Originally Posted by
Fjallhrafn
Fair enough.
I don't see these as being either readily available or reasonably priced, though: They're a handful of rifles being sold for north of $4000. I'm not saying that it's not better than it was, but I don't see them as being readily available or reasonably priced.
Personally, I'd really like to pick one of these 551-2s up. But I suspect that by the time I've got the money to pick one up (sometime late this year/early next year), there won't be any, even at the 'reasonable' price of c. $4000.
Well this is as "readily available" as they are going to get, I suppose that is the point I was trying to make. Come back in 2 years and you won't be able to find them at all from a distributor and they will be "collector priced" around $9k.
As for "reasonable price", I think right now these sell on the open market for about $3500 NIB. Granted $4k for a slightly used one is a bit more than the going rate internationally, but it's better than paying $15,000 for e transferable M-16 which goes for about $1,100.00 internationally.
From a practical standpoint there are of course better guns for the money. But nobody ever accused firearm collectors of being practical.
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