::pull out Milsurpaholic chip:: I just let go of 2 mausers and one enfield from my inventory....so I am making progress

Tsk Tsk, you're supposed to be stocking your safes to overflowing capacity with these! But I do understand, there are some I have I think I will be getting rid of some time soon.

I went a bit crazy on bolt guns for a while. I think I got upto about 18 milsurp bolt guns at one point. I might have shaved that down to around 10.

That's about what I have now give or take.

I figure I would rather have fewer guns that I shoot more, then a bunch of guns that never come out of the safe. However I am young with not a lot of income...I am sure the disease will return in full force when I start making some good cash

Ditto.

So, any word yet?

you mean whether I bought it or not?

haven't sold anything yet....but from the consensus on this thread I got the notion that it was not a good idea. I mean I could buy it if the shop is willing to return it if it is non-functional, but nearly one grand for a reworked gun of unknown quality/manufacture is probably not the best use of my money.

No I mean't on what your mauser was worth.

Good choice.

For one grand you can get a full size Garand of known good vintage, with brand new wood, brand new high quality barrel, newly re-parked and the all-important CMP paperwork that says "Legitimate" like no other way does. Gotta love the CMP Special Grade.

-Hans

oh yea, well once we established over at surplus rifle forum that it indeed was a Moroccan mauser we settled on the fact that while it is indeed quite rare as far as mausers go, it is relatively obscure meaning that there is not much of a collectors market for it. So while it should be worth around $1500 finding someone to pay this is going to be hard because there is so little information out on the Moroccans. Which kind of sucks because people will easily pay $700+ for a swedish M/42 but that is because they have developed a following. So I think I am just going to keep it as a very nice compact carbine, as selling it is not really worth.

I imagine an appraiser would not be able to give me much in the way of answer either. If myself and the people at surplusrifleforum have a hard time identifying the rifle, then a regular appraiser probably would as well. I bet I could make some coin if I sold it to one of those online auction houses, but whatever.



I already have a garand and a pile of ammo from CMP

Just really wanted a tanker like the one in the shop, but what I do not want is headache, and it sounds like the chances of that happening with a reweld of unknown quality is pretty high.

Well i'm glad you're keeping it. I suggested you sell the other stuff first anyways.

working on that as we speak

I was lusting after a KTR-03 ( vepr version), but now I am not so sure. I am kind of wanting to have some spare cash around for when firearm deals popup in this excellent buyers market.

A sound idea. Right now i'm trying to save up to get one of these;
http://www.militarygunsupply.com/shop2/ ... cts_id=133

actually so am I. I was ready to buy one a few months ago, but they have been on such a waitlist that I gave up. I am sitting on quite a bit of 7.62x25 right now so

I am a bit leery of buying one of these of gunbroker due to the nature of the design. If someone was not impressed by theirs enough to sell it, chances are I do not want theirs either. This is one of the few times that I would rather buy straight from the manufacturer because there is a good chance of getting one that doesn't work 100% at first ( seeing as how they basically redesigned the entire rifle).

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Also i've only ever seen one for sale at a store/show and it was $900, which is basically what this will be once shipping and adding a drum mag come into play. I don't care so much about the waiting list now because I don't have the money, but hopefully they will be in stock when I do. I'm sitting on some surplus 7.62x25 because the cz-52 I have doesn't seem to like it. So I say to hell with the hand gun, I want the burp gun

sounds like we are of two like minds. I am selling my two Cz-52s just because I do not have as much fun with them.

Did you have an reliability issues with yours? Also, have you heard the stories about them being able to go through 3 heads in a row?

no problems with mine so far, they have all run perfectly. I bought romanian ammo I think, and thats what they have been running on. However I also bought some other stuff on stripper clips which looks to be in worse condition ( lots of surface corrosion), so I am weary about that stuff.

I got whatever comes in a grey, tin, spam can. I admit the reason I got it was the cheap ammo.

yea penetration is pretty good on them, I just am not as fond of the CZ-52 platform as a defensive arm. To get it up to snuff I would have to

-add new sites
- buy new grips
- add a slide release
- fabricate a new more functional slide release
- add anti-friction magazine coating

by that point I am investing $500 into a $200 gun just to get it up to shape. Now it would be a sweet pistol by that point, but eh?

frankly I would rather just invest in a 7.62x25 carbine by that point.



mine came in a tin can wrapped in paper and tied with string( 20 round packages). that has been the good stuff so far.

Yeah and I don't like how you can't dry fire it. I don't normally do that with my guns, but I feel I treat the 52 with more caution for fear of it breaking.....I don't like feeling that way with a gun.

its just poor ergonomics, the gun is built real solid, but it would never be my go to gun.

Mine either. Now the cz-75, I've heard great things. I have a baby eagle .40S&W, which IMI basically took the design of the 75 and redeisgned it, and I love it.