It has been quite a while since I did a gun deal that required me to literally back the truck up to the door of the sales venue.
And yet, there I was.
I wasn’t the person who came across this particular estate, but the person who did was nice enough to put me near the top of the list for buyers. The decedent was, apparently, ‘one of us’…with stockpiles of ammo, magazines, and that sort of thing. The widow decided to keep the storage food and a few guns for herself. The rest…was up for grabs.
Unfortunately, while I got some smokin’ deals on guns and ammo, they were guns and ammo that weren’t exactly in my logistics table. But, guns I don’t necessarily want have an uncanny way of transmuting into guns I do want…usually facilitated by selling them to someone and then using the proceeds to get what I really wanted.
What did I score? Hmm..some .40 Glocks, a Para-Ord .45 with a buncha 14-rd mags, a camo’d PTR91, and a Norinco milled Mak90 with several thousand rounds of ammo, a dozen mags and a couple drums. And at least a couple thousand rounds of .308 as well.
While I do like the PTR’s, I prefer the newer GI models that have the paddle mag release. I’ll sell this one and it’s dozen mags and use the proceeds to hunt down a newer GI model. The Glocks will get sold to get 9mm versions. The Para I have no idea what to do with. Might keep it…might not. The AK is actually pretty nice for a thirty year old gun, and apparently the milled receivers make them worth a nice chunk on Gunbroker. I’ll probably keep the ammo just because.
Still have to pick up the stack of big ammo cans which will go towards housing all the magazines I have here ready to go into the Deep Sleep.
Things I missed out on in the estate were .44 and .45 Ruger revolvers, some Bushmaster ARs, a nice Rem 700 .223 ‘gopher gun’, and a few other things like that.
RIght place, right time, wrong guns for the most part. But..wheeling and dealing is always fun so it’ll be interesting to try and sell/trade these out for the stuff I’d rather have.
I find it fascinating that since the ban on Russian ammo I have been falling into so much 7.62×39.
You can’t leave a post like that and not give us more details…..
Sounds like a haul!
As I said..inventorying. Most interesting thing so far is a milled MAK-90 and a mountain of ammo for it.
Does the MAK-90 have a thumb hole stock?
Has a Choate ‘Dragunov’ stock.
Stamped 386 with an oval around it ? I remember those milled back in the very late 80’s. I cannot recall if Polytech or Norinco was the manufacturer.
Yup. Story I read is they are just Norinco marked Polytech Legends
Nice! CZ is on it. When all the anti-vaxxers get fired by Biden there may be an opportunity to pick up some good gun deals when they run out of money. Of course talk is cheap, rumor control reported NYPD had 10k officers going to quit rather than get the jab, when it got down to nut cutting time only 37 wound up terminated.
still jonesing for one of those SA-35’s, waiting for the price to go down. Just picked up a .243 with a 24″ heavy barrel and my ammo order just arrived. Things are looking up.
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You can not [well you can but should not] just say “a camo’d PTR91” and leave it at that.
40 Glocks eh? Hmmm. That’s one caliber I’ve been shooting more if recently just because I do have a lot of 40 S&W ammo.
Reading this makes me think I’ve got to get out more… hit some yard sales or SOMETHING!
I do have enough canning lids to get some jam put up so that’s a plus anyway. If you are careful, they can be reused.
I am soooooo jealous!
I’m surprised you haven’t built yourself a 30 cal AR yet for all that Russian ammo. They’re a lot of fun. Any chance of just getting conversion barrels for those Glocks? Redundancy
DONT SELL THE GLOCKS!
Buy some Lone Wolf drop in 9mm bbls and along with the 9 mags you already own (playing the odds here bear with me), you have caliber versatility.
You can take those 40 cal Glocks and use a conversion 9mm barrel and 9mm magazines and keep the 40 as a just in case I get a ton of 40 ammunition
I have 4 pistols with 40S&W/357Sig/9mm barrels. 40 & 357 use the same mags.
I love multi-caliber guns. I’d like to lay my hands on a 3″ barrel SP-101 in 327 Federal Magnum. You can shoot .32 ACP, .32 Long, .32 Short and .32 H&R Mag. ammunition in any .327 Federal Magnum revolver. And Henry is doing a lever gun.
Congrats on the Mak-90. It’s the only Chinese made firearm I have any desire to own.
The widow decided to keep the storage food and a few guns for herself.” nice to see that she has some sense, I’m sure I’m not the only one who has seen the family left behind just dump everything.
I had a friend who stumbled onto an estate sale where the farmer who had passed collected FALs, my friend could only afford two and just missed out on the FNC that someone else grabbed 1st. The spouse had no interest in the guns and they were going well under market value for the time (late 80s).
Similar haul from a former coworker who retired to the golf course. Picked up 3 SKS rifles in good to great conditions and 2 Ak74 rifles (semi auto) in nearly new condition. THE FORMER were imported in the 1970’s, AK time frames likely 1980’s. 2k of 7.62 x 39 in wood crates. All cash n carry. Will use the SKS for trade or barter down the road, AK will be deep stored, already have multiples of parts.
It’s good to know guys who live to golf.
Given how robust and simple the SKS’s are and depending on your personal security situation, you may consider the SKS’s as either weapons to issue to new recruits to expand your defensive force or long term off site non-attributable emergency caches.
Any interest in parting with the Para? Is it a P 14 ?
It’s a P14 and five Para marked magazines. You’re a bit slow to the party, I sold it to a buddy of mine the other day.