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Old 06-10-2017, 06:33 AM
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1939/1940 "pre-Nazi occupation" Hi Power. Still looking for a nice one, since I blew the chance a year ago
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Lew Horton's gun store in Framingham Mass, mid sixties.sold a
savage black powder revolver(two triggers,one cocked it)for $25. got to drool over a 4 barrel Kreighoff cased set, oak with a canvas cover for the astronomical price of $1000. could not even conceive having that much cash in the toy fund, I was probably making about $6000. a year.
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There are a few that stand out;
1. A very well done Sporterized Garand - you just had to see this rifle to believe it!
2. A Winchester Model 70 Supergrade in .30-06. A post '64 but still one of the best looking rifles I had ever seen.
3. A Lee Speed rifle in .303 British.
4. A scoped Ruger Super Redhawk in .44 Magnum.

All of these were offered to me for well below what they could have sold for.

I've passed on others tha I wished that I would have bought but these four are the only ones that I truly regret not buying.

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1. 29-2 8 3/8 inch S prefix with 'Cokes' unfired in original packaging

2. 29-2 4 inch S prefix unfired in original packaging

3. 629 no dash 4 inch unfired in original packaging.

Missed out on these and would love to have the opportunity again.
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I bought my first firearm in the mid 90's, so my 'lost' opportunities can't match some of yours!

I do wish I had grabbed a Marlin 1894 Trapper in .357/.38 back then (but I'm glad I got one in .44!).

I love my 6 & 1/2" 629 and my 6" 686, but I wish I had a J-frame from that era (pre frame-lock). Maybe it's time for me to look for a 'used' gun!
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1939/1940 "pre-Nazi occupation" Hi Power. Still looking for a nice one, since I blew the chance a year ago
I need one of these as well. I have the holster for it.
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Probably 30 years ago was at a buddy`s parents house, and their neighbors were having a garage sale. There on a table was a Colt Single Action 7 1/2" .45 Commemorative in the special display case.
There was a spot for the 6 special .45 rounds in the case-with only 5 there. The guy said he got a little drunk one night and wanted to shoot it, so he fired the one round thru it.
Could have had it for $200.
Thought about buying it for a shooter-I think new "plain" Colts were going for $600 at the time. Of course I was interested in other firearms at the time. Doh!
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I did pass on a primo 34.
Some ding-dong had bobbed the hammer.
What?
Everybody knows 34s with bobbed hammers are cool!
Everybody but me!
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Can't let the Winchester Model 73's get away. I know the Miroku is Japanese and the Uberti are Italy but man what a nice gun.
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...back after "Quigley Down Under" came out in 1990 and the Sharps Rifle trade was booming...I wanted a Montana built Sharps in 50/140...the price and the wait were both unreal...in the mean time passed on a brand new Italian built Sharps in 45/70 for $600...I still don't have a Sharps...wish I had the one I passed on...
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In the 1950s, the Iver Johnson retail store in Boston had a beautiful Mauser broomhandle. i've never seen one that new and unmarred. It had the astronomic price of $100 on it. I was a college kid with maybe $10 in my pocket.
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Old 06-13-2017, 12:05 PM
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In the 1950s, the Iver Johnson retail store in Boston had a beautiful Mauser broomhandle. i've never seen one that new and unmarred. It had the astronomic price of $100 on it. I was a college kid with maybe $10 in my pocket.
Ha! Know the feelin Cyrano. Speaking of Boston I recall a gunshop in Watertown called Ivanhoe's back in early 80's that had reproduction Colt Sheriff's model SAA in nickel with the 3 inch barrel. Kick myself now for being stupid and not whipping out the plastic!
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I had a chance to buy a beat up but shootable pre 27 8-3/8" for $500 a few years ago. Wish I had done so!
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Not too many moons ago, a regular dealer at the Tanner, Denver Show had a very good condition K98k in 8mm kurz. He offered it to me for $500. I had never heard of such an animal, and was concerned about authenticity. By the time I figured out what it was, it was long gone. I'm still kicking myself.
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I'd like to go back and buy the brand new 686 Mountain Gun I passed on in 1998 for around $425. Likewise the brand new 696 that I also passed on. Every time I see one of them on here I kick myself. While I'm at it I'd also like to go back and get a 24" Marlin in .357 Mag. I often meant to get one, but kept putting it off because "Marlin will always be around" (oops).
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Back in the early 90's I bought a Fox B Series sided by side 12 gauge, 28 inch with improved and modified chokes. Beautiful gun, the Savage workers were having a good day when they made that one. I had one problem, I couldn't hit the side of a barn with it. Sold it for $250. Really wish I still had it, and I've not seen another modern Fox that nice since!

