Personally I am a huge fan of the M91/30. It was the first in my WWII collection. The reason they are so cheap is simple. They were brought in to the country a few years back by the millions and thats what made them so cheap. If you are a collecter however, cheap is usually not good. I have one in beautiful condition with all serial numbers matching. It is a 1943r with serial number 20X. It is a really low serial number considering they made almost 350,000 that year. As far as the shooting goes, I shoot mine out at the range all the time and it has become very easy to shoot 300 meters open sights at 1 foot by 1 foot 1/4" plate steel. This is with cheap surplus ammo. Ive seen an older gentleman that I was good friends with shoot a 55 gal. oil drum at 900 meters open sights (3rd shot) with the same ammo. The defects are low as they are inspected before import. The main problem seems to be getting all of the jelled grease(cosmolineicon) cleaned out of each nook and craney. They make for a cheap fun shooter and i would definitly reccomend buyng one. Hope this helps with some of your questions.

mdrim13