M44 help

[mperry985]

Just joined the forum and I have a question, I have 2 m44s
1948 Izhevsk
1944 tula
Both great shape, what could I realistically ask for them??

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[shoto2758]

Welcome.
Pictures would help to put a price on them.
M44's could go between $220 -$300..Depends.
Show us what you have.

[steelbuttplate]

On Here, I'd be thinking also what could I trade em for......There is a buy sell trade page on here....go to the Board index and scroll towards the bottom.........SBP

[Junk Yard Dog]

Any one of these guys would gladly give you fifty bucks each for them, but I would hold out for a minimum of $200 on the '48, and $300 on the Tula. When I want to know what the real market price on anything is, the price real people are paying right now, I monitor auctions on gunbroker.com. You understand that Tula made M44's only in that one year of 1944 right? This makes them more rare than Izhevsk made M44's unless it's one of the 1943 trials rifles. 1948 was the last year Izhevsk made M44's, and it was a lower production year.

[mperry985]

Yes I did do some research when I and found out about the production of the tula 44s and izhevsk

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[mperry985]

That's the 48

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[mperry985]

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[mperry985]

44 tula that's on its way to me now, just ordered it monday

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[mperry985]

Well I my reply is not showing up so let me try this again

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[mperry985]

The 1944 Tula

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[mperry985]

And the 1948 izhevsk

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[ParrotHead]

You haven't even received it yet,and are selling it?

[mperry985]

No no, just curious as to what these go for realistically, I got it in a no reserve auction, plan on keeping it a while

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[bunkysdad]

In that case the price will increase before you ever sell them. These are going up. You got 2 nice ones there.

[mperry985]

Thanks, these are my first 2 mosins, I'm hoping they go up, but for now I think I'll hold on to them since the ammo is so cheap

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[SA1911a1]

Not many people have a '48. It shouldn't surprise me if it could fetch $400.00 in the right place at the right time.

[Junk Yard Dog]

'48 wasn't the one I had the most trouble with, I had a '48, and two '43's before I had a '47. '47 was the one that eluded me the longest. $400, I didn't pay that for both of my '43's together, but that was then, and this is now....that kind of makes now sound like less fun doesn't it?

[Junk Yard Dog]

Come to think on it I had the '44 Tula, '39, and '45 M38, and the "48" stamped M39 before I had that '47 M44.

[mperry985]

Yeah, just from the gew months I've been looking I've seen the prices rise

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[Junk Yard Dog]

It will rise fastest on the less common stuff, both of yours fall into that category. I got both of mine by chance, a simple purchase of a regular Soviet import M44 from Aim, or Classic, or some dealer on GB, I forget now. Back then they stuffed whatever was on the top of the stack into the box, you paid your $79 ( unless I bought it because it was on sale) and you got what you got. Some dealers back then didn't even know yet that 1943 was a special year for the M44, most Mosins seemed to be 1943, it was the most common year so nobody paid attention to it on the M44.