I live about 30 miles from a surplus importer that used to advertise in the NRA magazines. They had an ad in sometime around 1989 or 90 that they had received over 1000 Pattern 14 Enfields including a hundred or so manufactured by Winchester.
I grabbed a cleaning rod, Break Free CLP, patches and some rags and drove up to their warehouse. There were hundreds of wooden barrels stuffed with Cosmoline caked rifles. I probably cleaned the actions and bores of thirty Winchester P14's before I found a real gem with a mint bore and no pitting on any metal. Paid $119 for that rifle. (The Eddystone Remingtons were only $89 I believe).

I spent weeks drawing the cosmoline out of the wood and ended up with a very nice, good shooting rifle.

Several months later, my best friend moved into a farmhouse with a nice fish pond about an acre in size. Then all the fish started disappearing; The culprit? A huge snapping turtle. My friend had only a .22 so he asked to borrow the P-14 and some of the surplus ammo I bought so he could shoot the turtle. OK fine I figure.

He was on disability at the time and home all day. Apparently the full military configuration of the rifle really bothered him. So he took it upon himself to sporterize the rifle for me as a surprise. Filed the sight ears off, cut down the stock, removed the Greek installed range disc in the buttstock and a few other touches. Needless to say I was shocked when he tried to give the P-14 back to me! I made him buy it and the ammo.

Today, that rifle would be well over $500 to buy- if you could find one as nice.
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The gun that I would like to have another chance to buy? It is a Browning Hi-Power. A few years ago, I was offered a nice Hi-Power Practical (one magazine, no box/papers) for $600 OTD. I have regretted not buying it on many occasions.
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He was on disability at the time and home all day. Apparently the full military configuration of the rifle really bothered him. So he took it upon himself to sporterize the rifle for me as a surprise. Filed the sight ears off, cut down the stock, removed the Greek installed range disc in the buttstock and a few other touches. Needless to say I was shocked when he tried to give the P-14 back to me! I made him buy it and the ammo.
If that had been me, and he wasn't on disability at the beginning of the day, he surely would be by the end!
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Smith & Wesson Schofield, nickel plated, shortened barrel, Wells Fargo markings, and serial number 1. Yes, I had a chance to buy that gun many years ago. I didn't have the money.
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I remember 1961 at a store in the little upstate NY farm town (village they called it). The store was aptly named The Outdoor Store but everything in there was Mil-surp. Their "good" stuff was on a wall with price tags hanging off the trigger guard. Example of "good" stuff was a 03-A3 or a .303 SMLE that had the sights milled off, Lyman peep and a ramp front, refinished with a Fajen Monte Carlo stock. Price? $29.99, 4X Tasco scope (or equal) mounted for an extra $4.99.

Their "**** stuff" was in barrels!!!. Yep...you got it 03-A3 at $9.95, maybe 20 sticking out of a large barrel(s), 30-40 Krags, K98's, SMLE's including what I thought was the coolest of all in those days...The SMLE 5 Jungle Carbine with the bad looking flash hider. Your choice.
The M1's if I recall, had their own specific dedicated barrel and a sticker at $29.95.

The real "**** stuff"....where me and my buddies had to hang out was "piles"....no barrels, no crates or boxes, just piled on the floor were Mosin Nagants priced at $4.00 each or 3 for $10.00.....no body, but no body would be seen dead with a Russian rifle or pistol in 1961!

