Big 5 Sporting Goods

[WeldonHunter]

My first Mosin Nagant came from Big5 and they are known to be over priced. I bought mine 12 years ago. A polish M44 for $69.99 and it's a fairly nice rifle though the bore was not that hot if I remember correctly. They offered no accessories for that price either. At the time they had a deal for about $179 for one they claimed was all matching serial numbers with an ammo pouch, sling, oil can and cleaning kit. I would say the all matching numbers was a forced match gun. That said they aren't know for having quality guns. I had to return a new Mossberg 500 I got from them for an exchange because the shell extractor was hanging up on the recess it goes into. The guy at the counter tried to convince me it just needed to be broken in while he's working the action back and forth quickly. Yeah right. I told him there's no way I'm going to shoot a gun that out of the box doesn't feed correctly. They exchanged the gun.

[desdem12]

I will have to stick up for Big 5 here a little. The regular prices are high but the sale prices are reasonable and they have sales all the time and get there mosins from the same places everyone else does. Yes sometimes the barrels are tired but i have seen good ones there too. I have a really good relationship with both stores here and can ususally get the sale price whenever i ask for it. A plus for me also is they let me check them all and also i can order one from any store that has what i want with no obligation to buy if i don't like it. A nother plus is the very cute girls behind the counter and the girls here have a really good knowledge of mosins and other milsurp rifles and if they don't they will ask me sometimes. I have never had a bad deal with Big 5 ....but i do get the GOOD treatment there and so they get some of my business. If you are lookin there strike up a convo with the managers or assitant mgrs. and see if you can't get some good deals there where you live. Just my 2 cents

[Junk Yard Dog]

Easy for me, we have no Big 5 or anything like it around here, only small gunshops selling remchesters and looking at milsurps like something they scraped off their shoes. Not that it would stop them from charging a $75-$100 transfer fee to get you one of course .