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    Wow $809 for. A Savage Lee-Enfield!

    Holy Bat Caves Batman! And I thought I was taken to the shower at just under $400.00 for the Savage Lee-Enfield I just picked up.

    Classic has just listed a batch of Lee-Enfield No4 Mk1 for Britishicon $799.99 + 25.00 for Long Branch and + 50.00 for Savage. Yikes!! And they don't even know how good the bores are!

    "We make no guarantee for bore condition on any surplus rifle but I have looked down a few . All that I have seen were serviceable and some looked pretty darn good. Also, in the interest of full disclosure many of these came to us without mags but we have replaced any mags that were missing with our new Enfield mags that we sell elsewhere on the site. These mags are manufactured to the original spec and are quite nice."

    "e - This particular group included some of the even more rare and highly collectible Canadianicon Long Branch Enfield's as well as some Savage Stevens U.S. Property Marked Enfield's. I"
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    They are the crap that was rusting at SAMCO. Worst part is they will sell out quickly. They likely paid Century $300 each tops


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    High prices seem to be the norm now. Was at a show last weekend and a pretty beat 50 LB was over a grand, nuts but what do I know.
    Why use a 50 pound bomb when a 500 pound bomb will do?

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    Quote Originally Posted by enfield303t View Post
    High prices seem to be the norm now. Was at a show last weekend and a pretty beat 50 LB was over a grand, nuts but what do I know.
    I liked how they tossed 'Rare' in there when talking about Savage

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    Quote Originally Posted by capt14k View Post
    They are the crap that was rusting at SAMCO. Worst part is they will sell out quickly. They likely paid Century $300 each tops
    Replacement mags and uncheck bores... you don't even know it they have matching numbers anywhere - you know the mag isn't $850 just blows me away

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    Even worse than these were the RC Mausers they sold for $900-$1,700


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    seam like so much of the samco stuff is starting to surface
    that auction was the worst

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    Spare a thought for them here in Aus average for clunkers is between $650/900/Au but here's some of the other dreamers

    I put the equivalent of the USD so you get an idea of what you would pay living in the USAicon.

    Calibre Item: 303
    Make: Lithgowicon
    Model: No.1 Mk.111
    Action: Bolt repeater
    Serial No: C7207
    Condition: Very Good
    Price: $2290 = USD $1819.45

    Calibre/Item: 303
    Make: Enfield
    Model: No IV Mk II
    Action: Bolt repeater
    Condition: Very Good
    Price: $2100 = USD $1668.49
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    There is still a lot we haven't seen from the SAMCO sale.

    Here is the list I saved to my document cloud for anyone who is interested.

    [url="https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/0dc53fe2-8070-49d8-a937-7cb45d981cfa"]

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    Quote Originally Posted by CINDERS View Post
    Aus average for clunkers is between $650/900/Au
    Gezz Louise! Why so high? that's $516/$715 US and from what I've been looking at here in the US the past 3 months would be a really nice 4mk1

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    To bring this into prospective. Last year I purchased an early (1942) No.4 1* Savage with a mint bore, matching numbers. The cost? £250.
    OK this is in the UKicon.

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