I was not old enough to buy from the pistol/revolver barrels but the manager always let us kids drool and handle those 1911A1's priced at $12.00 each.....hand select for $14.00, Lugers for $9.95.

And the helmets, stacked like plastic lawn chairs at Lowes now days....sitting in the corners of the building at least 10 foot tall stacks, German, USA, Jap, some with bad looking holes, some with liners, some with "blood on the risers" as the Paras use to say. All at $1.00 each, and if my buddy and I would clean the cosmoline out of his latest haul of 03-A3 or Ariska's we could take a helmet and a bayonet (who knew what they fit, where they came from....they were cool). I know I had dozens....all gone (probably trashed) when I got through with basic/AIT years later.

Anyway.....like posted above my gas pump jockey job (thankful to have it in those years) paid a whopping $0.25 per hour and I tried to average about 20 hrs/wk so not much left for surplus.....not when I had an image to uphold as a teenager, hunting and fishing habits that had to be fed, and girls (that's what did it for sure)
Sounds like a place near Syracuse my grandparents bought cheap camping stuff at. As a teenager I wanted a .30-40 and/or an '03-A3 and/or this beautiful pre M25 in .45 acp. But the grandparents wouldn't let me (I had the money, it was that cheap). Mom and Dad disapproved. (I did get some genuine WW2 camping gear 'tho.)
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in early 1980s I bought a Belgian browning grd 5 3 barrel skeet set at Bowers wholesale in L.A. and at a gunshow I bought a absolutely mint condition model 42 with a skeet barrel and a full barrel for around $450 . I had Angelo Bee engrave grade 5 patterns on each of them. they always drew a crowd at the skeet fields. sadly I sold 3 safe loads of guns in 1996 in a failed effort to save my house. should have kept the guns and ran away from the house.
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The golden age of buying firearms to me was when the internet first became popular around 1990. Revolvers were out of style and about any Smith N frame was under $400. M-28s and L-frames $350, K frame magnums a little less. I remember being the opening bid on a mint M-10 with pinned pencil barrel for $160 shipped and not single person bid against me! Rifles with walnut stocks would barely sell because everyone wanted black plastic stocks, walnut stock guns were selling cheap even WITH nice scopes on them. Remington 870 pump Wingmasters were everywhere for $125.

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I know......I know...... no pics it didn't happen so check out the "good stuff" from the Outdoor Store, circa 1961 for $29.95!

British SMLE with Fajen stock, Lyman peep, ramp front, .303 British, shoots great, still is heck on wheels for whitetail.
Very few folks in this area that made that $30 for that rifle in 1961. I am always glad to see people post the year with the low prices on old guns. There were very few people in this area that made $30 a week. Kinda puts things in perspective.
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OK --- over the period of 3 years a local traveling GUN SHOW would pass through ATLANTA They would come through maybe 3 times a year
One vendor had a JOHNSON 30/06 rifle for sale asking $ 3100.00 Had USMC markings ( since they were the only ones purchasing the piece) anyway for 12 time I would approach the guy and ask what his best price was and he would always say $3100.
I often said but you have been dragging this thing all over the country for years whats the DEAL ?
ANYWAY on my last sighting I brought $2500 cash with me I offered it to him discussing how long he had had it and not many folks understanding this " guppy bellied " rifle
We went on and on ------- he finially said $2700 I said all I had was $2500 he said NO Way I walked
Long story but a buddy saw it again at a show 2 years later still $3100 GUYS BEEN DRAGGING IT AROUND for over 6 years
I think I should have not passed but then again I hope his ESTATE realized his $3100

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3" Colt Pythons....1911 and A-1s for short money......
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Woulda, shoulda, coulda... if you haven't experience it, you haven't really lived life to its fullest.
But... saw a 500 S&W survival kit gun for under $500 and passed because I thought who needs a snub nose on steroids. Then there was an Anaconda 44 mag for under 1K that I probably would have got for $900. I've come to the conclusion that there are more nice guns out there than I can afford to buy. I just have to figure which ones I really want to own.

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