Howa was contracted by US during occupation to make parts and repair USGI carbines plus they armed up the japan national police with their own made carbines....I like them and think they are very well made and would add one to my carbine collection along with a erma werkes , I have a 22lr erma werkes M1 carbine and it pretty nice. Any how I agree there are some crazy prices out there.These were not consignments, they were from the big collection SO purchased last summer. Different tags on consignment guns.
The HOWA carbines were nice but I could spend a little bit more (850 asking) at Patriot in Ipswich and get a real USGI Saginaw gun. Howa are basically a Japanese copy/repro.
I would always offer unless the price was right but when you start at 50% or more above what its worth, how do you counter? A $2000 garand that doesn't even have a cartouche on the wood, where do you start? The Remington 1917 for $750 was probably closest to real world pricing I saw.
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These were not consignments, they were from the big collection SO purchased last summer. Different tags on consignment guns.
The HOWA carbines were nice but I could spend a little bit more (850 asking) at Patriot in Ipswich and get a real USGI Saginaw gun. Howa are basically a Japanese copy/repro.
I would always offer unless the price was right but when you start at 50% or more above what its worth, how do you counter? A $2000 garand that doesn't even have a cartouche on the wood, where do you start? The Remington 1917 for $750 was probably closest to real world pricing I saw.
You need a lot of details when trying to justify a price. I have seen plenty of NM M1 garands with zero stamps and shiny glossy finish.
If the 2000$ M1 is nothing more than a service grade with new wood you start with going price I guess of 730$ is it a CMP special 1030$
The real problem begins when they cant even come close to justifying the asking price?
Like a enfield I had seen a while back wanted 900$ it was nice and all had nice target sights on it and such. Although other than that it eapears to me to be nothing more than a very good condition Canadian built rilfe with target sights....I would have paid 500$
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