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imanaknut
10-17-2012, 07:19 PM
This is wrong in so many ways. Need to chip in and get the seller reading glasses.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=312100041

NAPOTS
10-17-2012, 07:36 PM
This is wrong in so many ways. Need to chip in and get the seller reading glasses.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=312100041

I'd still be all over that for $500

insider
10-20-2012, 08:32 AM
Transition model!

imanaknut
10-20-2012, 12:02 PM
Seller called it an 84S but the pictures showed a "756S7" which yes, was one of those caught in port models that was "renamed" because the name was evil, and had the bayo lug ears smoothed down. Seller finally realized he had the wrong model in his headline and added information stating that.

WOD
10-20-2012, 02:23 PM
She is a pretty one nonetheless!

imanaknut
10-20-2012, 02:57 PM
She is a pretty one nonetheless!

Pretty yes, but the price of $900 and reserve not met is way too high for the rifle as is.

Of course from a true collector's point of view, the models that were held up by ATF because they had no idea what Bush1 meant when he ordered them to follow the letter of the sporting purpose clause could hold a value as testimony to how stupid a person can be and still become president. With respect to Bush1 as he was a true war hero, he was also an idiot with an agenda. When he ordered ATF to follow the sporting purpose clause of the 1968 GCA, they didn't know how to react other than he complained about flash hiders, bayonets, pistol grips, removable external magazines, and that infamous name.

Their first move was to order the importers to change the name, remove the bayo lug, and weld something over the evil threads on the muzzle. When that wasn't good enough for Bush1, they had the pistol grips and standard stock removed, and the wonderful Bush-hole stock installed. Later they changed the names completely, had the rifles made without threads on the muzzle and nothing that could possibly lock a bayo in place.

It got really silly as importers, and the various manufacturers came out with new versions of the exact same rifle, that just looked a bit different and had different names.

The 756S7 in the auction does represent a time in history so technically one can say to a collector it might hold a value in the future. Just that my crystal ball is a bit fuzzy. Still haven't learned anything from seeing Norinco AKMs selling for under $300 back in the 1980s! :smiley31: