Warning do not go to a gunshow when.....

[kjeff50cal]

Warning do not go to a gunshow when..... you want a gun elsewhere. I was going to go Monday to that Pawnshop where that Finn M39 (for $99) was to bargain with the owner as to the price.... Well I went to a gun show and a friend (and gun store owner) had my number as it were. As I looked over the various offerings I noticed about 10 what proved to be rearsenaled M38s for $99 bucks. They were from 1942 to 1944 with excellent wood and all of their tack (cleaning kits slings etc.) I did not know who were offering them so I asked the seller in the next booth. He said that him down the way.... turns out it was my friend from the Bible Book/Gun Store. He said that pick out any one (I chose a 1944 with nice wood, M44 stock) and just give me $90 bucks out the door    :grin:   :grin:  :grin: . since I limit my self to only one firearm (that is haaaard     :wink:  ) I will have to leave the M39 where it is for time being. I have not checked the M38 (Izzy, all numbers match) out for cleaning but I know after a cursory inspection that the dreaded cosmoline lurks everywhere. The down side is it has been counterbored :roll: .
kjeff50cal

[1911crazy]

Your plans changed for now it happens all the time to me I call it my collecting direction I go looking for something to fill a gap in my collection and come home with everything else but what I wanted.  And yes i have had plans to buy something  somewhere else and bought something different too. But it does sound like you have a keeper??  Both the M38's and M91/59's have been rare for quite sometime and i'm not sure how long we will see them for sale so we have to grab them when we see them.  Some importer just grabbed a boat load of M39's and i think he is sitting on them till the price goes higher.  If we see this stuff locally grab it for sure because the prices in the near future may not be the same.
Its price vs. condition then grab it if its cheap/reasonable  and in very good to excellent condition too I don't worry about C boring it wa done to improve the accuracy of the rifle and its part of their history.                                                                        BigBill

I never go to a gun show with $1,000(mad money) anymore thats not good because i just seem to come out with more than i can carry.

[Robert357]

I never go to a gun show with $1,000(mad money) anymore thats not good because i just seem to come out with more than i can carry.

Hmmm.   I'll bet you were something else when you were single and dating the ladies!  Reminds me of several old songs.  Back to the thread topic.

As for me, every now and then something just jumps off the gun show table and says "take me home!"  It is sort of like the puppy that follows you home, what can you do.  This has happened to me with a nice FN1900 in 32 ACP (mfg in about 1903), with a Ruger Blackhawk 45 (Long) Colt, and an MN1891/30.  

My sollution to impulse buying is that my two gun safes are so full, that I really don't have room left to put anything new in them without getting rid of something.  Although I have re-arranged things to fit another pistol or revolver into the gun safe.  And there are always reloading supplies and books that I can get at a gunshow.  

I do have one worry.  My two sons have grown and left home and I am just waiting for them to buy homes as I will provide each with a gun safe of their own and start clearing out room in my gun safes so I can acquire more neat stuff.  After all, those 22 cal rifles and 20 guage shotguns, I really just bought for them.  Some of the 22 cal revolvers with convertable 22 WRM cylinders should really belong to them also.   That would give me room for the over and under shotgun, and the few semi-auto assualt type rifles I would like to get to say nothing about room for a few more pre-WW-1 32 ACP pistols for my collection.  And then of course there......I better stop thinking like that.

[1911crazy]

I have slowed down a lot lately and i have started enjoying gun shows more now by just browsing around rather rushing and trying to beat the crowd searching for a good buy and what I want.  I wish I started collecting years ago when this stuff was cheap I only bought two a 98K and M39.                                                            BigBill

I don't own any american made surplus military guns because of the higher prices and i may never own one too.  I'm just too frugal to pay that price.

I plan on giving my son all of my guns too when i pass on too their all willed to him and he knows if he sells any of them i will haunt him forever. :twisted: