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Re: L98 cadet rifle
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 8:28 am
by David TS
HALODIN wrote:So is £3.5K about right?
No, not unless you luck out.
For someone that knows the value, and having the right seller and purchaser at the same time, you would probably have to be looking north of £5k for one.
Re: L98 cadet rifle
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:07 am
by nickb834
David TS wrote:HALODIN wrote:So is £3.5K about right?
No, not unless you luck out.
For someone that knows the value, and having the right seller and purchaser at the same time, you would probably have to be looking north of £5k for one.
F.me.sideways...
Re: L98 cadet rifle
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:40 am
by David TS
nickb834 wrote:David TS wrote:HALODIN wrote:So is £3.5K about right?
No, not unless you luck out.
For someone that knows the value, and having the right seller and purchaser at the same time, you would probably have to be looking north of £5k for one.
F.me.sideways...
It's a kind offer, but we hardly know each other
It's the rarity value. I wanted one, I searched for two years before it came up. It's the last rifle that will ever be sold out of my cabinet!
Re: L98 cadet rifle
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:50 am
by Charlotte the flyer
As long as there are more people looking for one than there are rifles available, the price will unfortunately be whatever the market is willing to pay. The only time that this will change is when a) everyone who wants one ends up owning one or b) more come onto the market.
Presumably the same is true for the L42 and No4T
Re: L98 cadet rifle
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:31 pm
by David TS
tackb wrote:Well apparently it was assembled from roadway green parts by a guy who brought up all their old stock? It has a new barrel and receiver with a very low round count , iron sights and susat, sling and cleaning kit and mags but not RG mags .
It truly is immaculate as is all my buddies kit
Thanks for all your answers so far
ROF Radway Green (not roadway) were never involved in the manufacture of the L98 (or the L85). Magazines and ammunition yes, never the rifles.
ALL trials and prototyping of the L98 and L85 were carried out at ROF Enfield, who also manufactured the first tranche of weapons after official handover into service.
The Royal Ordnance Factories were sold to BAE in 1988, and the second and subsequent tranches of production were transferred to a new BAE facility at RO Nottingham.
FWIIW also, he doesn't need to worry that it doesn't have RG magazines as they are crappy, the later redesigned HK ones (L85A2 spec) are much better (and I use Magpul polymer EMAG's, which have now been adopted into service, which are better again).