Seller is trying to sell the name. See it all the time with Winchester, Browning and Parker owners. Unless you are a real collector, a person who is only interested in the highest condition, completely original and as near to unfired as possible, then you are either a shooter looking for another toy or an accumulator who buys without real understanding of whats good and whats junk. The seller is an accumulator who thinks he has a great gun to sell just because it says Winchester on the side of the gun. Not quite.
Ive had to tell sellers what they have is a common example, of a entry level gun, in average condition, made by the same maker who made higher grade guns. Its like they owned a Chevette, which was made by the same company who made Corvettes. Same maker, sounds a little alike but not nearly the same. That they understand.
I wonder where this is coming from??? Nowhere in this thread up to the time of this comment did the OP tell us the condition of the gun, or whether the seller was expecting some pie-in-the-sky price. We all want a good price when we sell, but it sounds as if he settled for less than he paid several years ago. We all know that a pristine or unfired Winchester High Wall is going to get the attention of real collectors. But to think that a specimen in average condition, even in an obsolete or uncommon caliber would be not worth considering for anybody is crazy. And this comes from a guy who has spent a lifetime buying guns that need some work. Or so he says.
