This guy must've been a Wordforger...

I picked up an auction flyer this week, lo and behold it was for an estate auction. Estate auctions are the best, as you're not competing against the owner, and all sales are final. Check it out, it has everything, tools, books, ammo, guns, coins, even comic books!

Auction Flyer

Gun Pics

I'm gonna try to go, so feel free to comment on the value or uniqueness of any of the items. And I could do some proxy bidding, via cellphone...

Some good stuff there. I like the matched pair of Ruger Redhawks...

Mmmm Garand.

You should try getting that M1A.

Yeah. I'd really like to have that M1A.

Feel free to throw out some numbers on any of em.

I'd steer clear of that PolyTech AK unless you just want it as a collector piece or if it comes with a ton of extra magazines. Magazines for that rifle are hard to find (AFAIK, those guns haven't been imported for at least 20 years, if not longer) and the rifle won't accept other (Russian/Bulgarian/Whoever) 5.56 magazines.

If that M1A is the lock-stock standard Springfield product, it'll go new for $1,500 retail. The #1 draw back to that rifle is that good 20 round magazines (that you can bet your life on) will set you back $50.00 each retail. The #2 draw back is the price of .308Win and 7.62x51mm NATO.

If you are setup to reload or you want to get setup to reload, jump on it. But, it's not going to be a cheap gun to plink with.

That said, even if I weren't setup to reload that caliber, I'd still jump on it if I could because I have a long love affair with the M14. I regret parting with the two I had.

Edit: If I weren't so heavily invested in 5.56MM NATO, I'd drop it like a bad habit and get a National Match M1A and another SOCOM II.

Edit #2: If there's NO RUST AT ALL or cracked wood on that Garand, I'd give $600 tops. Because don't forget about the Civilian Marksmanship Program and the millions of surplus M1's they have in like-new issue condition for $750.

Edit #3: The Mini-14. Not a penny more than $500.

Edit #4: That coach gun would be handy. Not a penny more than $400.

Edit #5: I'd look real serious like at that old Smith Model 29. I'd probably go to $600 on it. Maybe more if it's as old as I think it is, that being the old deep glossy blue that Smith hasn't used in 30 years.

Speaking of "getting stuff for free" (Azure's post in my Rifle rescue thread ), a couple of weekends ago my best friend was helping one of our old high school friends move some stuff at his mom's house (which got trashed by hurricane Ike last year). Among the items to be moved/sold/whatever was a bunch of ammo that her late husband had.

She ended up giving my friend 800 rounds of Lake City 7.62 NATO.

Since he's got an M1A, he's a very happy guy right now.

See.

What's this?
http://redingsauction.com/8-15-09sm/pages/100_3811_jpeg.htm

I hate being stumped.

Czech CZ-52 (though the auction flyer has in incorrectly listed as a "QZ-52").

Looks to be threaded for a silencer.

The 7.62X25 Soviet ammo does not appear on Cheaper Than Dirt.

Er, 7.62x39.

From shootER's link...

I picture flow spreading his arms out Stossel style and saying "What now, beeyotch?"

ORLY?



Though they do appear to be out of stock on every other manufacucturer besides MagSafe.

Why do you need a TON of extra magazines for one rifle?

Zombies.

I'm gonna go by next week and peruse the selection. If there happen to be any bladed weapons, we'll know for sure that Mr. Ports was a certified zombie hunter.

He's got a torch set and 6 different kinds of saws...

The PC answer is that magazines will eventually wear out and I need enough to literally last me a lifetime because if the 1994 ban taught us anything, it's that the magazines I need for my weapon could be illegal tomorrow. So, I buy all I'll ever need now.

But, the real answer is:

^Absolutely.

I didn't stock up on hi-caps when I had the chance, now they're impossible to get in California.

Anyone know where I can get a hold of some pre-Clinton AR-15 magazines (no date code) that I could import as "spare parts" (which is, funnily enough, legal here)?

Can they say 'For Military/Government Use Only'?

Do tell, do tell!

You said it yourself.

"Though technically, it's not illegal to possess, only to import or manufacture."

Next time you're on business/vacation in a gun friendly state, buy an assload of 'em and put them in your checked luggage.

My nephew did exactly that. He wanted to have some hi-caps on hand "just in case."

Here's the problem: you can't take these out and shoot with them. (He can't anyway, because he doesn't have a registered AW; I do.)

If I wanted to assemble these into new magazines--and to all the Law Enforcement folks who may be monitoring this board: I would never, ever do anything like that...ever--they would be post-ban magazines which, though not illegal for me to possess, could be used as evidence against me on the charge of manufacturing them.

The trick is to get older, pre-ban magazines. Although still illegal to assemble, their lack of date code makes enforcement of the law impossible. Pre-ban magazines are assumed by the state to be legitimate and, since no reasonable means exists to trace them (barring a witness who rats you out), it ends there.