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I'm sure many of you have known about Pat Burns' M39s for quite some time. I was just wondering, are these holiday sales recurring or is this new? I can't help but be curious about the numbers of rifles she keeps cranking out. Hell, she could probably arm a small army! She not only has the gunsand ammo.com website, but also runs offerings on GunBroker.
The reason I'm curious is that she has been offering a larger selection of weapons with "damaged" (so to speak) stocks. Is it possible she is finally running low? Is she just seizing a good opportunity to clear her stock? I don't know.
Seems like she would have to run out sooner or later. THAT would be depressing.
This is the first year that I have seen this "sale" and really loading up the site with new rifles. She should have enough for a small army - she and, I believe, her husband purchased the entire M-39 surplus inventory. That would be a cool story to hear since I don't really know the particulars. But, that is why you don't see them anywhere else. Oh, you'll see some on GB once in a while that don't appear to be from her inventory and you will see ones that are obviously from her but try and find "new" refurbs out there from other than her. You won't.
You would have to ask here why she is doing this. I don't see it as a move one would make if they were running out of inventory. A certain percentage of her rifles will be damaged. It only appears that there are more damaged ones hitting now. You have to remember that there is also a lot more in numbers hitting the site too. My sense is that she is trying to unload the inventory at a faster pace. Why? Who knows. Why don't you ask her?
Burns' M39's have been a great source of quality rifles. If your seeing more 'damaged' stocks it could be that prices are such that rifles that may not have brought high prices before are getting it currently. I have seen several M39's on auction sites asking BIG $ FOR "IFFY" (damaged) $ 275.00 rifles......just seems to be the current market
TopperT wrote:Burns' M39's have been a great source of quality rifles. If your seeing more 'damaged' stocks it could be that prices are such that rifles that may not have brought high prices before are getting it currently. I have seen several M39's on auction sites asking BIG $ FOR "IFFY" (damaged) $ 275.00 rifles......just seems to be the current market
It's called she's getting further into her stockpiles... Who knows when she will run out, but the inventory is reducing at a steady pace.
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She puts out damaged stock rifles about a few times a year and more so on gb.
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
I always picture this huge warehouse stacked to the ceilings with crates of M-39's. Probably far from that but I really don't know that she knows what she has until they break into a new crate to clean, photograph and put up on the site. Someone must have a manifest of these rifles either from doing an inventory or from an initial invoice. Maybe someone has already been through all of them and has cataloged it all. who knows.
Might have come in on pallets only and have to start at the top and go down.
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
I've noticed how she sometimes shows rifles as "Sold", removes them from the list and then they show up again on the next list of rifles she posts for sale. One thing is certain, she has sold a bunch and there are many M39s out there now. So I believe the market is stable where it is now and the prices are solid currently. I believe any increase in retail pricing will be minimal for quite a while now. I bought my first M39 from her about two years ago when the number of hits on her site was at 184,000+. Now they are at 448,708. She sure has a lot of 1944s posted right now.
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