M1 Garand for a Sauer CE K98

[neoisprettycool]

No I had seen your post, I was sort of replying to both of you. I've seen forum posts from 2010 on here saying that even a mismatch bolt K98, non import, was still worth close to $1000. In 2010... years later, and we all know that Milsurps have exploded in value. Russian Captures have been selling for 700-800 regularly. And while Gunbroker/Armlists is a bit off in terms of the auction setting; they are, for all intensive purposes, the stock market for firearms. We have no other benchmark than those, and it seems like most of the responses this thread have received are hinged upon opinion/speculation. People's opinions don't always correlate with the market. When there are people willing to pay these prices, the firearms are worth that price. But that's just IMHO . Honestly I'm pretty split here, I think the issue is I went into this thinking already it would be a good deal. I mean, I just don't see K98s locally anymore. Let alone non-import, non-capture, and at least mostly matching. I've actually NEVER seen any kind of partly matching K98s locally in recent years. I see Garands all the time.

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Also, I want to clarify one last time. I should have been more clear in the beginning, but I digress: I am giving him a Carcano and the M1 Garand. He is giving me the K98, sling, ammo, some AR parts, and other misc. stuff. He has sent pictures of the bolt and other disassembled parts. Apparently the bolt partly matches itself, and some of the numbers on the bolt matches the floor plate (Which is also non matching evidently...) Overall, everything looks quite nice but the bolt is the only thing that leaves myself some concern. However, from what I have seen, if his K98 had all matching parts it would be worth easily up to $1500 to $2000. Does a non matching bolt and floor plate really take that much away from it? (Happy New Year btw!)
I mean, my Garand isn't matching. Matter of fact, not a single part matches.

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Also the barrel code is G2434. Is that supposed to match the rest of the rifle?