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Posted: 6/24/2018 11:18:39 AM EDT
Welp I got my first antique, and in what seems to be a trend for me this year it was WAY under market price.
1898 Tula, Finnish marked. The rifle and bore is still covered in the dried up packing grease. Only real issue with it is the front barrel band captive screw has the bead broke off it. 
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Posted: 6/24/2018 2:43:20 PM EDT
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Nice. Think mine's like 1896 or something.
Throw a 3-9X on that thing & deer hunt w/ it this fall. No C&R mumbo jumbo to worry about. The receiver date is the value. |
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Posted: 6/25/2018 8:10:55 AM EDT
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Those are neat. I passed on one a long time ago. I was a Westinghouse. Was $150. That was when the 91/30's were $79. Thought I was getting ripped off. Bad move on my part to not get it.
The other one I missed but I was too young was a rack of Krags. They were still packed in grease. And I mean covered in grease at Woolworth back in the late 1970's. The wood on one I rubbed the grease off looked new. $25 each. Dad wouldn't get one for me. I had the cash from cutting lawns but Mom was a nurse and hated guns from working in the ER. |
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Posted: 6/25/2018 8:33:12 AM EDT
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The screw is broken because it is left hand threads
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Posted: 6/25/2018 5:32:25 PM EDT
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How much did you pay?
I passed up one for 300 last year and have been regretting it since then. |
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Posted: 6/25/2018 7:50:46 PM EDT
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The screw is broken because it is left hand threads That is a pretty common misconception, they are in fact right hand threads. Due to the way they are being used they need to be treated like left hand threads. Honestly, it would have been easier if they were left hand threads as then they would work like you think they should. |
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Posted: 6/25/2018 7:52:58 PM EDT
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How much did you pay? I passed up one for 300 last year and have been regretting it since then. Really sure? Well if you insist.... $220 |
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Posted: 6/25/2018 9:05:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Are you sure you want to know? Really sure? Well if you insist.... $220 
Nice pickup, man! I'd have jumped at that, too. I love me the old M91s. |
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Posted: 6/26/2018 7:53:59 AM EDT
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It has been the year of the m91 for me. Before this year I had only seen maybe 5 at gunshows around here in the last 9 years. Not sure why but they have been comeing out in droves this year. That makes number three I bought at 100 or more under marke value since the start of the year.
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Posted: 7/18/2018 9:03:45 PM EDT
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So I got around to making my new captive bolt and bead. Was rather surprised the bluing matched up pretty well even.
 BTW I can verify it is a 10-24 RH thread. Although bolt the bolt measured at the very bottom of the ANSI spec and I did need to run a bottom tap thru the band to clean the threads up enough for any 10-24 bolts to go. |
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