My local pawn shop has a beautiful Moisin Nagant with the right ww2 scope making it a real ww2 sniper rifle similar to the one used by Vassili Saitsev, if you havent seen this film drop everything and run to Wal-Mart and buy it for 9.95 Oh the rifle is 550 dollars but it is dated 1936 and looking thru the scope was absolutely magical.
There are a lot Mosin-Nagant "snipers" on the market right now. Unfortunately, most of them are not the real thing. Many are arsenal rebuilds that have had scopes and mounts attached. In other words, they are not original sniper issue.
1. There was tens on thousands of Russian Snipers, with thousands of female snipers. 2. If you watched the movie and than seen an interview with him that he explains what happened its totally different. 3. That snot faced kid ruined the movie for me 4. Why did the snipers name change in Soviet records? At one time it was Thorvald and another time it was Koning; which the Germans have no record of either 5. No concrete proof either exhisted, could have been a mere fabrication by the Soviet propoganda
There is a Mosin Nagant 91/30 sniper rifle for sale where I live at the moment for about £500 (damn cheap for england and it's in good nick aswell)
Mosin Nagants with russian scopes fitted in origin, with carrying bag and several clips were only 200€ a few years ago. Some of them where brand new. Nobody wanted them. After that war(?) movie, they cost now between 350 and 500, most often with a badly fitted chinese scope or a civilian one. Let's not talk about Mausers... And Garands have disappeared completely. :cry:
Maybe dissapeared in large numbers in market but the US army still uses them and I seen them get a rifle similair to the Garand(if not a garande I cant recall at the moment) on the show "Myth Busters". The US army still has them for special ocasions. I found a couple here http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/SearchResults.asp?. From the liks at world.guns.ru a source many members the forum are familiar with.
The US Army is receiving Garands that were loaned to other countries as military assistance. Greece is shipping a lot in right now. Most Garands are being sold by the Civilian Marksmanship Program who get's them from the Army. odcmp.com
Interesting. Also I think this year marks the last payments to America f rom the land-lease if I remember correctly it should be around the end of this year.
Exporting from the US is the hardest part. Very expensive unless you happen to be a large company who can absorb the cost over many units. Also a lot of government red tape to go through. Then you have to get an importer to ship to. They have to be registered (as a business) and submit their registration (in English) to the US government. Most export companies also own or have deals with the import companies to reduce costs on both sides of the ocean. Many countries won't allow military or semi-auto firearms to imported anyway.
We have only problems with some calibers in semiautos. Problem is there are few importers, and they raise prices a lot. Like 1200€ for a bolt action Remington 710 :x
No self-loading full-bores here, I have to stick with a bolt-action or a semi-automatic .22RF, No hand-guns either (unless it's pre-1919 and you have a section 7 license.) :cry:
While the Remington 710 is decent hunting rifle, it should not cost that much. That is a great example of what I mean about the cost of exporting and importing. The sad part is that they probably didn't make much of a profit either. Kellhound, If you ever come to the US, met me and I'll let you shoot my Garand and my other guns all you want to. That applies to anyone else here too.
If I ever win the lotto, one of my trips would be to one of those places there (in Nevada, maybe?) where you can shoot full-auto machineguns, from vintage gatlings to modern assault rifles.
moisson nagnants are still being sold for under 100 dollars here in california....sans scope..sks used to be common for about $160 ...i shoulda bought one then...sks ammo can be had for 13 cents per round
Yes I seen an SKS for $160 American with a few modifications inorder to comply with California state gun laws. I heard it is a decent hunting rifle.
Actually, the SKS is a lousy hunting rifle. They have very crude sights and lack luster ammo which makes them not all that accurate. A hunting rifle needs to be accurate to allow the hunter to make the cleanest and fastest possible kills.