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Been watching this for about a week. Was at $663 dollars for days. Silly me, I though I might have a shot at it for a reasonable price at one point. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/968861388These, or very nearly the same model, were about $900 at CDNN a few years back, when $900 was a problem for me.
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Been watching this for about a week. Was at $663 dollars for days. Silly me, I though I might have a shot at it for a reasonable price at one point. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/968861388These, or very nearly the same model, were about $900 at CDNN a few years back, when $900 was a problem for me. Shill bidders abound on GunBroker these days IMHO. Start the bid @ $.01, and your listing costs are minimal. Have a couple buds that have few transactions bid the price up. When I see guns that are out of the mainstream and you've got a couple NR biddders or folks that have less than 15 transactions, I do not bid. ya! GWB
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That won’t work with me. I may be impulsive at times and take a swing at something without really thinking it through, but I’m pretty good about deciding what something is worth to me and sticking to it.
Thought that one might be a fun stump-sitting piece, and it’s factory drilled and tapped, but good grief!
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Those things have always been the ugly ducklings of the repro single shot world. I can think of two of them, both in our neck of the woods Pappy, that lingered for sale in LGS's for years before selling. We had a running gag in the one shop about taking up a pool to see how long it would take to sell, but then we realized that one of us could buy it himself just to win the pool.
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What caught my eye was the cartridge and the factory D&T. The ones at CDNN weren’t drilled IIRC. That aside, my .44 Traditional Hunter beats it on all counts.
There are some .357s similar to mine but drilled online, but with a perfectly good Henry shooter in hand, buying one would be an extravagance. ‘Course, wifey’s gonna be away for five months, and accidents happen…🤔
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I've often thought that model of 1885 in 45/70 would be an exciting experience! Seriously thought about the 38-55 back when then could be had NIB for $800 or $900.
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The various Browning/Winchester single shots usually have excellent barrels, but I don't like a barrel that short, and I really don't like the slick steel buttplates. 22" seems to me to be a happy minimum - handy inside a blind, and still shorter than a magazine rifle. I have a #1 in .44 mag with a 20" barrel, and have been tempted to either rebarrel it, or sell it, despite having nice wood.
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