Zastava M91

Have been interested in a M91 for a long time (I'm a sucker for 54R.) Saw this in their catalog they released earlier and I got excited. Apparently they have a price listed at shotshow... $3500 seems ridiculous. Is it REALLY that different than a VEPR or PSL. Heck, banned VEPRs are still selling for half that.

IMHO yes it's an absolutely outrageous price.

Nice...new toy... but also a nice price to go with it

Classic Arms has the Romanian PSL-54 Rifle
and it's price is $2900...

-Rock

Rockzilla said:

Nice...new toy... but also a nice price to go with it

Classic Arms has the Romanian PSL-54 Rifle
and it's price is $2900...

-Rock

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Should be half that.....

JTH20 said:

Should be half that.....

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I remember when there were $500 or less with 4 mags. Amazing how AK price has gone up and AR is down now.

Looking at the M91 and PSL, comparing the 2, the receivers look similar. Even having the bulged trunion. The PSL is not supposed to shoot heavy ball, and it looks nearly identical to the M91. The M91 benefits from an adjustable gas system, but I wonder if it can still handle heavy ball ammo, because I have a ton of it. There have also been reports of Zastava guns having some soft metal, but haven't specifically heard anything about the M91since it hasnt been here. The M77, the 308 gun, has mostly gotten great reviews. I have one, but havent shot it yet. Of course the M77 was around 650ish, not 3500. I would buy a Russian Vepr before a PSL or M91 now that Csspecs is making mags for them. Unless someone has a thing for Serbian or Romainian guns.

Atlantic Firearms.com said:

Hopefully we will see some of the Zastava Arms USA M91 rifles arriving this summer and be able to see exactly how well they are made . We have shipped thousands of OPAP , NPAP & M92 models and not had soft metal issues .The internet can take 1 or 2 issues and make it seem like a pandemic.

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Yeah but that price is a ****ing pandemic lol

Its hard to pony up that kind of money for either...…..when you can have a custom VEPR and nice commie optic for similar.

Here are a few pics of the Zastava Arms USA M91 Sniper rifles

I'll post to this topic....since I know more about this than anyone else including the importers. I am also not a fan of those who use these boards to shill their products. The model 91 in 54r has russian optics on them...the mags are specific to this rifle. They are not going to fit anything else...next this rifle is also available from the factory in .308 caliber. This is a 2 moa rifle with decent ammo....in 54r once the barrel heats up. It is a Kalashnikov action not anything like a SVD....so your 7k to 8k is high in a soft market for a Chinese unit.

To the guy that posted above "half the price" your are indeed correct. This rifle should be at 1599 with five mags as issued, spring loaded firing pin set to US geometry, and the flash hider attached as a faux flash hider not milled through.

So what we have are what I call the hot and horny of the industry. Oh my I gotta be the first to have one totally overpriced. So basically your paying future equity in advance and not going to make a dime....why? Because of what they are and what they are not....and that is accurate. For this kind of money your getting ripped off, and your wallet is being levitated.

For this kind of money you can get a .308 or another caliber tack driver in many platforms that'll blow away the post dissonance these people are going to have when the cool factor dies off.

Again if the price point was correct, they would sell more, a price point being fair, and import objectives met. I have no interest in a rifle with a 325% markup on top of and including import duties.

There is no exclusivity that will accommodate a price that is not correct for the product itself. Not in the year 2019.

By the way for the naysayers....look at the scope on it....they are factory 78.00 each. Nuff said.....save your money at this price.

For the importer and distributor....I utilized professional jurisprudence not to post the actual production costs for these rifles. The receiver rears are different from production in and for Serbia.

Bring the price down.....one more comment....the factories original employees are now pensioners and the new production is very good but not the overall quality of the prior imports from the 1985, 1989 years.Those were outstanding examples.

Wait till the price comes down...it will.