$3500 Mosin-Nagant ?

[Hodgie]

An original Remington or Westinghouse M-N in mint condition would probably bring that much.

I bet more like close to $5K

An original beater refurb PU sniper goes between $1200 and $1500.00 depending on if the scope is correct and matching to the rifles, non refurbs are higher.

[abner13]

I bet more like close to $5K

An original beater refurb PU sniper goes between $1200 and $1500.00 depending on if the scope is correct and matching to the rifles, non refurbs are higher.

I recall reading the DCM sold them in unissued condition for $2.50.

[JenniferG]

I recall reading the DCM sold them in unissued condition for $2.50.

Its probably a typo and the decimal is in the wrong place. $34.50 is most likely the price.

[RockIsland]

An original Remington or Westinghouse M-N in mint condition would probably bring that much.

I bet more like close to $5K

An original beater refurb PU sniper goes between $1200 and $1500.00 depending on if the scope is correct and matching to the rifles, non refurbs are higher.

What!?!?

I recall reading the DCM sold them in unissued condition for $2.50.

In 1937 maybe.

[Gunsnwater]

Which came first the rebar or the mosin-nagant?

[bogey1]

I'm sure it is nice for a Mosin... But it is still a Mosin.

I've owned 2. Paid under 300 for both of them together. My only regret is buying either of them at all.

-Zach

I remember the crates of 10 for 600

[raxar]

I remember the crates of 10 for 600

pfffft, I remember your choice of Romanian, Hungarian, Polish, or Russian m44 for $39.99

[abner13]

Its probably a typo and the decimal is in the wrong place. $34.50 is most likely the price.

My wrong! It was $3.00

The U. S. government sold its remaining M1891s as surplus during the 1920s, many to individual Americans for the princely sum of $3.00 apiece; they had cost the taxpayers $30.00 each when the government bought them from Remington and Westinghouse.

http://www.mosinnagant.net/USSR/US-Mosin-Nagants.asp

From Wiki;

United States[edit]
Russian three-line rifle, caliber 7.62mm (.30 inches): Due to the desperate shortage of arms and the shortcomings of a still-developing domestic industry, the Russian government ordered 1.5 million M1891 infantry rifles from Remington Arms and another 1.8 million from New England Westinghouse in the United States. Some of these rifles were not delivered before the outbreak of the October Revolution and the subsequent signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which ended hostilities between the Central Powers and Russia. When the Bolsheviks took over the Russian government, they defaulted on the Imperial Russian contracts with the American arsenals, with the result that New England Westinghouse and Remington were stuck with hundreds of thousands of Mosin*Nagants. The US government bought up the remaining stocks, saving Remington and Westinghouse from bankruptcy. The rifles in Great Britain armed the US and British expeditionary forces sent to North Russia in 1918 and 1919. The rifles still in the US ended up being primarily used as training firearms for the US Army. Some were used to equip US National Guard, SATC and ROTC units. Collectors have taken to calling these rifles, "U.S. Magazine Rifle, 7.62mm, Model of 1916", though no official source for this designation has ever been cited. Ordnance documents refer to the rifles as "Russian three-line rifle, caliber 7.62mm (.30 inches)".[42] In 1917, 50,000 of these rifles were sent via Vladivostok to equip the Czechoslovak Legions in Siberia to aid in their attempt to secure passage to France. During the interwar period, the rifles which had been taken over by the US military were sold to private citizens in the United States by the Director of Civilian Marksmanship, the predecessor agency to the current Civilian Marksmanship Program. They were sold for the sum of $3.00 each. If unaltered to chamber the US standard .30-06 Springfield rimless cartridge, these rifles are prized by collectors because they do not have the import marks required by law to be stamped or engraved on military surplus firearms brought into the United States from other countries.

[Hodgie]

What!?!?

How so?

[RockIsland]

How so?

$3,500-$5,000 for a Nagant?

How does that not fit the definition of illogical?