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The Lithgow FN I had to sell, because it had a Century firearms receiver. Wouldn't cycle the bolt despite adjusting the gas port. Effectively making it a single shot rifle. There are exactly THREE dedicated FN gunsmiths in the US. One in Miami Florida, One in Scottsdale Arizona and one in Eugene Oregon. I happened to be in Arizona at the time and took the rifle to that gunsmith. He worked that rifle for three days, trying to fix it, couldn't get it to cycle no matter how hard he tried. Came to conclusion that it needed a Imbel made receiver, and between the replacement receiver and installation, would have set me back over $1100 (On a then cost me $500 rifle). I sold the rifle a few months later, though made a $200 profit. Sadly the shop did some checking on the history on the rifle, served in Vietnam 1969-1971 with Australian Special Forces.
I acquired the StG-58 at the same gunshow for what I sold the Lithgow for, insuring it too had a Imbel receiver (seen here https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1247982/ )
The Ex-Isreali LAR I bought at a gunshow 3 years prior. What got me was the guy had it on his table all weekend and nobody bought it. (I was selling at the same show) And he was interested in a .32 (7.65) pistol I had at the time on my table for $180 and wanted to trade if possible towards something on his table. The LAR looked impressive, then said to me "I'll need another $100 if you want that." I thought the rifle was a demilled 'display' gun since it was so cheap! Til he showed me how to open it up and remove the bolt assembly to clean it. Needless to say, that was the fastest I whipped out $100.
A buddy was with me at the show, was stunned I got it for practically nothing (The .32 pistol I acquired a few years prior for $129 used.) and I bought 60 rounds of .308 for it. And on the way home my buddy was saying constantly "Deerfield is on the way home!!! (Local to us shooting range) and it was POURING RAIN, but no, he loaded up 2 mags with ammo and we parked our asses in a downpour of rain, and we just pointed the rifle in the direction of the berm and just blasted away, giggling like school girls. The sounds of that heavy rifle pounding rounds in a heavy rain got the shooting club to step outside and watch us like we were morons. Til one member asked us "What the hell you shooting in this rain?" we yelled back "A Poor mans BAR!" That got the club to literally approach us in the rain and ooh and ahh at the rifle.
I still have that beast of a rifle, weighs as much as a BAR , sadly my ex gave away my extra 12 magazines I had for it in a WW2 BAR Gunners belt. (She'd later sold roughly 85% of my stored ammo in a fireproof safe she had at her place last year, including most of my .308 ammo , .303 and .30-06 and all of my 8mm Mauser ammo cause of the pandemic drove the price of ammo to stupid levels and her friend waved money at her. (He later resold it for HUGE bucks!) But that LAR has an Imbel receiver!!
FN's have gotten stupidly expensive now. That LAR rifle is now valued at over $6000!! I had a FN-49, ex-Columbian, it too was a problematic rifle , but sold it for double what i paid for it years ago. The StG-58 I'm keeping no matter what, maybe...MAYBE I'll sell the FN LAR, providing i get current market price at a later date.
I acquired the StG-58 at the same gunshow for what I sold the Lithgow for, insuring it too had a Imbel receiver (seen here https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1247982/ )
The Ex-Isreali LAR I bought at a gunshow 3 years prior. What got me was the guy had it on his table all weekend and nobody bought it. (I was selling at the same show) And he was interested in a .32 (7.65) pistol I had at the time on my table for $180 and wanted to trade if possible towards something on his table. The LAR looked impressive, then said to me "I'll need another $100 if you want that." I thought the rifle was a demilled 'display' gun since it was so cheap! Til he showed me how to open it up and remove the bolt assembly to clean it. Needless to say, that was the fastest I whipped out $100.
A buddy was with me at the show, was stunned I got it for practically nothing (The .32 pistol I acquired a few years prior for $129 used.) and I bought 60 rounds of .308 for it. And on the way home my buddy was saying constantly "Deerfield is on the way home!!! (Local to us shooting range) and it was POURING RAIN, but no, he loaded up 2 mags with ammo and we parked our asses in a downpour of rain, and we just pointed the rifle in the direction of the berm and just blasted away, giggling like school girls. The sounds of that heavy rifle pounding rounds in a heavy rain got the shooting club to step outside and watch us like we were morons. Til one member asked us "What the hell you shooting in this rain?" we yelled back "A Poor mans BAR!" That got the club to literally approach us in the rain and ooh and ahh at the rifle.
I still have that beast of a rifle, weighs as much as a BAR , sadly my ex gave away my extra 12 magazines I had for it in a WW2 BAR Gunners belt. (She'd later sold roughly 85% of my stored ammo in a fireproof safe she had at her place last year, including most of my .308 ammo , .303 and .30-06 and all of my 8mm Mauser ammo cause of the pandemic drove the price of ammo to stupid levels and her friend waved money at her. (He later resold it for HUGE bucks!) But that LAR has an Imbel receiver!!
FN's have gotten stupidly expensive now. That LAR rifle is now valued at over $6000!! I had a FN-49, ex-Columbian, it too was a problematic rifle , but sold it for double what i paid for it years ago. The StG-58 I'm keeping no matter what, maybe...MAYBE I'll sell the FN LAR, providing i get current market price at a later date.
You think thats something, I USED to own 26 Mosin Nagant Rifles and carbines of various makes, models, nationalities. I'm down to like 11 now. When Russia dumped their reserves on the market. M91s were as cheap as $29, now that the reserves are long gone, they average over $500. Plus own all the M44 carbines made by the member nations of the Warsaw Pact.
