The latest round of price hikes just put a lot of stuff over the top for me.
In the last two years or less I�ve watched decent S&W revolvers go from the mid-$300 or $400 range to up over $600 and even $700. Model 34�s are a case in point. Nice guns, but you can�t hardly find one now for less than $600 unless it�s showing a lot of wear. Vintage Marlin 39s were going for the same range and now this.
Generalizing here, but these nice older guns have shown about a 30% price hike overall, and my income sure hasn�t jumped 30% in the last two years.
Of course, given what the future will probably bring, we should just grin and pay the price. Then three years from now when these Marlins are going for over $1000 we can brag about how we got a good one for a mere $575.
