US Property marked Mossberg .22 bolt gun @ local shop: Should I buy? What's it worth?

[tgd31968]

I realize this is an old thread, but you did pretty well. The CMP sold these by the truckload about 10 years ago. The trigger guards are nylon, so they had become brittle after 60 years, and they had no magazines. I remember picking up one to look at it at the CMP North store, and when I gently set it down on the rack again, the trigger guard fell off.

At that time they were going for $65 for the ones classified as "rusty" which as it turned out were mostly dried cosmoline, and $75 for the non "rusty" ones. It was about another $30 each for the mag and the replacement aluminum trigger guards, so after all was said and done, the total cost was about $125-$130 to get them right. The ones I have experience with are EXCELLENT shooters. I would assume the seller had similar money tied up in it.
So, 8-10 years later for them to only be about $200 ish seems reasonable considering.
There are blued and parkerized samples, and they almost always have lost one or more of the colored safety indicator buttons.
If you like accurate bolt .22 veterans, they are good choices for $200 or less in my opinion.