I have never been very successful buying guns at an auction. I have however not been to a really big time auction. I was at an auction once where a long time collector was selling quite a few guns. I bought a few things there, but no guns. He had a good many low end guns & then some pretty uncommon ones with high collector interest. Amazingly the low end guns all brought far more than they were worth, while some of those high end ones went for what I felt at the time were extremely attractive prices, just out of my financial range at the time.
I have made some very good buys on non-gun related items at auctions. One just has to know what they want & when to "STOP" bidding.