My rarest is one of three known prototypes of the M44 carbine. Where they used a 1916 dated M91 rifle and cut it down, adding the folding bayonet. Its sights are still rifle set in Arshins. I found out I have to have the sights set at 600 arshins just to get the round roughly on paper at 100 meters. That and the bore is seriously shot out. So it sits as a collectable. My oldest is a 1894 M91 three band that was captured by the Finns and stamped with the boxed SA and recaptured by the Soviets. Plus have a Ministry of Defense marked M91-30 used by Kremlin guards, Tula Arsenal , hex receiver, 1929 date.
And yes, even have a M91-30 Sniper with a PU scope bought years before Century arms started "Importing" in "Sniper rifles". Century got their hands on a buttload of surplus mounts and PU scopes and literally added them to regular M91-30s and even a few M44s (Which NEVER were scoped, but dumb-assed Americans will buy them cause its a SNIPER Carbine!). The numbers all match and the bolt isn't ground down and restamped, plus the stock is dove tailed midway for strength (Regular M91s were never dove tailed). Plus snipers cleaned their own weapons, not group cleaned them. So all the numbers match.
Plus the Soviets were notorious for "Cleaning parties" among the troops, mass cleaning, slap a bolt on the gun cause its a bolt right? 90% of the rifles never had matching numbers between bolt and receivers. Later the Russians discovered that those mismatched parts didn't appeal to the Gun hungry Americans and especially the collectors. They simply ground down the bolt and restamped the receiver number. So those bolts showed a dishing in the metal. Plus too often you'd get what I called "The Nagant Slap", where you literally had to slap the bolt up to get it to extract the case after firing. I've seen some Nagant rifles where you had to take a rubber mallet to beat the bolt open. All my Nagants were original with matching parts and unground bolts.
I even once had a M38 carbine I bought at a gunshow just to get the cleaning Rod for $15, the carbine was literally burnt. I asked the seller about its condition, he picked it up as a war prize during the Korean War. Said that he was pinned down getting shot at by a North Korean unit and one soldier was determined to kill him, til he and the others were napalmed by a Marine Corps Corsair. He later found the baked soldier and took that carbine. The bolt was 'frozen' in partial extraction. Plus you could see the unburnt portion where he was holding it. I managed to beat the bolt open and used a .50 garrison rod to drive out a British .303 round jammed in the chamber. I saw that same seller a month later told him what I found. He said "We were along side a Canadian unit at the time. I bet that peasant soldier killed a Canadian, saw the rimmed ammo and figured it will fire in the carbine." The fire weakened the springs severely, useless to shoot without a very long hang time. I sold that carbine years later for $100. But have a cherry 1939 dated M38 instead to keep as an example.
My rarest is one of three known prototypes of the M44 carbine. Where they used a 1916 dated M91 rifle and cut it down, adding the folding bayonet. Its sights are still rifle set in Arshins. I found out I have to have the sights set at 600 arshins just to get the round roughly on paper at 100 meters. That and the bore is seriously shot out. So it sits as a collectable. My oldest is a 1894 M91 three band that was captured by the Finns and stamped with the boxed SA and recaptured by the Soviets. Plus have a Ministry of Defense marked M91-30 used by Kremlin guards, Tula Arsenal , hex receiver, 1929 date.
And yes, even have a M91-30 Sniper with a PU scope bought years before Century arms started "Importing" in "Sniper rifles". Century got their hands on a buttload of surplus mounts and PU scopes and literally added them to regular M91-30s and even a few M44s (Which NEVER were scoped, but dumb-assed Americans will buy them cause its a SNIPER Carbine!). The numbers all match and the bolt isn't ground down and restamped, plus the stock is dove tailed midway for strength (Regular M91s were never dove tailed). Plus snipers cleaned their own weapons, not group cleaned them. So all the numbers match.
Plus the Soviets were notorious for "Cleaning parties" among the troops, mass cleaning, slap a bolt on the gun cause its a bolt right? 90% of the rifles never had matching numbers between bolt and receivers. Later the Russians discovered that those mismatched parts didn't appeal to the Gun hungry Americans and especially the collectors. They simply ground down the bolt and restamped the receiver number. So those bolts showed a dishing in the metal. Plus too often you'd get what I called "The Nagant Slap", where you literally had to slap the bolt up to get it to extract the case after firing. I've seen some Nagant rifles where you had to take a rubber mallet to beat the bolt open. All my Nagants were original with matching parts and unground bolts.
I even once had a M38 carbine I bought at a gunshow just to get the cleaning Rod for $15, the carbine was literally burnt. I asked the seller about its condition, he picked it up as a war prize during the Korean War. Said that he was pinned down getting shot at by a North Korean unit and one soldier was determined to kill him, til he and the others were napalmed by a Marine Corps Corsair. He later found the baked soldier and took that carbine. The bolt was 'frozen' in partial extraction. Plus you could see the unburnt portion where he was holding it. I managed to beat the bolt open and used a .50 garrison rod to drive out a British .303 round jammed in the chamber. I saw that same seller a month later told him what I found. He said "We were along side a Canadian unit at the time. I bet that peasant soldier killed a Canadian, saw the rimmed ammo and figured it will fire in the carbine." The fire weakened the springs severely, useless to shoot without a very long hang time. I sold that carbine years later for $100. But have a cherry 1939 dated M38 instead to keep as an example.
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