Good score.I would like to add another Finnish nagant to my collection.
Market Hall Gun Show Find
Went to Market Hall gun show in Dallas today. The place was dead. Lots of dealers. They even opened up the north hall to accomidate the overflow of dealer tables. Not many customers and few of them buyers. Saw dealers playing cards at their table.
There were lot of black guns, but too few surplus. I did see a few Mosins here are there, but mostly overpriced. MGS had its usual selection and some good prices, but nothing that appealed to me. I saw Eric at the show and it was nice talking with him.
Most of the way through the tables I spotted a Finn capture SVT. I noticed it was surrounded by Finn Mosins. Then the dealer called my name and I looked up at him. It was Dean-Dallas. He had quite a selection of rare Finnish Mosins. I spend some time looking at them and talking with Dean before I moved on. His asking prices were above the amount in my wallet or I would have tried to bargain with him one of what he had. Not saying they were too high, just worth more than I could pay.
I finished walking through the place and started back the other way. On the last row I saw a young man with a Finnish looking Mosin on his shoulder. I asked if he was selling it and he said $300. I talked him down to $275 and he seemed surprised when I accepted. Probably should have tried to go lower, but I had already agreed. The gun is a 1943 SKY M39 in a tiger stripe stock. The handguard has a really interesting grain pattern. Receiver is 1905 Izhevsk. The finish on the metal is almost gone except under the wood where it is near perfect. The wood finish is also very worn.
An interesting feature is that the rear barrel band has a brass insert. It is between the sections of the screw hole.
It is a CAI import marked "98/22 8mm Czecho".
There were lot of black guns, but too few surplus. I did see a few Mosins here are there, but mostly overpriced. MGS had its usual selection and some good prices, but nothing that appealed to me. I saw Eric at the show and it was nice talking with him.
Most of the way through the tables I spotted a Finn capture SVT. I noticed it was surrounded by Finn Mosins. Then the dealer called my name and I looked up at him. It was Dean-Dallas. He had quite a selection of rare Finnish Mosins. I spend some time looking at them and talking with Dean before I moved on. His asking prices were above the amount in my wallet or I would have tried to bargain with him one of what he had. Not saying they were too high, just worth more than I could pay.
I finished walking through the place and started back the other way. On the last row I saw a young man with a Finnish looking Mosin on his shoulder. I asked if he was selling it and he said $300. I talked him down to $275 and he seemed surprised when I accepted. Probably should have tried to go lower, but I had already agreed. The gun is a 1943 SKY M39 in a tiger stripe stock. The handguard has a really interesting grain pattern. Receiver is 1905 Izhevsk. The finish on the metal is almost gone except under the wood where it is near perfect. The wood finish is also very worn.
An interesting feature is that the rear barrel band has a brass insert. It is between the sections of the screw hole.
It is a CAI import marked "98/22 8mm Czecho".
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Now Ron you are not telling everything about the show, how it was 3 inchs of snow on on the untreated & unsanded freeways in Dallas.
With gale force winds & wind-chill in the low twenties.
And how close it is to the national tax day, we all love so well.
You know give me a break, it is not the best time to have a gunshow. Heck Mark Kelly did not even show up & we all know how he is.
I bled all day Sat being nickle & dime to death. As I get older I don't bleed too well on Sundays, my clean shirt had already been sabotaged by a leaking coffee cup. My poor dog was mad at me for leaving her home, it was not a good day.
And as far as my prices well if they don't sell I will take my marbles & go home to sell on gunbroker.
And look at all of the good company I would have missed by staying at home.
And the model 39 you found was the poor kid starving? I bet he was, I bet he was selling it to buy bread for his starving kiddies.
Us gunshow dealers are supposed to do the robbing & feed the poor.
Here you go & rob him out of the only thing between him & starvation.
I guess that is all we can expect out of a ex-KGB agent, still strong-arming their way through life.
Yeah OK All right I will wait on you,, as long as I don't have to hold my breath.
Now you are supposed to steer any walk-ins my way that has any Finns to sell. I will check them out make sure there is no starving kiddos out there.
I could have made 75 to 100 off the deal without even trying.
My wife did win 6 dollars on twenty dollars spent in last weeks drawing so there is hope out there.
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