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I think in order to officialy be a CULT gun...the gun has to be a gun of a collectable nature [model 12 Winchester], but of a configuration that was not highly sought after when it was offered...say 32in solid rib Duck gun...Now days model 12 collectors give these examples cult gun status with there drooling and slobbering when trying to obtain one of these from an unsuspecting seller....it is about impossible for them to give a lowball offer without shakeing and breaking into a sweat along with the formentioned oral maladies!........
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Would a gun lose it's cult status after a Repro is issued? Once the cult is recognized as a profit source, does it become a mainstream collectable?
Abbreviated Repro List
Win
M 12
M 21
M 42
M 1885
LC Smith (if you consider the Marlin thing a repro)
Fox
Parker
1911
NID
Colt SAA
Way too general. TW, a Model 70in 270 is way too common.
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Well, Don, a cult gun HAS to be at least common enough for a cult to form around it.
TW said the Remington 17-but, JMHO, there aren't enough of them around for it to truly be a cult gun. If there aren't enough examples for the cult to worship, it becomes a "siren" gun-one you can't, or won't own.
Maybe a 17 isn't a good example of that, but, a Fabbri might be.
I also question the out of production part-The Thompson center single shot pistols have a well developed cult, and are still very much in production. The other aspect of cult following is something not everyone wants to be a part of. I don't have/need/want a Thompson center, or half a dozen different barrels for one. But, those centerfire single shot pistol guys are indeed a cult if ever there was one.
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Ted, you may be right about the TC SS, but not a cult for me.
As to the M17, yes rare, but there's not a real under ground cult following.
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Not a cult gun but you do have the 16 and 28 gauge cults. A heck of a lot of guns are bought just because of the ga. not for what they are.
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Even tho the 17 isn't considered a cult gun, I own one for no other reason than it is a slick 20 ga. & I didn't have one. That being said, my 17 is a non ribbed bbl & I'm looking to buy a bbl with rib. Anyone have one for sale ?? I'd like to re-stock it with a great stick & engrave it up for myself IF, I could get a bbl with rib. Ken
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Pre-64 Model 70
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Remington 31s
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Don,
That list I exclude from cult status. A special M12, 70 or 21 is going to click with 99.9% of us as a collectable gun.
It's your thread, but IMO a cult gun has to be somewhat ignored by the collector community and raise the eyebrows of us hoi polloi when mentioned as special. The Super X is a good example.
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Thompson SubMachine gun. Known by dozens of different nicknames, instantly recognizable by most everyone in the last 7 decades or so, even those not 'in to guns', too late to make it's intended debute in WW1, languished unwanted till the USPO, of all people, made the first gov't purchase of them. Used by every branch of our armed forces and just about every other govt around the world (free world and otherwise), Law Enforcement, outlaws, ranchers, farmers, gangsters, security, and just plain gun owners. Still in use, extremely collectible and expensive as all hell.
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