CoalTrain49 wrote:
I have a few relics but they aren't "investments". My investments are in the stock market.
Amen.
CoalTrain49 wrote:
I have a few relics but they aren't "investments". My investments are in the stock market.
Stationary Smell wrote:
I didn't mean buying all the surplus rifles I could find, assuming the market for them will significantly increase. I was just curious if you guys thought they would hold, if not gain value.
Do you guys think military surplus firearms are a good investment? I understand there might be some Garands coming back to the states... but I'm talking surplus firearms as a whole. Over the last year I've acquired a few surplus rifles (an sks, a few Mosin Nagants, Hungarian Mauser, M95 Steyr Mannlicher, Polish PA-63, ect.) and I'm curious if you think firearms like these might be decent as an investment... or maybe I should sell a few?
Don't forget to fund your 401(k).
Recognize that your heirs probably may not appreciate what you have, and might just sell them for pennies on the dollar.
My investments are in the stock market.
Those $40 Garands that were advertised in 1962 (or that were sold at Sears, Western Auto, etc.) were almost certainly rewelds, since Garands had not yet been officially released, except in small numbers to verified competitors through the DCM. (I myself bought such a reweld, unknowingly, in about 1968. I still have it, to remind me of what it was like in those days.) It's fair to say that the value of rewelded Garands has not kept up with inflation.we can even go into anything that was advertised in the back of a gun rag in 1962. $40 Garands
But, for someone buying into the hobby today, can we really say we'll see the kinds appreciate we did back when the market was just being flooded with these items? I don't think really so - yes milsurps will continue to appreciate, and the $79 Mosin of years back is now a $250 item ... but will a Mosin be a $500 rifle a few years hence?
fpgt72 said:Bet that hurt pretty bad a few years ago....have you recovered yet....unless your last name is rockefeller I doubt it.
fpgt72 said:tell that to the guy that has the Colt Python, or 1970's Model 29
Bet that hurt pretty bad a few years ago....have you recovered yet....unless your last name is rockefeller I doubt it.