For all this talk about the decline of SXS's, I wonder who is buying all the ones being offered by the 6 -8 auction houses that I follow. Each one of them having multiple sales per year, with many SXS's offered.
I agree that the SXS enthusiast is a relatively small group in the overall gun buying world, but the auctions seem to sell most all of the ones offered. (in all grades)
Yes, English gun prices are down, but US SXS's are up in price.
Yes! This! Everything SXS40 has said is true. The SxS guns not only sell, but the prices seem to just keep ratcheting upward while people here keep posting about the pending collapse. I only wish there was some way to go back even 10 or 20 years to check actual completed listing selling prices on Gunbroker and other gun auction websites versus actual selling prices for vintage doubles today. If you get the chance to look at the prices in a 25 year old Gunlist or Shotgun News, you will find yourself wishing you had a time machine.
But on the other hand, James (canvasback) may also get the impression that fewer guys own and use doubles because of guys like Jagermeister... who can't get any further than putting one on layaway, and then backing out of the deal after posting here about it as if he had it in his hot little hands. But since Jagermeister also only RENTS a cheap Chinese .22 rimfire rifle, one might conclude that the popularity of .22 rifles is waning too.
