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Vet bring back SKS
matwor
Member Posts: 20,594
I believe Johnny is Rotten, check out his user name from flea-bay in his description. Daddys sacrifice all but forgotten.[xx(][V][xx(] Makes me want to puke.[xx(][xx(][xx(]
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=41816841
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=41816841
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NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
If you captured them, they are priceless. At least, they would be to me.
I have a handful of guns that were passed down from Dad, two grandfathers, and an uncle. None are particularly valuable, but they will remain with me until it's time to pass them on to my sons.
The first SKS I ever saw was a captured gun, in the late 1970s. At that time, you couldn't get ammo for it, so it was worthless as a shooter. I think the owner sold it for about $200.
I asked the GI, I think he was a Spec4, what kind of rifle it was and he told me it was a Chinese rifle. I rememeber thinking that it looked like one of the rifles used on the movie Planet of Apes. I had been pestering my dad for months to ID the guns used in the Apes movie and didnt realize they were some kind of prop gun.
Neal
Not always true.
I can think of two instances that friends of mine gave the stuff away so they wouldn't be reminded of it anymore ... and both had kids. They didn't see it fit enough to remain with them one minute longer.
A plumber - who we didn't know/was just out on a call - gave me a Nazi battle flag from the top of the Augsburg city hall while the battle was still raging on below him. Has capture date on it at the top. I was 12 and showed a great deal of interest in his recollections of Normandy (landing) and he went home and got it for me. I have no idea - other than that -why he gave it to me. I still care for it. I used it as part of a Nazi hand gun presentation photo here once.
Go figure.[8D]
SADLY...one of the last pistols I picked up belonged to the SON of a police officer who had passed away.
His dad carried this Colt Ser 70 for most of his professional career as a cop and when he passed away the son wanted nothing to do with it.
So much for family pride!
Maybe if more grandsons and granddaughters remembered what really happened to their ancestors that fought/bled/and died for the freedoms we have today they would turn out to be better/true Americans.
Matwar and all of you others who are concerned about my auction. Just so you know, my father was a twenty year vet whose "sacrifice" ultimately took his life due to agent orange and diabetes from drinking bacteria infested swamp water. I had to raise a family when I was a teenager because that war took him. I am a Texan and a conservative I want him to be remember in other ways. He is gone and I do not want his grandson heir to remember horriffic tales told through a rifle. I remember my fathers sacrifice and all of the other vets. Before you judge me, get your facts straight, I am looking to find this rifle a good home where it will be appreciated and put the proceeds into my son's savings account. I am sure his grandfather would have wanted that.
If that's true, why don't you sell on Gunbroker rather than on Ebay where this auction and your account will be revoked?