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Action alone is about $300 without any mods, safety added is prolly about $100.00, bolt handle $75, barrel fitting-etc. $400, on and on. That is a great deal. Can't see the bottom metal but it might be standard issue with a button welded on or aftermarket.
I would start reaching for the wallet.
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Beautiful rifle.
You could do FAR worse.
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That's pretty much what I'm a thinking. It's amazing how the bbl channel is perfectly inletted. It's quite humbling to look at others work and realize that I'm a bricklayer among sculptors. Thanks for the replies. Ken
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That is a better than average looking custom Mauser, I would snatch it up for that price.
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I went and looked at it again today and I was wrong. He wants $795 for it. He did say he would give me $700 for my Kimber Classic in trade though which is a good deal IMHO. The rifle does have real nice after market bottom metal. Decisions, Decisions. Does Sunny Hill put their name on their parts? Ken
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Don't know about SH might be a Blackburn. If so, they are $350+. Pic would help greatly.
Why not sell your Classic here? I'm thinking it would be snatched right quick at $800.
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$795 ? ?.............Hmmmmmm........ While nice, IMO it's not that nice.
If it was ME that wanted it, I would first as the seller how much ($$$) a scope like that is worth.
If the seller came up with a dollar figure of the scope's value, since it has zero value to me, I would make hime a csah-on-the-counter offer for the bareback rifle (no scope) around $500 - saying I already have a good scope for it @ home - and shut up until he decided to pick up either the rifle or the money from the counter.
You can always sell off the Kimber later.
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Don't know about other places, but around here the stock is worth close to that as it's fitted to the rifle. The action is also worth a good bit as previously cited. Even if the barrel is toast, or the bedding/barrel crown/chamber are bad, it's still a good buy. E
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I have a real problem seeing such a cheap scope on a nice rifle. As mentioned in a previous reply, see what he thinks the scope is worth and make him an offer to buy the rifle sans scope.
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I have a real problem seeing such a cheap scope on a nice rifle. As mentioned in a previous reply, see what he thinks the scope is worth and make him an offer to buy the rifle sans scope. It took me a long time to figure out why folks always put cheap, junk scopes on a nice rifle.... After I bought a few, I figured it out. Chances are, the scope won't be sighted in. For some unknown reason, some folks think a saleable rifle is worth more with a scope on it. Most of us, as buyers, know that a $25 scope adds zero value to a good rifle. When I have those cheap POS's, I usually end up giving them away to someone for a kid's .22 rifle. Edw-
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Have to agree with Eremicus on this one.
The stock blank alone in that grade of walnut isn't cheap. Add some nice exterior stockwork, expert inletting, and a nice finish and that stock gets to be expensive. The bottom metal is expensive as well. $795 is at the upper end of what I'd pay for that rifle but I don't think I could duplicate it for less than that even with me doing the barrel work myself.
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It looks like a gunsmith student's rifle. Probably has the best components he could find and he spent a lot of time on it. That might explain the scope as well. that is something he could upgrade latter. BUY IT and ENJOY IT!
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I'd pay an extra $50 for them to keep the Simmons. I'd buy that rifle.
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I would buy it in a minute at that price.
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If you have the money and want a .280 you could certainly do a lot worse. Don't see how you could lose any money on the deal. I'd offer $750 out the door and tell them they could keep the scope/rings/mounts if he needed to.
There is a .280 ack on a Mauser in a McMillan not nearly this well done for about the same price on gunbroker. While the McMillan is incredibly nice, I suspect it would cost a whole bunch more to have that wood stock duplicated.
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On one hand $795 is not a lot for something that you want. On the other hand that stock lacks checkering, the rifle looks heavy, the metal finish has little appeal to me, you don't know if it will shoot well, the safety is hard to reach and only two position, and the color of the stock looks off.
The bottom metal seems 1909.
The dealer may have got it cheap unless its consignment. There is a good suggestion above if you must have the rifle. Offer $495 cash sans scope.
I would not trade that for a Kimber. No way!
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