I was in a pawn shop they had a SVT 40 for sale. It looks clean and it has a good bore. I passed on it they were asking $1100. I have never seen one for sale locally before are they hard to find in the US
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I was in a pawn shop they had a SVT 40 for sale. It looks clean and it has a good bore. I passed on it they were asking $1100. I have never seen one for sale locally before are they hard to find in the US
Refurbished SVT 40s are not hard to find at all in the U.S. And $1100 is typical price.
Now factory original SVT 40s are extremely difficult to find every where. $1100 for a factory original rifle is a great price.
I'm hoping the new administration will allow their importation again and bring the price down. No guarantee on that but I'm very unwilling to pay $1100 for one when they get less than half that in Canada for the same rifle.
Way less in some cases...staggering to think you guys have to pay so much at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aragorn243
I paid 450$ for my SVT-40 about 5 years ago. Soon afterwards a massive amount came in and they were selling for 200$ a rifle, now they have gone back up again.
I would gladly trade the cheap SVT-40s for the cheap ammo and other firearms you can get in the States. For a milsurp collector the variety and price just can't be beat in the US for basically everything except Soviet arms.
I agree. Refurbished SVTs should not cost this much. But often times can sell for this much. I to am waiting for the ban to be lifted and prices to fall to Canadian prices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aragorn243
What drives the prices is their relative rarity here. Importation to the US was banned by the Clinton Administration and relatively few SVT rifles made it to the US before they clamped down.
Importation was never stopped to Canada and a lot more rifles ended up being imported there.
Unfortunately, word is the SVT's have pretty much dried up n russia, and even lifting an import ban wouldn't significantly change the supply situation here.
Yes, we were aware.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronbo6
Here they run at 400-600 € in pristine conditions.
Seems to be a quite cheap rifle, oddly........
On a Canadian forum, today, a '43 "Bulgarian light refurb" for $850 loonies (X 0.76 USD). All original stamped, matching parts. It appears these are not keeping pace with the price increase on the refurbs.
Ridolpho
I have noticed actual rare milsurps tend to not sell as fast or as high a price in comparison to many of the more common variants or hyped firearms (think M39, K31, M1 Garand).
For example I am trying to sell a Soviet produced M91 Infantry Rifle made in 1926 at the moment for 350$ shipped. Bore is still VG, it shoots great, and it is extremely rare because it is from the last year of production for a Soviet M91 Infantry. It has sat for 3 weeks at that price, well other mismatched, much more common Imperial M91s that have been heavily Finned are selling for more and faster.
What I think it is the fact less people are actual collectors and are more interested in having some milsurps rather than collecting them.