap rifle meant to be used by peasants & ill trained soldiers.
Just doesn't make sense to me. There's a story here.
Neal
I believe there is an export mark on the right side of the receiver so it might have been required to have the "Made in China". I don't ever remember having read or seen of an SKS with these features. The folks bidding aren't new bees.
It is a SKS.. no confusion, it could have a silver engraved stock and still an Sks
I have a 1971 Hemi Cuda would you like to see it?? What?? That's a 383, not a 426 hemi?? Same thing right??
Has Galen Govier vertified it?
He tells you the FS fighting knife is from 1979 & it's still bid to excess.
For an economy in tatters there are a lot of people willing to max out credit cards for gun stuff.
One of the failing parts fixing to happen. First unemployment.. then default in credit.. CC , car loans and home mortgages...
Take a look at the high bidders feedback.. Better yet run the name through the "google machine" that bidder and seller have quite a "history". Not unusual to see the same item on GI a month or so after that bidder or several others work their magic.. Buyer beware..
I don't think so.
What I see is a couple of folks who are spending $50,000 or more on guns from GB auctions every year for investment syndicates. They represent folks who have made fortunes, but believe that guns (not stocks & bonds) are a better place to put their money. I imagine these buyers getting "blue chip" guns & stashing them on shelves in climate controlled safe rooms. We don't really know who these people are, we only see their GB "names". My guess is that the buyers are retired gun dealers, for whom "buyers agent" is a part time job
Sometimes the buyers make mistakes. I saw one pay $1,300 for a Walther P1 police trade in with mixed serial numbers; I thought it was worth $350, tops. Another bought a Colt 1911 for $6,000 from a little brick & mortar auctioneer; she asked questions about it on the GB forum. Perry Shooter & I told her not only that it had been refinished, but who had done the work. (She got a partial refund.) Why would anyone pay thousands of dollars for collectibles without knowing what they are buying?
Neal