LGS has 3 screw .41 mag 4 5/8 in pristene possibly unfired -

Jeff Spencer
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Sunday, March 09, 2025, 16:52 (14 days ago)

condition. They are asking $1,300! Seems kind of steep to me?

That does sound high, he’ll come down until someone bites

WB
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Sunday, March 09, 2025, 17:49 (14 days ago) @ Jeff Spencer

It’s a sellers market. It’s worth as much as someone will pay. It’s hard to find any clean vintage Ruger for less than $700 anymore. I’ve paid the same for a genuine Colt SAA Bisley (with letter) as a like new FA83 with the box and papers. That’s quite a spread in guns. But I’ve seen both MUCH higher than I paid as well. Gun collecting is a fluid business. All those $50-75 1980’s Mausers, .303’s, and SKS are several hundred each today. Sort of like those $25 Lugers of the 1960’s.

Guess the good news is that guns are a fairly decent--

Jeff Spencer
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Sunday, March 09, 2025, 20:05 (14 days ago) @ WB

investment.

Only if you sell them, just trade up!

WB
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Sunday, March 09, 2025, 21:42 (14 days ago) @ Jeff Spencer

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"It’s worth as much as someone will pay."

ORG
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Monday, March 10, 2025, 05:10 (13 days ago) @ WB

Got that right! :-D

On one hand there will be no more.

WB
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Monday, March 10, 2025, 08:54 (13 days ago) @ ORG

With any quality piece, if you keep it long enough it will appreciate in value. A cheap gun will always be comparatively cheap and less desirable. Except for sentimental situations. Guys as they get older sometimes like to “go back” and relive a special time in their lives. That’s why I keep an old Stevens SxS and a case of purple shells. I’ll shoot maybe a dozen shells in the spring, smell the empties, and remark how brutal recoil seems these days. But it’s worth what I paid, and keeping around, to occasionally work the action, feeling and listening to the metallic snap closure. That view down the center rib…

I still have my Stevens 311A . . . classic!

ORG
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 06:37 (12 days ago) @ WB

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Unless a couple of yoyos get in a bidding war

Gary Reeder
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Monday, March 10, 2025, 13:05 (13 days ago) @ Jeff Spencer

I doubt it will go for anywhere near that price. But I saw a couple of the same type guys get in a bidding war over a Marlin 30-30 a while back and it went for over $15,000. I also saw a Colt lightweight Commander go for over $5000 in mediocre shape. Stranger things have happened.

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