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ive watched this gun on GB for a while....now i see it on Subguns for a good price....considering it

 

anyone know the seller?

 

serial #174----any issues with such a low serial #....i found out they started with #100, so this is gun #74...i find low serial #'s cool

 

what is that stain on the stock?

 

is the sheen of the stock correct for original finish?

 

being an early gun w/ a selector the trigger is still 1/2 pull semi, full pull=FA right?

 

mags still available from century or sold out?

 

parts? if something breaks am i screwed?

 

i dont know why i like this gun....maybe because i have a Mac 10....i like guns that are different.....im oddly attracted to this gun and have been watching it on GB for months.....now the price is making it hard to stay away from

 

thanks for any advice

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FA still functions as you describe with semi function with partial trigger and FA on full trigger pull with selector on 'auto'. With selector on semi, that is all you get. The select fire design of the sear and trigger is ingenious.

Finish looks excellent as does the wood.

I have reactivated several of these guns belonging to customers. They are really interesting with a fairly high rpm, are very simple and seem like they are pretty durable. Parts are very hard to find, especially extractors, bolts, front grip barrel rings and fire control parts. Barrels have been reproduced but with the eccentric ramp at the breech uncut. Probably not many repro barrels around, but it is not a complex barrel to make. Mags are scarce and very expensive.

Buying a functioning, complete gun is advisable........

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Apparently you never contacted the seller when you mentioned this a couple weeks ago? You'd probably be the new owner at 5500? He does not have two, I'm 95% sure about that. I have one in a case complete and prefer it over a Thomson. I considered sending him an email last night offering to buy it at that price. Parts are available, though scarce. There isn't much to break. Mags are not scarce at all, but they are not cheap. There are even repro mags that hit the market a while back. Snooze you lose. Another will come up, but unlikely at that price. Priced about even with a Reising, that was a good deal.

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I actually

Did contact him over a month ago asking for better pics. He did respond but never sent me the pics. I did ask him now to be 2nd on his list. Seems 25% of buyers back out

So maybe I'll grab it still

 

Neat gun. But not popular w most It's never going to be an investment gun. It will always be at the bottom.

 

I watched it on gb for ever. He had a $6k bid once. If I knew he was open to $5,500 it would have been mine long ago

 

Oh well

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Johnson41: have two in the shop for reactivation but need two extractors, two front grip barrel rings, two barrels and one excellent bolt, or two bolts if possible since once bolt is heavily damaged. Do you have any of these parts available?

One of the owners of these guns recently bought a really pristine ,af for $250, since he could not find a repro or less expensive mag. Not sure where he looked, but that was what he decided out of frustration to do when he finally found one for sale......

For those who may not know:

Jeff Cooper specializes in Ingram and M6 parts, but is running out of small parts for the M6s.

Macmodel10@yahoo.com; 770-967-9125

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Serial #174 was the 75th M6 made. I have #147.

 

Century bought the SAMCO inventory at the bankruptcy sale, and they now have the 300+ M6 mags that SAMCO formerly had in inventory. They sold 30 of the mags at Knob Creek at reduced prices last month, and they have them available for $129.95 each on their website.

 

David Albert

dalbert@sturmgewehr.com

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The parts that are here are spares for my guns, so there's no spare spares so to speak. Scott Andrey also makes parts, the barrel is easy, the extension more complicated, but if I recall when I had him do some other parts he noted he could do barrels for sure. The extractors are fairly simple looking, I'd check with him on that as well, but if I needed one I'd make one starting with something common and work it down. David has you covered on the mags. There will be no "run" on those since there aren't that many guns/ owners if they have 300 and if I recall they are new? Lots of guys on gunbroker advertise stock parts from numrich as well at a large markup.......sometimes people bite? HTH

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