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A couple years ago, a solid 336 on Gunbroker was easy to find at $500-600. Now, the prices are absolutely insane. I realize it's partly the panic and partly because JM stamps look more collectible post-Remlin and now into the Ruger iterations... but yeesh.
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It’s nuts! I remember going to gun shows 5-6 years ago and you could pick up a 336 for $300. Careful of gunbroker! They are starting to have a lot of issues with scammers. But to your question I doubt stuff will ever drop back as low as it once was.
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I think the market is real slow now. I have been trying to sell a 336SC for some time now. I think part of the issue is that ammo is so hard to find. Guys don't want to buy a new gun/caliber and not have ammo for it.
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Even the "Remlins" are sky high if you can find one. The "Ruglins" (Ruger made Marlins) should be hitting the market soon.
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The Store brands have even gone crazy. Western Auto, Revelation, Glenfield etc. 6-700 dollars!
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For a split second I was interested in a new Henry with the sidegate but for a grand not so much.
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For a split second I was interested in a new Henry with the sidegate but for a grand not so much. Buy once cry once. I like my X model better than any of the Marlins or the Rossi I've owned. Thanks, Dinny
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Henry's don't have the right weight, balance, looks, or ergonomics for me.
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I don’t see the prices falling very much. I agree on the Henry’s, love the rimfires, but the centerfires are heavy and too expensive. But they are a great company.
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Winchester perfected the handling of leverguns a long time ago. Marlin is just a step behind in that department but still great. Then along comes Henry and they handle like a 2x4.
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The Marlins are as much as the Winchesters now. I sold a 1895 SS with a bunch of stuff years back for $800, sure wish I kept it!
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Crazy times This '77 336 was $199 out the door at a pawnshop just a dozen years ago. I wish I still have my 1894 in 32/20. I wonder what my 336er would bring today.
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With the government printing up trillions it does not have, you can expect prices to go up. I'm thinking owning firearms is a hedge against inflation.
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I see lots of big asking prices but not a ton of them are moving at those prices. The better rarer stuff yes but tons of guys don't even stop to look at gun shows once they see a crazy price they leave the whole display that person has and figure there is no way they can meet in the middle. I try to make money off each sale but I just buy and sell to try new guns out, I keep my favorites but move the rest to buy more. Some day all this free money is going to dry up and there will be way less buyers out there.
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I live in a Walmart area. That is at the local shows prices that many people are willing to pay is what they think they saw at Walmart a few years ago - then they want a discount if it is used, they think that they can save a buck by pestering you for 15 or more minutes.
On the other hand, look at prices at internet sites. Guns are going for quite a bit more money than a couple years ago. And like I said, the government is handing out a free trillion dollars that they printed and that is just what they recently added - what do you think - where will prices go?
Inflation at its finest.
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I think they will go back down. This won't keep up foreve
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I see the prices coming back down slightly, but not anytime soon! I want a 444p badly, but not for $2000+
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I agree with so many of these posts. I bought a straight stocked 30-30 marlin off a table at a show for $325 two years ago. Little gun was in 95% condition. A buddy of mine offered me a grand for it a couple of weeks ago It’s still in my safe
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Moosemike ,I agree the Henry’s just don’t feel right to me either
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I am late to the party for sure. I bought my first Marlin back in 1975 and it was a 444. I moved on to bolt guns and that is where I am for the most part today. A couple of years ago I bought a 39 at a gun show and there was a Marlin 44 mag floating around for about $550 that looked almost new. Well that got me fired up on lever actions again and I was going to try and buy a few. I wanted something in a pistol cal. like a 357 or 44, and I wanted a 45/70 and long octagon barrels have always tripped my trigger. Well I started a little too late as what I able to find were starting to bring really big prices and it has done nothing but go up.
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I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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