Home Forums Lever Action Central Marlin Talk OMG - the price!

Local auction yesterday, upstate NY, sold a used stainless Guide Gun for $1600. I dint look to see if it was a JM or Remlin. But that price seems nuts. Is that the going rate now?

A Plain Jane 336 in 35 rem went for $750. Maybe I’m just getting old, or cheap.

If it was an SBL, that is on the very low end of what they sell for

When at all possible...buy the gun that you're wanting!

You buying or selling?

^^^^

I have been offered stupid money for my 18" SBL. If GB now serves correctly, they have actually come down a smidge.

Sadly you are afflicted with "I remember when".
Many of us are....

I like to have filled my shorts when I saw the prices people were asking for Guide Guns. I paid around $600 for my Stainless Guide Gun in 2001.

I still like my thumper, but cashing it in would give me a bunch of toy money.

I passed on a Marlin 1894 in 44 mag in good shape on Thursday for 829. 5 guys gave me hell for not buying it!!!! I thought the 44 mag was the most common?

There was a 336 D in .35 Rem I was watching about a week ago that went for just under 3k.

Guess my customized stainless Trapper and custom 2 piece take down 1895's will treat me better than the stock market!

Prices are stupid. Just seen on GB a Rossi mares leg in 357 going for $930 with 38 bids. WTF?? I have one and it's not worth it.

It only has to be worth it to one person.

Disagree. It takes two to drive up the price in an auction.

In an auction it generally takes two.


What’s a 336 D?

Sounds like savage 99 lingo?

saw a ruger stainless 1895 today at lgs for $1100 bent front sight and all!

Seen two Rossi model 92 in .357 wood and blue 850.00 each both sold. Local flea market.

In 2013 or 14 I paid $400.00 for a like new ported 1895, a JM gun in 45-70 and the owner threw in two boxes of Winchester shells and the rifle had a new 3-9 scope on it as well, only a few shots fired out of it. He was asking $450.00. I saw it advertised on a sportsman's message board and called the guy and met with him. Seems he had creeped up on the rifle and when he fired it the scope hit him on the eyebrow and laid him open, he didn't want t fire it again. A couple of years later I was seeing them advertised used for 8 or 9 hundred dollars. I love the gun, I have taken a Bison and a bunch of wild boars and several deer with it with it. I will never sell it as long as I am able to hunt, I don't care how much the price increases. The hole in the Bison is the exit hole.

That is about as cheap as you will find one, should have snatched it up if you were in the market.

LOL I saw a NIB 1895MR at a gun auction in 2008 go for $325

I paid $350 plus tax for my 1894 in 357 about 2010 and $400 for the 1894 44 mag about 2012. It seems to me either one is worth about $1000 or $1200 now from prices I see at gun shows and online.

As for online auctions, it only takes one serious bidder who really wants it and one a**hole to bid up the price. And it's not unheard-of for the seller or seller's cohort to be the second bidder just to make the poor sap pay their price. Then there is the auction mentality too.... I have seen buyers overbid just to "win" the auction. It becomes more about winning than about buying the item up for bid.