Gun value?

[coobie]

I know the price of ammo has been covered, but is anyone up on current gun values. I have been wanting .223 for a while. I talked to a cousin last night that has three he would sell. He has a blue and a stainless mini 14 and the other I'm sure I can't afford. He said it is a pre ban Colt AR 15 that has never been fired. I'm going to his house next week to look at them, but don't know what kind of deal I'll be looking at. Any advice from the experts? Thanks, JC

I just bought a stainless ruger mini 14 target model in 223 cal. for $759 they list for $1035.The pre-ban colt is going to be high $$$.coobie

 

[Sigarms]

This is the sight picture I prefer:

Hey, nothing wrong with this one!

I talked to a cousin last night that has three he would sell. He has a blue and a stainless mini 14 and the other I'm sure I can't afford. He said it is a pre ban Colt AR 15 that has never been fired

Your cousin sounds like my wifes cousin who tried to sell me an AK a couple of years ago.

We'll see what kind of blood he is when you give us his asking price. A gun (like anything else) is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

The question is what do YOU want to buy and will you shoot it?

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

depends on what you want.....just something to plink .223, then find a used bolt action....

but it sounds like you want a cool looking gun

the prices have jumped......i traded my AR off a few years back, for an 8N no less, and they have since gone up and seem to be relatively hard to get (try not to make thread go south!)........i think the AR is hard to beat..

don't pay a premium for the colt unless you want it for what it is....if you want something just as nice then take your pick; rock river, dpms, bushmaster, you name it....most are pretty good right now.........

i'd say the ar, over the m14, is much more versatile and personally customizable.....

let us know if your cousin offers you the "well, being you and all, i'd you have it for........."

 

[sandman2234]

I purchased an Stainless AC-556 advertised on the 'net with somebody else's money,(which I eventually repaid). Since Ruger is rumored to be a pain when it comes to working on them for non LEO owners, I purchased a couple of Mini-14 to be used as parts guns in case I should ever need them (all pre clinton's ban). I paid new from wally world $369 for a blued ranch model, and bought a S/S folder from a friends pawn shop for $400. The AC was supposed to have a folder stock but when I got to looking at the picture he sent me while waiting on the paperwork to clear, I realized the folding stock was blued, not S/S. I confronted the seller, who asked me where I had heard about the gun, and it turned out I had seen it on the only place he didn't remember to edit in the blued folder stock. So I found just a S/S folder on ebay, that starting bid was $300 and agreed to take $350 for the S/S as long as I got to keep the blued stock. He sent the check.
One of the mini-14's has a .22 conversion kit (Ceiner) in it that came with the AC-556. Figured it would be neat to have one set up with that available, and not have to go thru the trouble of installing/uninstalling it from the AC. My AC also has an older version of the red dot scope on it. Make it neat for low light pinpointing.
I gave a good friend an almost new DPMS AR-15 for a bunch of work he did to help me. He could stand some spare cash right now, so I offered to buy it back last week. He just gave it back to me, so I had to find something else for him to do to earn the money I really should have paid him for the gun. Sometimes friends are hard to deal with, lol!!
David from jax

 

[RollTideRam]

I still have not looked at the guns, but the price he is asking, is close to what he gave for them. $600 for the stainless Ruger and $1225 for the Colt. I wish I could buy both and sell the Colt to pay for half of the Ruger. With my job future, I don't think I could keep the Colt. JC

 

[Podunkadunk]

Roll Tide,
I don't mean to sound presumptuous, but I bet if you bought them both, it'd be the Ruger you'd be selling to get a little of your money back

There's more to a Colt than just the name as I've heard people say before. Unless you get a Colt or a Noveske, you won't find another AR out there on the civilian market that's closer to being true Military Specification. A Rolex and a Timex will both keep time, but I bet a lot of people would buy the Rolex if $ was no matter.

Podunk

 

[chh]

I wish you were closer to OK. I'd hit him up for the Colt and then you could buy the Ruger.

