Too continue a discussion from another post, what is an old Model 12 worth these days? If it's a serviceable 12-gauge, it's worth about $350 in Denver these days. Solid ribs and other interesting variants still bring a little more and Cabelas is, of course, asking more for the same gun, but....their situation is a little different (as has been discussed here before). Good sub-gauge pumps seem to demand a little more money, roughly $450 seems to be where they fall now.
12-gauge guns in-general (doubles as well) seem to be languishing a bit as the the baby boomers tend to be looking for lighter-fare to carry afield (20 & 28s predominate). From what I'm seeing, millennials (at least the urban & sub-urban variants) are not attracted to hunting and shooting in numbers anywhere near the level that their forebears were. I now work with that generation and they have a very different outlook on things. No easy explanations there, but they are simply not interested in old guns.....period. There are exceptions, I'm sure, but as a demographic they don't generally seem to like things that have a delayed-gratification component and hunting (and fishing) are largely defined by delayed-gratification.
