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Title: Need a price range
Post by: Eric19 on August 25, 2013, 11:11:42 AM: I'm at an auction right now with an IBM m1 carbine in very good condition with bayonet lug and case would like to know what you guys would pay for one right
Title: Re: Need a price range
Post by: bigsky on August 25, 2013, 11:46:55 AM: they go for @$800 from what have seen. I bought a winchester m1 carbine 20 years ago for $225. Then traded it for a toolbox. I still have the toolbox.
Title: Re: Need a price range
Post by: Eric19 on August 25, 2013, 04:42:27 PM: I'm back from the auction and the M1 carbine went for $925 it was made by I.B.M. Corp. everything went high as usual at those types of auctions but I did get a USMC Ka-Bar knife for $62.50 with leather sheath USMC stamp on it
Title: Re: Need a price range
Post by: uptown on August 25, 2013, 10:05:03 PM: I seen one go at a gun auction this summer for 150 bucks. The condition was fair to good.
Title: Re: Need a price range
Post by: SIK1 on August 25, 2013, 10:10:16 PM: I'd be careful about buying at an auction. Emotions can run high and overtake common sense when you get caught up in the high of bidding on something against other people. Also make sure you can thoroughly look the firearm over, and preferably shoot it before you buy it.
Title: Re: Need a price range
Post by: Spikes on August 25, 2013, 10:36:12 PM: Quote from: Eric19 on August 25, 2013, 04:42:27 PM
I'm back from the auction and the M1 carbine went for $925 it was made by I.B.M. Corp. everything went high as usual at those types of auctions but I did get a USMC Ka-Bar knife for $62.50 with leather sheath USMC stamp on it
62? Wow. Ours sell at my work cheaper than that.
Title: Re: Need a price range
Post by: Eric19 on August 26, 2013, 06:26:47 AM: Quote from: Spikes on August 25, 2013, 10:36:12 PM
62? Wow. Ours sell at my work cheaper than that.
I looked them up on the internet before I went bidding away my money lol there about $120 new and this one looks to be about late 1940s
Title: Re: Need a price range
Post by: gyrene81 on August 26, 2013, 12:31:03 PM: if it was a 1940s issued kbar, you got a decent deal. you can get brand new for about $85, usmc stamped.