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    That site again

    This is why I feel the repro stock makers will (have) start making these in earnest as it is getting beyond a joke you can get a shooter for that price and the auction has yet to finish. Yes I know they do not make them anymore but the game is getting to be a rich mans pass time and I ain't rich by any stretch......
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    Stocks for the 1917 are about the same. There'd be a lot of meat on the bone for someone that already has a duplicator.

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    Not even a full stock set. Enfields were $30 rifles 30 years ago. $200 rifles 5 years ago. Now $350 for a fore end. I am losing interest in Milsurps due to prices.


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    Yep have some Enfield actions I was going to restock. Junk is $200.00, I’ll let them sit.

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    Sounds like a business opportunity to me.

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    Thing is...we have a member here that was making stocks on his pantograph and said it was a nightmare... You'd get almost finished and hit an irregularity in the wood, unseen, and it would scrap the project. I'm more along the thought of buy them complete and quit feeding the sharks.
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    Trouble is, for every shark there is out there there's another guy who just wants to complete a Bubba'd service rifle, & who needs the parts. But I've got to agree, stripping down a good rifle just because the sum of its parts is worth more than the whole is a pretty sad situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
    for every shark there is out there there's another guy who just wants
    Yes, there's always one that will pay...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
    stripping down a good rifle just because the sum of its parts is worth more than the whole is a pretty sad situation.
    I agree 100% I ran into this eBay/GunBroker guy that has a ton of good MILSURP. He tears them down and sells them for parts. I can't see why anyone would do that. I, on the other hand, have been trying to put rifles back in service but the parts are becoming so expensive it at this point where I can't afford it anymore. Even the rifles that were considered "cheap" are in the ridiculous zone; Mosin Nagant complete bolts were 35.00 to 45.00 US in March of 2017, now you cant touch one for less then 75.00 and that's if you are lucky. So I've past up good deals on even those lately. (I have too many Mosin's anyhow)

    Remington Model 12 22cal rifles part have almost tripped in the same time frame and those are not milsup's so really its happening across the board.

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    This forend furniture (no butt) went for $535! Unbelieveable...
    Trying to save Service history, one rifle at a time...

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