What standards do you use for grading surplus firearms?
I recently purchased one that the seller described as in excellent condition. When I recieved the weapon the stock and furniture were in excellent condition. The reciever had light rust pitting and the barrel was in good to fair conditon with the bore having some pitting. I put some elbow grease on it to remove the rust and the barrel to get the grunk out.
Dont get me wrong I am not expecting a prisitne surplus firearm. I have purchased surplus firearms before form companies like J&G Sales. They would have only rated this firearm as good.
If I would have sold this firearm I would have rated it as overall good with a fair bore. I assume most reasonable people if they rated the conditon as excellent would have advertised it as being in excellent condition except for the bore which is in fair condition due to pitting and the receiver which is in good to very good for a surplus arm due to light pittng and rust.
This surplus firearm is about 55 years old
am I being unreasonable?
I recently purchased one that the seller described as in excellent condition. When I recieved the weapon the stock and furniture were in excellent condition. The reciever had light rust pitting and the barrel was in good to fair conditon with the bore having some pitting. I put some elbow grease on it to remove the rust and the barrel to get the grunk out.
Dont get me wrong I am not expecting a prisitne surplus firearm. I have purchased surplus firearms before form companies like J&G Sales. They would have only rated this firearm as good.
If I would have sold this firearm I would have rated it as overall good with a fair bore. I assume most reasonable people if they rated the conditon as excellent would have advertised it as being in excellent condition except for the bore which is in fair condition due to pitting and the receiver which is in good to very good for a surplus arm due to light pittng and rust.
This surplus firearm is about 55 years old
am I being unreasonable?