Original M2 price & shooting

[Greystone45]

I've learned quite a bit about the M2 in the last few days. Now I'm wondering how many original machined M2's are out there and how often do they come up for sale?

Someone said 400,000 Inlands were made and 17,500 winchesters, how many of these may still be around or registered to legally own?

What would be a fair price for a nice original machined M2 inland or Winchester?

Do people go out and shoot these or just a collectible?

Information

Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.

[trekvana]

-- ill let the other more knowledgeable folks chime in on this, but I would have to say more of a collectible since isn't it hard to find ranges that allow class 3 firearms??

[imarangemaster]

None of the ranges I have been associated with, including the one in NW Mississippi I belong to now, have allowed full auto firearms.

[Greystone45]

I've never shot at a range, just on farms and such although I never knew ranges wouldn't allow such a thing

[emmagee1917]

No info on numbers available , but orig M2s are rare and are running $10-12,000 . A registered reciever M2 , one that someone , somewhere ,at sometime converted , is just as functional if built on a GI reciever with GI parts and are running around $5-6,000 . Half the price for very little differance. M2s converted with commercial recievers would be at the low end of this or a little below. Registered kits would fall into the same area.

While there are some sad people out there that would not shoot thier FA by choice , most are sane and take them out as much as weather and ammo availibility and afordability will allow. ( :>)

No , just kidding a little there. But one good thing about our hobby is we get to use or toys rather than just look at them like stamps , coins , butterflies , baseball cards , etc. When people say they won't shoot a piece because they're afraid that they'll break something and won't be able to fix it , I point out that they're treating it as if it already was broke , so what have they got to lose ?
I live in a free state with miles and miles of open desert and lots of scattered small mountains 100s of feet high for backstops , an excellent range facility when wanted , so yes , I shoot mine and I do so often. Life is good.
Chris