Author Topic: MY kind of milsurp (Read 406 times)

Shorty · « **on:** February 27, 2004, 03:22:33 PM »

BUT not my kind of prices! :eek:
In a Shotgun News advertisment:
British Snyder conversions, .577; long and short lever Martinis, .450/577, etc.
Condition; fair to good - you clean off the crud.
Price $575.+/-
Dang, they went for just $15-$30 only a lousy 40 years ago!

Fla Brian · « **Reply #1 on:** February 29, 2004, 07:50:02 PM »

Yup. Prices skyrocketed - practically overnight! :lol: :lol:

1911crazy · « **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2004, 01:20:45 AM »

I can remember seeing all this stuff under one roof we had a local gun shop who had all C&R's too. And the prices back then too!! Of course I didn't have much cash back them either(new family). He had racks and racks of C&R's From garands to 03's to every mauser from every country all dirt cheap compared to now. I can even remember a rack of FR8's too. I spend hours in there just looking thru them all and no one bother me. It was like stepping back in time. Just the smell of cosmo was worse than smelling my mother tomato sauce cooking as i walked into the shop. I sure miss those days now and the prices and availability of them too. BigBill

I wonder if some of the guns i see traded in now could be some of the ones I actually looked at/touched back then in the 70's. Our lives sure has changed since then. I will never see another shop like that for sure it was C&R heaven.

Steyr · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2004, 06:14:53 AM »

Cheapest Snider I've heard of lately was $250CDN, and it needed LOTSA work !
Martinis seem even dearer