My original 4" .45 Colt Anaconda was $612.00.
Apparently they only made 250 of the bastards and someone on Gunbroker thinks $5,500 is in order for one today.
The 6" .45 Colt version is much more common.
$1,500 to $2,000 depending on how much of the original box and accoutrements you have.
According to this inflation calculator that $612 gun should only be worth $1,065.31.
In 2007 I paid $1,090 for it. The inflation calculator says I overpaid... I should have insisted on $856.23.
We won't even get into how much my 1916 SMLE MkIII* has increased in value since 1994 when I dropped the princely sum of $70 on it.
And have you seen what Mosin prices have done recently? OMG.
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I remember seeing Morons in a rack at a local gun store a few years ago for $59. Thought to myself, what do I want one of those for?
ReplyDeleteThat's how I get my exercise, from repeatedly kicking myself.
Did autocorrupt change Mosin to Moron for you?
DeleteYeah - sorry, I didn't catch that.
ReplyDeleteI got a 6 pack of Russian M44s in the early 2000s for $39 each. Prior to that (mid 1990s) I got a 6 pack of Chinese Type 53s for about the same price. I sold or gave away all the Type 53s except maybe 1, but I have kept the M44s. I paid under $100 for the 91/30s I have. The only Mosins I paid more for that are the much less common M38 and 91/59 variants and the beautiful Polish (Circle 11), but still under $200. I never did get any of the Fins, they were always more than I was willing to shell out for.
ReplyDeleteJust like always, when Mosins were dead cheap and ubiquitous, I was severely short of money. I wanted to pick one or two up just on general principles, but it was no go.
ReplyDeleteHakims were like that. I got one a few years ago but paid about 3x what they sold for back in the early 1990s.
DeleteI've been considering liquidating a few M44s and maybe a 91/30 to free up some cash to put into something else. But I'm not sure we've seen top of market on them yet. I need to do a little research and then maybe list a few on funbroker or something.
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