Not sure where to post this but I’m kicking around the notion of dumping my SR-25 ec carbine. Less than 100 rounds conservatively…
I have always been able to fight back the urge to sell items but I just dont have the fire for this rifle I once had.
Given that whats a fair price to ask for it?..because I’m not seeing any ads for SR25’s recently to compare to? I’m thinking I just consign it and let the cards fall where they may.
Thanks fellas
Jake
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Don’t see them for sale very often at all.
I’d be interested to see it and price though.
It’s a thin market. Even many people who consider themselves in to AR’s don’t know what it is. When you have a thin market product to sell, you need to expose it to as many potential buyers as possible. The obvious choice is GunBroker. If you do a 14 day listing, provide plenty of good pictures, write a detailed description, include all the accessories & box (if you have it), and start at a reasonably low point, you’ll get as much as anyone can sell the rifle for. If you try to sell such an expensive rifle in a local store, I doubt you’ll get what it’s really worth or it will likely just sit and get fondled.
BTW, I only found one in GunBroker’s history.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=378951583
It was new and sold for $4,125.
Another consideration is an ad on Sturmgewehr. Informed folks looking for things not on the neighborhood gun rack look there.
Agree that you need the right crowd to appreciate the rifle and get what it’s worth. If you dump it on consignment or try to sell on a local forum people aren’t going to understand the value.
I’d research the value and availability of the weapon and list in the EE more than likely, or take a hack at gun broker.
ECs don’t come up for sale very often.
Retail for the package was a bit under $4400.
It’s a bit of a niche gun, but they generally shoot very well.
For the guys looking for a precision 16" 7.62 gun, it has high appeal, and will generally move at $3900+.
oooooof course, like everything else I want… becomes available after I find a suitable replacement
Being that KAC is only offering the APC next year, and the fact there are still people from 2012 waiting on ECC orders I’m sure you will have no problem finding someone looking for an EC.
There are a lot of KAC fan boys over at AR15.com.
I’ve contemplated selling my ECC but I have a feeling I would kick myself 4 months from now.
Good luck.
Kevin and I have been offered rude money for our personal guns, and while tempting, neither of us have moved them.
i took some rude money for mine. i enjoyed shooting those rifles for a good long time though, but eventually stretched the range out and enjoy shooting mostly bolt guns now.
biggerhammer.net has a stoner section with its own forum. it used to have a lot of knowledgeable people and afaik, that’s where most of the KAC collectors hung out. it looks pretty lightly trafficked now, but a post won’t cost you anything there
I hate myself for passing up the ECC I had the opportunity to buy a few months ago.
oh the hatred runs deep towards all you ECC owners
in a generally non-hateful way tho
I honestly regret not holding out for an ECC. I knew they were hard to come by so I settled for the EC.
The EC is a nice rifle in its own right… But its no ECC… and thats what I wanted from the get go.
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I’m honestly happy that I don’t know what I’m missing out on. My AR-10 seems to satisfy me. I can hear you laughing, but please, please, please, whatever you do, don’t educate me. It will only cost me money.
Its hard to really explain what your missing out on… I’ll put it like this remember the first time you looked through a nice piece of glass and realized that this is how an scope should be made. Every little detail was fully thought out start to beginning… Its like that.
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I’ll be a lot happier once I find a load my ECC likes.
So far the best groups (normal repeatability) have only been around 1.1" for 5 shots on 168 FGMM.
My gun didn’t come with a test target (some error with targets being thrown out) so I’m really anxious to prove my investment is truly a 1 MOA rifle.
Not sure about recent EC rifles, but some of the newer ECC rifles with be shipping with 1/10 twist. Still waiting on customer service to get back with me to see which my rifle has (no marking visible due to the dimpling).
Most likely a 1:11, the change to the rifling came in late in production, and was not a precision-based alteration.
As far as capability, the shooter/gun integration performance tends to improve at around 1k-2k, as the shooter becomes more accustomed and tuned into the gun, and as the parts wear-in.
For ammo, I would be looking to BH 175gr Semi-Auto offerings for precision. We test with Rem Prem Match 168s, but I have seen a higher SD with those than I would want if I was shooting past 300. Not bad for 100 yard grouping/practice, but not true match ammo.
At the end of the day, shooting an AR-based 7.62 gun is harder than shooting a bolt gun; there are a lot more 1 MOA guns out there than there are 1 MOA shooters, and there aren’t that many true 1 MOA guns.
Thanks for the response. I know Kevin had great success with Lapua Scenars and I will have to try some SMK 175s to replicate BH’s loading.
I haven’t worked up any loads yet, so I’m optimistic the accuracy will come. My M25 in a sage EBR would shoot .75 MOA with match ammo, but also weighed 3 pounds more!
I felt the same way about my EMC, and I had a bear of a time selling that puppy. I even got it at a decent price and still struggled to get my money back out of it. Eventually, I ended up having to sell the upper and lower separately (which I would not recommend) to get my money back…quite a few months after I decided to sell it.
I want to say I got $4200 for the upper and lower, and sold the Micro rear sight and mag after the fact to put me about $100 in the black.
Good luck.