Before this turns into the usual catalog of doom past and present, have several question. How many of you would expect the "bottom end" (4-7C) to realize roughly a 40+% increase in value over the past 4/5 yrs? If you suspect this to be the case, would such an increase be due to the racetrack of inflation or to the mechanism of internet selling or both? How do sale by local advertising or shop consignment cf.? Are there categories of field-grade guns of absolutely no collector interest which, given just the right amount of aging and less than the right amount of "mileage", do very well in the utilitarian market if you can "extract" them from the "local ore"? Right now I'm thinking of imports such as the Beretta S or BL-guns and the 70s and 80s Uggies. Are there others in your experience? What are they? No need to answer; trying to make the point that by volume of interest and resale, these are the halcyon days of this hobby.
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