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Title: I found my next rifle
Post by: bkoenig on July 27, 2014, 11:25:05 AM: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=430972106 (http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=430972106)

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Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: RobertH on July 27, 2014, 11:50:45 AM: wow. And i thought Mossbergs tactical lever was ugly.
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: gsd on July 27, 2014, 12:09:12 PM: What. The. Actual. F&$@...

I kinda want to buy it, just to kill it with fire.
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: shooter on July 27, 2014, 01:17:18 PM: well the barrel and action look good!
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: tstuart34 on July 27, 2014, 02:30:10 PM: It's a ART!
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: ILoveCats on July 27, 2014, 04:25:06 PM: I tried to count all the things that made me say "WTF" and gave up at fifteen.
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: Hardwood83 on July 27, 2014, 06:24:18 PM: A rifle that has '?' in the description? sign me up!

Not that I really care, but is 'legal' to sell a firearm without a serial number?
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: bkoenig on July 27, 2014, 06:52:38 PM: Quote from: Hardwood83 on July 27, 2014, 06:24:18 PM
A rifle that has '?' in the description? sign me up!

Not that I really care, but is 'legal' to sell a firearm without a serial number?

If it was produced prior to 1968 it was not required to have a serial number. A lot of milsurps have the serial number on the barrel instead of the receiver. If it was rebarreled that would explain the missing number.

Considering the quality of workmanship on the rest of it, I don't think I'd trust the action and barrel. I wouldn't put it past them to screw on a new barrel without bothering with headspace.
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: DenmanShooter on July 27, 2014, 07:14:55 PM: The stock looks like poorly machined aluminum and there is this...

"There's wood in the magazine well."

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Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: altheman2 on July 27, 2014, 09:35:36 PM: Hey its a one of a kind! No one on the world has one like it! Could be a million dollar gun :laugh:
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: bk09 on July 30, 2014, 03:59:29 PM: If HiPoint made a .223 then I bet it would look close to this.
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: Hardwood83 on July 30, 2014, 06:12:36 PM: It sold for $180. Talk about more money then sense!
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: SeanN on July 30, 2014, 06:24:46 PM: The hell?
Title: Re: I found my next rifle
Post by: bkoenig on July 30, 2014, 08:21:39 PM: A few years back I was helping with the hunter sight in day at the Ike's range in Lincoln. A couple of guys (who, frankly, didn't seem all that smart) showed up with the ugliest, most beat up old Mossberg .22 I've ever seen. Someone had tried to "carve" a design into the stock, the metal was covered in flaking black paint, the rear peep sight swung back and forth like a weathervane, etc. If I remember correctly the owner told me he paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 for the thing, and he was pretty proud of his new toy. It patterned about like a shotgun at 25 yards.

It was sold to him by a certain local dealer who has a reputation for being a little shady. I didn't have the heart to tell him he got screwed. I guess it goes to show that P.T. Barnum was right.