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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:34:25 AM EDT
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Back in the 80s, they were pretty cheap. I used to have a Shooter's Bible from the early 80s, I think. Living in very restricted Denmark at the time, I was fascinated by it.
 IIRC, perhaps about $400 - $500 ? |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:38:28 AM EDT
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If memory serves, one of the dealer's at the Detroit Light Guard Armory (where I worked at my dad's tables) had HK 91's for sale for about $650 or so. Was close to purchasing one, but never could scrape together enough pennies. Got a mini-14 instead
 , which sold for about $250 new at the time.This was about the '84 time frame... |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:43:17 AM EDT
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Taking inflation into account, they are only just a little bit more now.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:47:25 AM EDT
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Detroit Light Guard Armory??? That must have been... "Bill Goodman's gun and knife show, call a buddy, bring a friend...this weekend at the light guard armory there will be guns, knives and military items of all kinds..." I still remember those commercials. That jingle will be stuck in my head for the rest of my life. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:48:53 AM EDT
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I was at National Gun in Pasadena Calif circa 1988, NIB HK91s $750, and HK94s were ~$600(?). HK93s are fairly rare because HK didn't import very many before they were banned by GWB Sr.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:50:13 AM EDT
[#6]
For a Brand New HK91 in 1985, I paid $499.00
 The 93's and 94's were the same price |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:50:36 AM EDT
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1989, paid $699 from my HK93
Think I'm gonna go throw up. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:33:50 AM EDT
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HK 93, in 1988 paid $780 with 6 mags NIB. The gunshop cut me a deal because it had been on the rack for so long. He was griping that he would never carry the darn things again.
I haven't shot the thing since around 2001. It's just not that good a weapon.  |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:37:34 AM EDT
[#9]
Well shit, I just paid 3200.00 for a 91 with all the options.
I think I'm gonna go throw up
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:37:47 AM EDT
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musta been nice living in a time when you could buy MG's and there were more semi-auto choices then just AR, AK, FAL, and M14... |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:40:50 AM EDT
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The 91 used to sell for around $650. I bought mine for around $900 after they banned them, IIRC. H'mmmm, maybe I should sell it.  |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:41:41 AM EDT
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I paid $570 for my HK93 NIB at I believe it was Jims Pawn in Fayetteville NC back in 1983 or '84
Sold it a few yeras ago as it was worth too much to keep around idle. That and both my AUG's hit the "for sale" ads at a few gun websites. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:48:33 AM EDT
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My Dad loves to tell me how he bought his 91 for $400 in the early 80's, he usually does this when he sees me drooling over one marked $2000 at the gun show.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:52:54 AM EDT
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I bought a NIB HK-91 about 1 year ago for $1275 and sold it approx 3 weeks later for $2600
 edited to add: I already had one. Which is why I had no need for the NIB one. Here's mine 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:54:34 AM EDT
[#15]
Always wanted a 91 myself!
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:03:18 AM EDT
[#16]
I wish JLD could make an HK94, there just aren't really any reliable sources for them but the real thing (expensive!).
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:09:30 AM EDT
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My dad likes to joke with me about going into the hardware store as a kid (1950's) here in Iowa and seeing a dozen of those cardboard barrels full of M1 Garands for $40 and M1 Cabines for $25. He said that a few times his dad (my G'pa) would stop and ponder if he should have bought a few "here and there". Coulda woulda shoulda, eh?
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Posted: 4/4/2006 1:02:02 PM EDT
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In 1984 my buddy paid $450 for a HK91 with a 30 round mag, 2 twenty round mags, a cleaning kit, the telestock and the fixed stock, the manual and a plastic case.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 1:09:46 PM EDT
[#19]
Does HK still make them?
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Posted: 4/4/2006 1:10:13 PM EDT
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Wow... they go for that much now? I bought an HK91 for $400 in 1984... used, but only one box of ammo had been run through it (I knew the guy). I sold it about 10 years later for $1000, thinking that I made a great deal. I wish I still had it.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 1:14:12 PM EDT
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91 and 93 they don't make any more, and sold off the tooling suposivley. 94 sill lives on as an MP-5 |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 1:52:05 PM EDT
[#22]
From a 1983 issue of Combat Arms:
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Posted: 4/4/2006 1:57:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/4/2006 2:07:59 PM EDT
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I actually held a genuine PSG-1 in California, one time. It was 1989, and I was at the Turner's Outdoorsman in Riverside, CA on Tyler RD. Asking price was $1200.
I remember it was very heavy. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 2:15:30 PM EDT
[#25]
It must be nice to buy before the inflation for next to nothing....
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Posted: 4/4/2006 2:16:45 PM EDT
[#26]
For me at least, getting $400 back in 1985 was a lot harder than getting $2100 now.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:23:58 PM EDT
[#27]
Where are you guys seeing 91's for under 3k?
