any help on Browning BAR value?

[thayn61]

Some one wants to trade me this i have not been able to get any info from the browning forum about this rifle. i was told by the owner that it is a BAR Grade IV made in 2003 and came from the custom shop. i have looked online and seen similar but not the same rifle. any info is greatly appreciated. i am looking to see mainly what it is valued at if i get it i will have spent about 1500 to get it.
it is a 7mm and is never fired
Thank you for any info

 

[ACP230]

Check out the prices for Grade II BARs on the online sites.
That should give you a base.
I think the last one I saw was around $600.

 

[rburg]

I've got a field grade gun in .30-06. What sold the gun to me was the wood and the fact the guy was only asking $500+. If I saw the gun you're looking at and it had great wood, I'd probably consider paying the $1500. Those guns are just spectacular. The whole world doesn't agree and so the prices are sometimes suppressed.

But the first question you need to ask yourself is why do you want it? Would you take a gun that pretty out and shoot it? At a range? How about dragging it all over a mountain? Sure, it'd get dinged up a little. But if you shot a real trophy the dings don't matter and the gun would become even more valuable to you.

I have no clue as to how recoil sensitive you are. Can you handle the constant wallop of the magnum round? If it were a bolt gun, you could just down load it to 7mm/non magnum strength and then enjoy it. When you do that with the semi-auto, it might become a single shot. I think those are called jam-o-matics. So you'll need to keep velocities up enough to cycle the action reliably.

Its new enough to avoid the salt wood problems of the 1960s guns.

 

[Fishinfool]

Nice rifle. You are in the high ball park on price, I believe. These rifles should not be confused with the older, pre-Mark ll rifles that were discontinued in 1992. The older rifles featured several levels of hand engraving, and bring considerably more money than the Mark ll's, that feature what I believe is etched or rolled engraving. The BAR's are one of the few rifles by Browning that never went to Japan for manufacture. They are made in Belgium, and assembled in Portugal.

Larry