model 96 mauser

renfrowridge · 04-09-2006, 05:26 AM

What has happen to the price of this gun the price has went thru the roof. You use to buy them all day for $100.00 mil. type the last 8 or 9 of these I has seen the price start at $350.00 and go up from there. I know this gun will outshoot just about any rifle out there but time you sportrize it with scope , bend the bolt and a new stock you got $700.00 to $800.00 in them for a gun that is 100 years old. I own 6 of this gun and you dont have the money to buy any of them from me but the starting price is crasy. ? does this price stand true everwhere or just where I live here in Va.

260rem · 04-09-2006, 05:57 AM

You buy them down here for AU$350 they sold one called a M96 sporter deluxe that was made from stockpile surplus M96"™s that they put into a synthetic stock and turned the bolt and cut the barrel to 24". You could buy one new with a 6X40 silver crown scope for AU$450 and they sell for $350 second hand.
I have owned a few and loved them.

renfrowridge · 04-09-2006, 08:54 AM

I could live with $350.00 wish I was there to get a couple of them.

James B · 04-09-2006, 12:10 PM

Checkyour PM.

Vapodog · 04-09-2006, 01:46 PM

yes...they're high priced.....IMO way way over the value.....I can still get VZ-24 ('98 Mauser) for $150.......and wouldn't give a dime for a truckload of mausers prior to the model of 1898.

Obviously there are those that disagree with me,......
Let them buy them all they want....

Briman · 04-09-2006, 08:32 PM

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What has happen to the price of this gun the price has went thru the roof.

Here's a hint: They are outstanding rifles, they are no longer made, and importers no longer have warehouses full of them.

Overpriced? It all depends on how you see it. A rifle that was carefully and painstakenly put together with handfitted parts or a remington 700 mass produced from cheap stamped or potmetal parts? Take your pick.

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I can still get VZ-24 ('98 Mauser) for $150

$150 might buy you a VZ-24 with a shot out barrel, I haven't seen any for less than $200 that weren't completely shot out in a long time. $150 is still an excellent bargain for the action alone. Of course you can still find 98/22s that use the same action with good barrels for around $100, or unused 98/29s with the same action for around $200 ( I just love my 98/29

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sandilands · 04-10-2006, 11:22 AM

I have 2. A M38 and a M96, The M96 I got as a package deal, M96 barreled action and a P14 Enfield for $150. Couldn't go wrong. The M96 has been cut back to 22" and had a scope mounted. A Boyd bros stock addorns it, laminated. I glass bed the action, put a Timney trigger onand made some handloads w/ 140gr bullets. When I do my part she'll shoot inside 3/4" at 100yds 5 shots. Long story short..... somebody offered me $700 for it at the range. For $350 I wouldn't have bought my M96, b/c I wanted a barreled action only. $350 is a little steep anywhere you look but that is the going rate. People have seen them around and have come to like them, in my family there are 6. Resources have dried and the ones on the market are generally the ones that came in in the boom yrs. PS there is no way that rifle will ever leave my possession except when my wife wants to hunt w/it.

Charley · 04-10-2006, 11:42 AM

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What has happen to the price of this gun the price has went thru the roof. You use to buy them all day for $100.00 mil. type the last 8 or 9 of these I has seen the price start at $350.00 and go up from there. I know this gun will outshoot just about any rifle out there but time you sportrize it with scope , bend the bolt and a new stock you got $700.00 to $800.00 in them for a gun that is 100 years old. I own 6 of this gun and you dont have the money to buy any of them from me but the starting price is crasy. ? does this price stand true everwhere or just where I live here in Va.

It is called economics. No more produced, and no more for the Swedes to sell off. Demand for unaltered specimens is going up, and will continue to rise.
Same thing has happened to every surplus rifle since Bannerman bought and sold them. Priced a 1903 Springfieldlately?

Briman · 04-10-2006, 04:00 PM

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Priced a 1903 Springfieldlately?

How about an unbutchered Krag?

Vapodog · 04-10-2006, 09:40 PM

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I can still get VZ-24 ('98 Mauser) for $150

$150 might buy you a VZ-24 with a shot out barrel, I haven't seen any for less than $200 that weren't completely shot out in a long time. $150 is still an excellent bargain for the action alone.
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actually I paid $100 for this "shot out" VZ-24

well.....I added a bit to it then.....