OzeanJaeger
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I have one in the safe...inherited. I've never fired it or looked into reloading for it. I will say it's in very good condition, and nothing is wrong with the stock at all.
I don't think bayonets have been important since Stonewall Jackson's day.
It's too heavy to carry compared to nearly any rifle carried by any military today.
If they're a bargain now at $400, why weren't they a bargain at $400 just five years ago??
It's called herd mentality, "groupthink".
Suddenly a half decade ago, all these old military rifles that had been sitting in warehouses here, selling slowly, surely, and priced reasonably (for what they are- an old rifle) for the past fifty years became collectible. Gotta have one. " They're not making any more" is commonly chanted...
They "weren't making any more" as soon as five years ago, and were the domain of serious collectors, and plinkers. Then came Sandy Hook, and the great freak-out. "They're coming for our guns"....
Suddenly, anything that would shoot- cheaply at that time- was snatched up along with the countless thousands of tons of dirt cheap surplus ammo for them, as you couldn't get ammo for anything, anywhere.
Have we already forgotten when there was a year wait for primers and powders due to the craziness of the hoarders??
Rare and collectible rifles are exactly that, but most old milsurps just don't fall into that category. Crappy Turk Mausers that couldn't fetch fifty bucks just a few years ago are asking five times that.
Seems to be this mentality that just like stocks, prices can only go one way. We'll know in 5-10 years who was right.
Just like anything else, value is what someone's willing to pay for it when you try to sell.
" hmmm, that may have worked when you were two but now?" But they aren't worth it and I won't pay it and they have to sell it to me for what I will pay
But they aren't worth it.
But I want one and they are asking too much.
It wasn't the hoarders. It was the quasi wholesalers and retailers who kept us all bidding against each other on one website instead of sending product to store shelves. Everything you wanted was available. It was just all on a certain website going for seven times retail price.Have we already forgotten when there was a year wait for primers and powders due to the craziness of the hoarders??
It's too heavy to carry compared to nearly any rifle carried by any military today. I don't think bayonets have been important since Stonewall Jackson's day. They are nice curio and relics and a lot of fun but not very useful to carry while hunting or at war. If it is 50 yards from the truck to the blind it is one thing but that is hardly "carrying".
“...Too heavy to carry...”
Probably come as a shock to the Swiss who carried it around the Alps.
I'll guarantee that any Marine in WWII would trade their M1 with bayonet for an M4 without one in a heartbeat. Unfortunately they weren't invented yet. Regarding milsurps, I have a Swede, 96/38 (I think) that is smoother and lighter than the K31 and just as accurate, at least it was for me. The Euro sights on both are fairly crappy, IMO.