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Why on earth would somebody take a pristine 1955 Polish M44 and butcher it into this monstrosity and then ask £1295 for it in sale.
Please stop this carnage in the heritage of military rifles, if you don`t like them for what they are leave them alone.

We are all ignorant, only about different things.

I might ask them how they came to that price when I am next there... They didn't even know what the calibre was last month!

That rifle has been for sale for at least a year now. Perhaps if it was advertised as a rare ‘tower sniper rifle’ they’d get more interest

Blighty wrote:That rifle has been for sale for at least a year now. Perhaps if it was advertised as a rare ‘tower sniper rifle’ they’d get more interest

It's predominantly a shop aimed at hunters and the over/under types in their various guises. I really wouldn't be surprised if they took it in as a trade in with that very yarn told to them, Blighty. Maybe they did a quick Google search that says bent bolt = sniper, and we all know that means: dolla dolla bills, y'all.

I do like the shop and have had some great deals from them. They'd would be my first port of call if I wanted a new firearm ordering in, or even for components and rimfire ammo. But anything outside of their targeted audience and there is a massive knowledge gap unfortunately. That isn't unique to them though, far from it!

Looking at the prices on Guntrader/Gunstar that people are asking for fake/reproduction snipers and Soviet refurbed carbines etc I should chance my luck and put my genuine 1944-dated Arsenal matching PU sniper up for 3k and see what happens!

bourgeois capitalist ! Off to the Gulag with you...

meles meles wrote:bourgeois capitalist ! Off to the Gulag with you...

Nyet Tovarisch, it would be a State Approved arms sale

Seriously though, I’ve lost count of the number of 1930’s dated Izhevsk “sniper” and “ex-sniper” rifles I’ve seen for sale.....Izhevsk produced no sniper rifles at all, with any type of scope, prior to 1942!.

Blighty wrote:That rifle has been for sale for at least a year now. Perhaps if it was advertised as a rare ‘tower sniper rifle’ they’d get more interest

Looking to put one of those together myself ... when I can find a decent period scope.

I'm putting this together more for sh1ts and giggles than anything else, I had a proper 1939 Tula sniper with PEM scope, loved the rifle but just didn't like the length, I found it too long, I much prefer the carbine length WW2 rifles.

Who in their right mind would pay that much for a M44 and one that's been so butchered