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:30:57 PM EDT
[#28]
 80% of the H&K 91's I see posted for sale online ( basic rifle - 1 mag / obvious a ton of accessories drives up the price ) are priced around $1900-$2400. gunbroker - auction arms - gunsamerica - sturmgewer etc Where the heck are you looking ? |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:34:40 PM EDT
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OMG...you just brought back some of the happiest memories from my childhood! Whatever happened to Bill Goodmans shows? I know people were getting mad at paying out the nose for parking and entrance, so they started going to Gibralter Trade Center, but I still think BG was a great show! |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:34:55 PM EDT
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If you want a 91 check out the JLD PTR-91, they make a superb clone and IIRC they bought the original tooling from a HK plant in Europe (Portugal or something? Can't remember). They start at about $700.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:38:46 PM EDT
[#31]
If you don't like that HK93 so much I will gladly take it off you hand for you. For $1,080 plus shipping.  There was a guy here that bought a 93 a few weeks ago for $800.I have the HK91,93and 94. Paid $1,650 for the 91 in 1997 $2,000 for the 93 in 2003 and $2750 for the 94 in 2004 Dad paid $450 for his in 1982 Too bad he never got into HK sears or RR MP5s 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:45:23 PM EDT
[#32]
I mean absolutely no offense, but are you certain it was a PSG and not an SR9T or TC? That's what I paid for mine in mid ban, NIB. IIRC, PSGs listed at 10K when they were first available, and they remain about here even now. Again, no offense, I am just asking and not playing "look what I know." |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 3:46:32 PM EDT
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I paid $995 for my HK 94, with retractable stock, in 1989. Bought it at Riley's Sport Shop in Hooksett, NH -
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Posted: 4/4/2006 4:01:45 PM EDT
[#34]
I might be wrong but when the PSG-1 first came out it was around $5,800 back in the mid 80s and climb to 10K in the 90's at the height of the ban they went up to 15K but now they sell for 14K Two were just bought on HKpro.com this year. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 4:27:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/4/2006 5:32:27 PM EDT
[#36]
That would explain it. The one I brought came with 20 new in wrapper mags, a folding stock and a regular stock, bayonette, bipod, claw mount and a bunch of other stuff that is all genuine HK. I guess that puts it right around 3200, which is what I paid. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 5:58:17 PM EDT
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If memory serves, he changed the name of his shows in an attempt to stymie a lawsuit or two. At least, that was the rumor going around back around '87 or so. I moved across the country in '85, and have no idea if his re-named shows met with any success. Thinking back upon my early years, my times working my dad's tables at the Light Guard Armory were some of my fondest memories, as cheesy as that sounds. With the spectre of nuclear war still around, the survival movement was in its heydey, and the HK-91 was the icon of the times. Gun shows on Eight Mile Road were the cool place to be. I got a kick out of Eminem making a movie about his life on Eight Mile. My Marines thought it was super cool that I dealed in guns there. Even had a "313" area code, heh. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 6:07:23 PM EDT
[#38]
Bought my 91 NIB for $633, including tax, in 1986 in WA. Sold it for $900 in Feb of 1994 because I thought I had orders to California where it was already banned. Orders got changed in July of 1994 to Colorado.
 Bought a replacement in 2002 for $1800. Will never get rid of it if I have anything to say about it. Now if I can only figure out how to put an MSG-90 recoil buffer in a 91 stock.... |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:35:52 PM EDT
[#39]
$400 for a 91 or 93 and $650 for a 94. I bought my first HK91 and 93 NIB for $800 around 1983 and remember feeling like a class A sucker. You could get a Colt AR-15 for about $300 then. I also remember wanting a HK94 but not wanting to pay $650. I remember thinking I'd get one if they ever got down to around $500. They never did.  Here is what they looked like NIB. 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:39:47 PM EDT
[#40]
it was sweet, wish i had bought more than i did,,,, |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:41:16 PM EDT
[#41]
HK discontinued the production of the 91, 93 and 94 in 1989 with the import ban as the 90 series was made exclusively for the US market. HK contined to make the G3 (the 91 is the semi auto version), the 33 (the 93 is the semi auto version) and the MP5 (the 94 is the semi auto version). Recently HK discontined production of the G3 and 33. They continue to make the MP5 but keep announcing their intentions to discontinue that as well. They also still make the HK53 (a shorter MP5 size version of the 33). And they still make the MSG90 and PSG1 which are both evolved sniper variants of the G3 platform. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:42:49 PM EDT
[#42]
Time is right but when they were introduced they were about $5,500. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:44:26 PM EDT
[#43]
That would be my guess. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 7:53:14 PM EDT
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I remember them going for $385, but it only came with one magazine.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:13:50 PM EDT
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I payed $489 plus tax in 1986 for mine, but i only took home $200 a week.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:22:33 PM EDT
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1981 I bought a HK91 for $650, HK sent me a factory rebate check for $50. I used it to buy two mags.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:45:11 PM EDT
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It had the slick barrel, no irons, and had that free pistol style grip on it, and the adjustable stock. Had a very high power scope on the claw scope mount. Might mave been that other one that H&K made the MSG? It's been a while. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 8:50:04 PM EDT
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This is funny as heck. Do you realize your post is the fourth offer I've had from this thread? WHY do people want to buy these things for so much?  The AR is far superior.I'll never sell it, it was my first duty rifle. (I stopped carrying the thing for work when the ban hit and the darn thing became worth more than the patrol car it was riding in) Maybe I'll give it to my niece someday. She thinks it looks cool.  Now, you want to talk a GOOD HK rifle, take a look at the short lived semi-auto hunting rifles they had around the same time. Those I really wanted but could not find.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:05:18 PM EDT
[#49]
Well it wasn't a PSG1 or a MSG90, neither use a claw mount. In addition both the PSG1 and MSG90 sold for much, much more than $1,200 when introduced. The price sounds like a SR9TC which uses a PSG1 stock and pistol grip. It was the rifle used in the movie "Sniper" by Billy Zane's character and looks quite a bit like a PSG1. The only problem is the irons which as far as I know all SR9 variants had, so did the MSG90. The only rifle I'm aware of that never had irons is the PSG1 but it never used a claw mount and it never sold for less than $5,000. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:08:18 PM EDT
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my pants just got tight 
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