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Odds are this was not a neckbeard . Classic is selling off the stuff that Century bought at the First Samco bankruptcy auction . There were pallets and pallets of gun parts and partial guns of about every surplus rifle on the market in the last 25 years . There were lots of parts to be built into complete rifles. There will be more Mausers coming as well . There were a lot of guns . There were crates and crates of barreled actions as well as crates and crates of stocks and other parts . These will hurt milsurp collecting for many years after they are sold.
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It won't hurt milsurp collecting. It is adding to the market, keeping it alive. Which due to import laws, is dying.
The problem is companies like Classic marking the price way up, giving other people the idea that their rifle is worth the same.
I couldn't tell you how many times I see a bubba sporterized milsurp priced at what an original would sell for.
Then the fact Classic doing the whole 'This MAY or MAY NOT be original, but they dun look nice, don't they' carnival tactics.
or the 'We got this private collection from a private collector' shenanigans.