I deal a lot with Colt & Winchesters, and I still don’t fully understand the prices.
I think the Cowboy Action Shooting craze dried up a lot of the old Colts & Winchesters, and then when the Winchester Factory in New Haven closed, prices really went nuts.
At the Cody show a couple of years ago, me and some of the high dollar collectors/dealers had a discussion about the extreme prices these things were bringing. My thoughts were that you looks at the tables, hundreds of Win 73, 76, 86, 92 and 94s… they aint that rare.
Go the auctions, many of these guns are going overseas, possibly for investment.
My thought that the prices were artificially inflated and the bottom would drop out… but that was two plus years ago, … guess I’m wrong.
Last edited by Mike Hunter; 02/05/09 02:07 PM.
