Where did all the Mosin's go?

[STUMPJMPR]

I can't find an M44 for sale anywhere at a decent price.  I see 91/30's going at 79 and up.  A few years back you could buy mosins all days long for $49.

[S.S.]

they are in 1911Crazy's basement with all remaining ammo stocks!

[slayer]

I hear ya buddy. I should have bought 10 M44`s a few years back. They have all but dissapeared and the M91/30`s I am seeing are kinda looking yucky as of late. My M91/30 is about 2 years old and is pretty nice, but I went around to alot of stores and waited for the right one.

[moorepower]

I agree, $79 for a long gun is horrible!

[1911crazy]

they are in 1911Crazy's basement with all remaining ammo stocks!

But i did get one brand new russian M44 mosin dated 1944 on the receiver and inside the receiver.  This was purchased when the very first ak47's and sks's arrived here.  I shot it a few times.

Right now i'll bet that most are torn between buying another surplus rifle or surplus ammo,  heck i am.  I'm kind of happy to have a few surplups to shoot and play with.  Right now its better to have a few than none.

S.S.  How did you find out that i cornered the market on the russian mosin???
Dam i thought that no one knew....  Brother i wish i did many years ago i'd be sittin purdy in a short time...  I should of remorgaged the farm and bought ammo with the cash.  The military surplus ammo prices of $4.95 for 70rds of turk 8mm is long gone.  I seen it in my lifetime come and go.  At first the military calibers in suplus ammo was very expensive if you could find it. Then we had a flood of it for like 25 years+ and now its about gone too.

The yugo sks's are finally dry'd up, i'm about yugo'd out for the rest of my life.  The mosins seem to come in waves, like once we see them, then there gone and there back again.  There probably refinishing them on the boat on the way here.  But i'm sorry to say the supplies of mosins is going dry soon too which i'm sad to say.... If you purchased a mosin 91/59 or a 38 you were lucky.
We said it many times to buy what you want now before its all gone truer words were never spoken.

[securitysix]

I never got around to buying a 91/59, which I sort of regret now.  I did pick up an M38 at the same time I picked up my 91/30 (for $60 each, shipped, no less).  Never got an M44, but my dad did.  I figured "Hey, I've got the M38, which is just like having an M44 that doesn't stab you with the bayonet every time it recoils."  I'm sticking with that defense, just in case anyone asks.

I'm glad I got my Czech Mausers when I did, too (98/22 and Vz.24).  Wish I had bought more of that Turk 8mm ammo when it was cheap and plentiful.  I actually liked that it had about 10% split necks, too.  I could hand pull the bullets, dump the powder into a primed Remington or Winchester case, seat the bullet, and have non-corrosive ammo with the surplus charge and bullet.  I weighed the charges on 10 or so rounds as I transferred them over to the new cases and the charges were consistently the same.  Unfortunately, I didn't record what the charge weight was in my loading notes; not that it would have mattered since I had no idea what the specific powder was anyway, but it would have been nice to have a record.

I'm going to have to get some of that Romanian 8mm stuff that's floating around if I can ever get the finances to do so before it dries up.

[1911crazy]

The russian mosins M38 and the M91/59's seem to show up every now and then for some reason.  Just watch for them and save your pennies up to purchase them.  Some of these were in laminated stocks too.

I been thinking of doubling up on my mosin collection too because the prices are still cheap.  This way my kids can divide them up evenly when i pass on to the next dimention which i will only take my swede and my 1911 with me to the other side.