Posted: 5/5/2012 8:45:56 PM EDT
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Russian M44 carbine. All matching S/N and decent shape. The bore took a few cycles of Sweets 7.62, but doesn't look too bad after a good cleaning. $175 out the door.
I will probably refinish the stock just to give me something to do and to see how it turns out... 
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Looks nice, but damn have the prices really gone up on these I remember picking them up a year ago for around $100  Mosin carbines are damn hard to find now. Only a few on Gunbroker and I only saw two at the gun show, including the one I bought. The other was a Hungarian one for $225. The show was in Albuquerque, NM and I walked around it enough that if there were more I probably would have saw them. Aim Surplus had some for $200 months ago, so figure for $175 it was worth to snatch it up. |
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Looks nice, but damn have the prices really gone up on these I remember picking them up a year ago for around $100 Mosin carbines are damn hard to find now. Only a few on Gunbroker and I only saw two at the gun show, including the one I bought. The other was a Hungarian one for $225. The show was in Albuquerque, NM and I walked around it enough that if there were more I probably would have saw them. Aim Surplus had some for $200 months ago, so figure for $175 it was worth to snatch it up. Yeah that seems to be about the going rate for them now. I got lucky about a year and a half ago and got a near pristine Hungarian matching for $115 and a near pristine Polish with a Hungarian bolt for $115, my friend still hates me for that I had the money on the table before he even saw them and he needs a Polish to finish off his M44 collection. |
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Looks nice, but damn have the prices really gone up on these I remember picking them up a year ago for around $100 Your probably thinking of the 91/30, not the M44. yeah i havent seen a m44 for less than $150 in quite some time. even the 91/30 seem to be creeping up to the $120 area. |
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Looks nice, but damn have the prices really gone up on these I remember picking them up a year ago for around $100 I noticed the same yesterday at the show I went to 91/30s were around $130, more for hex receivers but the few M44s I saw were over $200 I paid $125 each last year at the May show for 91/30s |
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Looks nice, but damn have the prices really gone up on these I remember picking them up a year ago for around $100 I noticed the same yesterday at the show I went to 91/30s were around $130, more for hex receivers but the few M44s I saw were over $200 I paid $125 each last year at the May show for 91/30s Dealers are still buying them for $60-$80. 
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Looks nice, but damn have the prices really gone up on these I remember picking them up a year ago for around $100 Your probably thinking of the 91/30, not the M44. Nope, you must not of found the deals me and my friends find at gunshows, granted now they are around 200. The last I paid for one was a mint izhvesk m44 with a laminate stock was $175 about 2 months ago. |
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Looks nice, but damn have the prices really gone up on these I remember picking them up a year ago for around $100 Your probably thinking of the 91/30, not the M44. Nope, you must not of found the deals me and my friends find at gunshows, granted now they are around 200. The last I paid for one was a mint izhvesk m44 with a laminate stock was $175 about 2 months ago. Wow. I bought one about a year and a half ago for $179.00 at the local gun show. I have never seen them at the $100.00 price. I guess I'm just not living right! 
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