Thread: Is the Mosin Nagant 91/30 Gun City is selling a good choice for an investment gun?

Originally Posted by tiroatedson

For referring to the Mosin being on a hit list....


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Said it might be..speculation on my part.

GC has been well pick through, they did have some really good ones that hadn't been refurb (if you know what markings and numbers to look for) with the hex receiver, they where part of the experimental/testing pre production batch during the changeover period from dragoon to M91/30 when none where produced. The barrel's internals looked unfired and the matching bolts and receiver showed no sign of polished rubbing or action drag wear. The stock shellac coating where all flaky as expected for it's age (so they looked bad at first glance). None of the hex ones I saw had been bubba.

You can make your own luck by doing your homework before you purchase. I've got a bunch of "collector" firearms, but of them all only one can be counted as an investment in the true sense of the word. Sorta like the difference between speculating (very high risk often with factors outside your control) and investment where the rate of return is pretty well known and correlates directly with risk . . . .

There's a few cheap 303 rifles on trademe.

All under 300 bucks.

If you are after an old rifle then get one of those and just shoot it.

I don't think Mosins in general are all that collectible as the Russians made tens of millions of them. Average prices for them in the USA run right now around $200-$300 US$, with some of the vendors that have fresh imports from the Ukraine being slightly higher. The more valuable Mosins are the Finn rifles and USA made rifles.

Agree when the GC Mosins first reappeared on the market earlier this year, the hex ones were lovely. I saw a mint or pretty much unissued 1936 for $799 without any import stamps or bubba work.

I don’t think a decent example will go down in the long term.
I would look for an Enfield though.

By holding the rifle as an investment, what are you hoping to achieve? Prices may well go up, but how many years will this take?

How much of an increase do you want to achieve? Double, tripple, more?

A $400 gun may take 20 years to become an $800 gun. That's a long time for a small increase - $20 a year increase

On Big yellow 2 or 3 months ago a Finnish 44 went for over 2k, last month a polish 44 went for around 1k. From what I've read and the vids I've seen from collectors anything with a hex receiver is worth acquiring regardless.

I collect the ww2 era stuff more for historic value then dollar value.

Find you self a nice full wood Lee enfield, even they are commanding decent prices now unfortunately.

Buy a nice modern rifle/shotgun Blue steel and Walnut priced between 2K and 6K and sit on that you will get a much better price in 20 years and have a bigger market to sell to
than some old banger from WW11, It will shoot better is just one pro, look at the price of a pre64 Winchester M70 even shot out it is 10 times 1964 price, Look for a Sako deluxe
a modern Mauser a Schultz & Larsen anything that has decent build quality not this synthetic stocked rubbish that all look the same,