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Blue Book is the guide you use to buy from people who don't have a clue.
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I like guns | optics | fishing
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Blue Book is the guide you use to buy from people who don't have a clue. Or the book gun shop owners use to fleece people who show up to sell firearms. The book hasn't been close to accurate for at least 30 years.
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Rodney482: Buried in one of my latter posts is the fact that the Rifle I wanted others to know about has sold't!
Yeah I probably should have made a strong play for it when I first saw it - but alas its on down the road now.
Amazing the prices that the clean Winchester 94/22's and 94/17's are selling for nowadays!
So many guns - so little time.
Hold into the wind
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The happy kaboomer: I think you are misunderstanding?
Indeed any particular firearm is originally made to be able to shoot but MANY firearms would lose so much value if fired that the owners prudently don't shoot them.
I own many such firearms!
And indeed the day may/will come when "I" choose to sell the guns - if the buyer wishes to pay the price "I" am asking for my unfired specimens then he/she can do so.
But I would MUCH rather retain the increased value of my unfired collector guns and realize that increased value when I sell them - I literally have hundreds of guns I shoot and have shot so I am not tempted at all to shoot ANY of my valuable unfired guns.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy If it's profit you're saving for/counting on. You'd make more in a savings account.
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The Happy kaboomer: That is an idiotic statement!
Have YOU even been to a bank lately and seen the laughably low "savings account" rates?
You have earned a "sheesh"!
Sheesh.
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I had a 94/22 s,l,lr and a 94/22 mag in the safe until last week. Sent the lr version to a friend in WY for his little girl to grow into. Much better use for it than just being another gun in the safe. The mag version will stay and go to one of my grandsons someday.
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The prices are quit variable. I have bought '50's era model 17 's in 98+condition for $900.00 to 1000.00 in the last 5-6 weeks.....and I don't really need anymore.
However, I can't pass 'em up.
As for 94/22's the Trapper model is about priced right. Now, if you think that is expensive, try to buy a 9422 Factory Color Case Hardened or a 9422 Yellow Boy.
I shoot almost everything Have . I was at the Riveria Gun Show in Vegas man-years ago. The Riveria is gone now. Last hour or 2 of the show I bought 2 NIB Winchester 63's , I had been watching.
2 different sellers. I made a offer 1 guy took it. Next guy I made lower offer , I had shot my wad over 3 days. I started to leave and owner called me back.
Now I get home, broke as hell and a bunch of nice guns. The 1st thing I did was put one of the 63's together and shot it. I couldn't help my self. I would do the same thing again.
NIB guns own you... what the hell good are they? Yes, investments. I have sold most of the NIB stuff . Have 7-8 9422's and 94/17's. Great guns and fun to shoot.
The Blue Book is the most over-rated reference book out there.
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So the 94/22 LR I have might be worth a few buck, eh?
I'm not getting rid of it tho...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Just go buy it. You will soon forget the price and find the joy of shooting and using a very nice gun.
Chase a gun you like, pay what’s necessary, enjoy. Constantly chasing a “deal” is a fool’s errand.
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