Remember all them $350 dollar marlins at the pawn shop?
I have nightmares of all them buggers I put back on the rack and not in my pick up!
First pawn shop Marlin I bought was under $100 and I'm not even that old yet 😬 That woulda been back in maybe 2001/2002. Old plain as a tin bucket model 30. I had one of the Monkey Wards Western Field branded ones that set me back even less, too. 70-80 bucks...something like that. They almost gave those store branded ones away at pawn shops.
I remember thinking how good I was doing dumping them off for a couple hundred bucks... right before the Marlin implosion. Hindsight 🤣
Ranks right up there with selling my Remington 7600 for $300-ish shortly before prices went nuts... whoopsie.