 

[SkyPup]

Skypup,

This is the sight picture I prefer:

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Podunk

One of my best friends son just returned home from his second tour in Iraq (he did a tour in Afganny too). He is now stateside and a Sniper Instructor with his Lupa .338 SIG Blazer long range rifle up at Fort Benning in Georgia.

I showed him my other SIG 556 with the unmagnified Eotech 512 on it and the more than dozen feral hogs I've taken with it up to 550 pounds out to 125 yards and he said that was great for CQB but that was all.

He then tried to sell me on the 4X ACOG for my rifle.

I checked them out carefully, but then realized he's only 23 years old, less than 1/2 my age, and my astimatigatic cornea and worn out rods and cones behind the bifocals were going to require something more than what he was talking about, so that's why I ended up with the variable Burris unit with the red dot to take full advantage of the 5.56mm NATO cartridge ballistics and my aging eyesight!

 

[Podunkadunk]

One of my best friends son just returned home from his second tour in Iraq (he did a tour in Afganny too). He is now stateside and a Sniper Instructor with his Lupa .338 SIG Blazer long range rifle up at Fort Benning in Georgia.

I showed him my other SIG 556 with the unmagnified Eotech 512 on it and the more than dozen feral hogs I've taken with it up to 550 pounds out to 125 yards and he said that was great for CQB but that was all.

He then tried to sell me on the 4X ACOG for my rifle.

I checked them out carefully, but then realized he's only 23 years old, less than 1/2 my age, and my astimatigatic cornea and worn out rods and cones behind the bifocals were going to require something more than what he was talking about, so that's why I ended up with the variable Burris unit with the red dot to take full advantage of the 5.56mm NATO cartridge ballistics and my aging eyesight!

I thank him for his service! Also, it's a testament to the ACOG that an Army guy would be trying to sell you on it. The Army uses the Aimpoint Comp, almost exclusively, not Trijicon's ACOG. The Marines have the contract for the ACOG are the ones who worked with Trijicon to produce certain models of it. So, to hear that from an Army Sniper really says something about it. Not saying that ALL Army doesn't use the ACOG. SpecOps guys pretty much have their own budget and can operate just about anything they want to buy.

I can't imagine that you couldn't see the illuminated reticle in the ACOG. It's bright as the dickens during the day, but at night, not to the point of being a distraction or bleaching out the rods in your eye. My eyesight isn't what it used to be either. I'm farsighted.

What I really like about the ACOG is the built in ranging system that doesn't require a year of schooling to figure out. The Chevron is 19" across. The average width of a man's shoulders is 19", from inside of armpit to inside of armpit. At 100 meters, the Chevron should fit evenly in there. The verticle lines below represent the same type of gauging.

Your EoTech and your Burris are fine optics. You won't hear me saying otherwise. Since you have what you have, I wouldn't change a thing and even more so since you've gotten used to them

Podunk

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

Was that part of the stuff you gave to charity? Did you get her last name?

I thank him for his service! Also, it's a testament to the ACOG that an Army guy would be trying to sell you on it. The Army uses the Aimpoint Comp, almost exclusively, not Trijicon's ACOG. The Marines have the contract for the ACOG are the ones who worked with Trijicon to produce certain models of it. So, to hear that from an Army Sniper really says something about it. Not saying that ALL Army doesn't use the ACOG. SpecOps guys pretty much have their own budget and can operate just about anything they want to buy.

I can't imagine that you couldn't see the illuminated reticle in the ACOG. It's bright as the dickens during the day, but at night, not to the point of being a distraction or bleaching out the rods in your eye. My eyesight isn't what it used to be either. I'm farsighted.

What I really like about the ACOG is the built in ranging system that doesn't require a year of schooling to figure out. The Chevron is 19" across. The average width of a man's shoulders is 19", from inside of armpit to inside of armpit. At 100 meters, the Chevron should fit evenly in there. The verticle lines below represent the same type of gauging.

Your EoTech and your Burris are fine optics. You won't hear me saying otherwise. Since you have what you have, I wouldn't change a thing and even more so since you've gotten used to them

Podunk