In the last 60 days, there have been two AR-10s on Gunbroker. One went for a little over $8K, and the other went for just over $10K. I am glad I got mine for a reasonable $6k a couple of years ago...Bill

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and a Sterling AR-180 went for $2.2K

I sold my Specialty Arms Portuguese gun for 3500 about 10-12 years ago and doubled my money......should have sat on it a little longer it looks like.

I was watching the Hahn reweld.....kind of shocked what it went for

$2.2k... for a Sterling?

Three weeks ago I picked up a gorgeous Costa Mesa, complete with a MINT inverted post, meter marked, scope and mount for $1650.  It sat on the dealers table all day Saturday with no takers, and I purchased it at the end of the day.

Do want... but would definitely consult @HHollow before I would buy one.

The irony is that pre-may sample Dutch AR10 machine guns can be had all day for $10K.  Sometimes as low as $7-8K.  And these little gems are all original, uncut.

I was watching both and bid on the first and planned to bid on the second but I'll just enjoy my BRN-10 and stack of cash instead.  Not sure what my limit would have been but they both went high quickly

Let me tell you about my Howa...

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About 90% condition and bought it a year and a half ago or so?

Thought I was missing a 1 that was surely on the price tag. Well nope, it wasn’t.

Almost ran from the store waiting for somebody to yell “somebody stop that guy!”

Lol I remember your thread on that. You lucky bastard! Army & Navy gave that Armalite away.

Hahn welded receivers can be a risky proposition. I’ve seen them work fine and I’ve seen them not work at all. Jack Martiinez built a couple of AR-10’s with them-one worked flawlessly, the other kinda worked but the bolt carrier would drag inside the buffer tube a bit. For example when Lloyd Hahn was still welding/manufacturing AR-10 lowers a buddy and I bought two. When they finally arrived at my dealer I let my buddy get first pick because I owed him a favor. The lower he selected appeared to be the nicer of the two but unfortunately when my buddy dropped in the fire control parts he discovered the tolerances were off. Turns out when the two halves were welded together the distance between the trigger and hammer pins was too short. The hammer would cock and catch with the sear but would not release. Hahn had stopped making lowers by this time and that was that. I lucked out and the lower I chose worked just fine.

By the way, gun people have been using that term “reweld” WRT to fastening two receiver halves together for decades and it’s technically an incorrect term. Unless the receiver was welded, and the welded AGAIN its not a “reweld”. I used the term forever myself until Ron Smith once asked me, “What do you mean “reweld”? Unless its been welded more than once its a weld, NOT a reweld!” I had to admit he was right.

Maybe apples to oranges but remember reading a while ago a run of the mill Ford/Chevy sedan could be bought for $25K, if you bought the same car but all in new parts it would of been $100K. Always fun to window shop but a good way to keep track of current prices and when that rare bargain shows up you know that it's a bargain.

Great point. Never really thought about it.

Receiver mfg. in Redwood City, CA.  Wow...

I'm in process of building an upper just about like that for my BRN-10, with a different scope.