Another WAC Swap Meet

[HiFi Magnetics]

It's getting busy!View attachment 2226273

Its always nice to go to swap meets.
Glad you guys enjoyed the indoor trading. I'll try to go the next time I don't have prior engagement.

 

[JamesAllen1]

Even if you don't score a swap or bargain still the jawing with fellow collectors is great. I always learn something new.

 

[JamesAllen1]

Hopefully, next swap meet is April, likely a Saturday. Stay tuned!

 

[JamesAllen1]

Id hate to pay money for an event that's just expensive antiques like most gun shows. I drove all the way to bend Oregon to a gun show for powder and saw a cut up vetterli rifles for 700 dollars. Give me a break

Is this more to your taste and wallet dimensions?

 

[Steveoko22]

Is this more to your taste and wallet dimensions?

View attachment 2235169

Ah yes, abused African surplus.

 

[Steveoko22]

And they are even more expensive than the same rifles Royal Tiger offers on thier website! Whoa!

 

[JamesAllen1]

Yes, but hardly $700.

James

 

[JamesAllen1]

Just checked and cheapest Italian Vetterli I could find on Royal Tiger is $299. Add sales tax and shipping and you are up to . . . ? Cheapest in photo I attached was $250 cash.

 

[Steveoko22]

Just checked and cheapest Italian Vetterli I could find on Royal Tiger is $299. Add sales tax and shipping and you are up to . . . ? Cheapest in photo I attached was $250 cash.

Are those your rifles your selling?

 

[JamesAllen1]

Not my rifles. I know less than my goldfish about Italian C&R rifles.

 

[Steveoko22]

Oh, okay. Those rifles on the table and avaliable at royal tiger were sold to west Africa in the 1920s, and abused by irregulars. They were stored in a goat hut and imported to the US and marketed as premium antique collectibles for a while, until people realized they were buying absolute garbage with no avaliable replacement parts. The table that you saw, is probably the guy trying recoup his bad investment. Symptoms of a "collectible" rti rifle, included but not limited to:
- bouldge and bent barrel
- cracked stocks
- missing sights and extractors
- unsafe head space
- irreplaceable parts

Unfortunately, the victims of these rifles are people who's just entering the surplus market and learn a very hard lesson, especially when reasonable and serviceble rifles are avaliable elsewhere.