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Tedkennedy

Omnivore
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Kalash Klub
May 17, 2016
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Oklahoma
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I remember when nobody wanted an NHM91

I remember buying one - NIB at the Oklahoma City gun show for 229 bucks.

When I worked at the glass plant, us batch/furnace/maint guys worked for about 2 weeks straight, super long days/nights. Holiday pay, plus double time. (this was at Christmas shutdown) That big paycheck came the first week of January, a few of us would head to OKC with wads of cash. This was in the early to mid-90s, surplus heaven.

I remember buying the NHM91 and debating if I wanted it or the SVT.
Mausers (Nazi) - 99-139 bucks
Mausers (Swedes) - 79-99
SKS (Norinco) - 75-100
AKs (Norinco) - 175-250
Mosins were cheap cheap cheap. (I bought a 44 with a laminated stock, sling, oiler, etc..for a hundred dollar bill)

I bought Turkish 98 Mausers for 39.99 a piece, covered in cosmo, some were rough, some were good.

Gun shows don't even resemble what they looked like back then. I miss drooling over the really nice mil-surp stuff that was around.

Later on K31s were 100, walnut stocked ones ran about 150.

Dammit. Those were the good old days, and we didn't even know it.
 

AC-130 Above

WTB: SVT-40
Kalash Klub
Oct 14, 2019
8,045
37,497
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Newnan
Zip code
30263
I remember buying one - NIB at the Oklahoma City gun show for 229 bucks.

When I worked at the glass plant, us batch/furnace/maint guys worked for about 2 weeks straight, super long days/nights. Holiday pay, plus double time. (this was at Christmas shutdown) That big paycheck came the first week of January, a few of us would head to OKC with wads of cash. This was in the early to mid-90s, surplus heaven.

I remember buying the NHM91 and debating if I wanted it or the SVT.
Mausers (Nazi) - 99-139 bucks
Mausers (Swedes) - 79-99
SKS (Norinco) - 75-100
AKs (Norinco) - 175-250
Mosins were cheap cheap cheap. (I bought a 44 with a laminated stock, sling, oiler, etc..for a hundred dollar bill)

I bought Turkish 98 Mausers for 39.99 a piece, covered in cosmo, some were rough, some were good.

Gun shows don't even resemble what they looked like back then. I miss drooling over the really nice mil-surp stuff that was around.

Later on K31s were 100, walnut stocked ones ran about 150.

Dammit. Those were the good old days, and we didn't even know it.
At least you got to enjoy it I was still shitting in a diaper then
 

Fast306stang

Black Bear under anesthesia
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Kalash Klub
Jul 1, 2015
18,091
98,514
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Zip code
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I remember the shows in the mid-late 80's, they rocked pretty good.

In 2011 I was sent to Little Rock and they had a pretty big gunshow while I was there, I was amazed at how good the show was compared to what we have here. There was a lot of variation between tables, prices were pretty good. The gunshows here, you can look at the tables of 4 or 5 different vendors and the tables all look the same.