Seling a rifle: clean off cosmo or leave as is?

[weasel_master]

I need to get rid of a few rifles that I have sitting around. I have never taken them out of the box except to verify the serial numbers when I logged them into my bound book. Should I take them out and clean the cosmo off and oil them first or sell as is? I want to avoid the hassle of not being able to state blemishes covered up by cosmo but at the same time, I'd rather not waste the time cleaning them. Would they be easier to sell cleaned up?

[tanstaafl4y]

Personally if selling a milsurp rifle to a milsurp collector....Leave the cosmo.

If selling to the general public (ie gunshow) you might get more interest in a "cleaned" gun.

I know a local vendor who sell milsurps "as is" for $X and cleaned for $X+ $25 or $50.

Your "cleaned" rifle might bring a small premium reguardless.

[SteelCore]

Sound reasoning there.

[Schultz]

I agree with Tanstaafl4y if you just want to unload it leave the cosmo however if you want to get as much as you can clean it.

[okie shooter]

It might depend on what they are, if they are worth you time to clean the, mosants vs maybe a sks or such. The value and ease of sale might merrit cleaning.

[Planning]

I need to get rid of a few rifles that I have sitting around. I have never taken them out of the box except to verify the serial numbers when I logged them into my bound book. Should I take them out and clean the cosmo off and oil them first or sell as is? I want to avoid the hassle of not being able to state blemishes covered up by cosmo but at the same time, I'd rather not waste the time cleaning them. Would they be easier to sell cleaned up?

i quit cleaning up rifles several years ago. sometimes i will wipe it off a little or run a rag down the bore, but that is it. i have plenty of paper towels on hand. when i first started selling the china sks rifles they came 20 rifles to a wood crate, 200+ rifles at a time. at first i would take them to a local car wash and just clean them up, but i got in trouble for that. i then just took the crate and opened the lid and let people chose. i had the cloth rifle socks i would shove them in and hand them some paper towels. most of the rifle i have sold in the last 2-3 years were new in the box and never fired. you can look at them with the grease on it and see most if any blemishes, but that is just part of the charm of buying guns.
remember the grease will protect the gun. just leave it on. if it still has the grease on it it usually means someone has not jacked with it.

[jlpskydive]

What are you selling??

[weasel_master]

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