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A lady gave me a 20 ga Winchester Model 12 and one of those Savage 22 over 410 combos at a garage sale. Said she just wanted them out of the house. I took them home,cleaned and sold them.
Net return was $700 on a $0 investment.
jim

Hey Bob we must be related. Maybe our ancestors spent time in Debtor's Prison together.

Rick

About 25 years ago when I first began collecting Hammer Shotguns
I bought a Nichols & Lefever with a cross-over stock. Paid
$600 and $100 to fix forearm. Had no intentions to sell it.
A fellow insisted I put a price on it-so I did-$7,000 which he
promply paid.
Reguards
Bill McPhail

I traded a high condition Model 12 16 gauge for an antique pool table two years ago. Just sold the table two months ago for $1500.

I got the same gun in about 1982 by trading a VHS machine for it. That was in the relatively early days of home movie watching and my three leftist journalism school roommates never forgave me. LOL

A Winchester 20 Gauge Model 23 XTR in excellent condition for 800 bucks - the Gunshop saw made in Japan on it, and priced like a used Citori I suppose ?

I can relate to that!

Back in the early 80's, when Bishop semi-inletted wood was pretty cheap, I picked up an older 20ga Stevens sxs on which the receiver and barrels were good. Wood was still solid but pretty beat. Bought high grade Bishop stock and forend for it, which was a bit like putting more makeup on an old whore. Then I started having mechanical problems. Got them fixed, at least temporarily. Meanwhile, my buddy who had a Stevens 16 was lusting after my wood. So I swapped him the wood for a decent Remington 870, sold that, and likewise sold the Stevens 20 for more than I'd paid, with the original wood in place. Would not have been that big of a money pit in retrospect, but it looked that way to me back then, and I felt really lucky to come out ahead. My hunting buddy, with the restocked 16, tripped over some old barbed wire, fell on a rock, and shattered that nice Bishop wood.

I picked up a pretty well clapped out model 12 20 bore at a swap meet for about a 100 bucks...Traded it straight across for a high Grade Darne at a pawnshop in Ukiah Ca...16 bore..shot it for years until my Daughter stole it...

Bought four guns from a "antique" dealer who had them shipped from GB without any import paperwork or duties in a sealed containers with house hold goods. Suspect he got cold feet. What I paid for them even the wife will never know. Sold two of them and paid off the last of her student loans she had before we married.

Saw one of the guns for sale before the 2008 crash for five times what I got for it. It sold quickly. Everyone had made money on that gun. I am sure the antique dealer made money on it, I did when I sold it to a dealer, he made money to the next buyer and then that seller made more money when he sold it. The only looser would be the last buyer if he paid top dollar just before the market crash. And even he will get his money back in the long run if he holds on to it long enough.

Do you consider a "good buy" from an uninformed dealer in this category, Mr. Cash? I don't trade-- every shotgun, rifle or handguns I have purchased over past 30 years of collecting and shooting older and used firearms has been for outright cash money.

I haven't yet won the "Irish Sweepstakes" and if that BS Prize Patrol came to my door, it would be because they are looking for a neighbor- But twice in my past 30 years I have "hit it OK' both times because the seller was ignorant and I wasn't.

20 gauge grouse guns- a dealer had 4 LeFever Nitro Specials advertised- he was closing out- went to take a look, they were all in the $150-$200 range, two of the Nitro Specials even had the single non-selective triggers. And then there was the LeFever Durston Special 20- 28" Nitro proof barrels, DT, Extractors-fit me like an Armani suit- have no idea how it was choked, but it dropped grouse and woodcock and game preserve quails and chukars like GANGBUSTERS'- WITH NO. 6, NO. 7&1/2 AND NO. 8 SHOT-

I bought it for $175.00 OTD in 1981, used it for about 9 years- flawless-and like a dummy, I sold it to a hunting pal who had lost his older Belgian Browning 20 O/U with solid rib, DT, straight grip stock and ejectors- Pre WW11 gun- as a result of a burglary. Went bak to the Model 12's I grew up on, but that LeFever DS- a 'finger of doom" for Sir Ruffs back "in the day"--

About 22 years ago, when I took up Bluegrass guitar, I bought a 1956 Martin HD-28 ( a Bluegrass Std. ) with case for the price of the cheaper Japanese assembled Martin Sigma series- from a pawn shop with some of my Xmas bonus check-the kid working there had been cleaning the acoustic guitars that were hung from the peg-heads, and the tags were slid under the strings and trapped by the frets- as luck (for me) would have had it, all the tags had apparently dropped, and he put a tag for a $150 Sigma on the HD-28 by mistake- and the $700 tag for the HD-28 on another Sigma- probably his thought process was- Martin-Martin-Fartin-?? what's the big deal..

I got a paid in full cash receipt with the serial number (you have to look through the sound hole- it is stamped into the neck where it meets the body (upper and lower bout)- so they would have no recourse- and cash talks at pawn shops and garage sales-

Do I feel badly about getting this "Steinway" for my first (now of 3) Vintage Martin D body guitars- Hell No. All pawn brokers are crooks by nature- they deserve to be hit hard where it hurts- they and auction houses and funeral homes are the only 3 elements of the economic fabric of America that will always prosper in bad economic times-

About 35 years ago I ran an ad in our local Buy&Sell for an English shotgun.A fellow came over and out of a raggedy soft guncase produced a Thomas Horsley 12 ga. SLE 30" Whitworth chopperlump steel barrels in nice condition,unfortunately with a cracked stock at the wrist. After listening to me moan about the cracked stock for a while he said,"If you don't want to buy it, maybe we can trade for something", as he was an avid sport fisherman, 15 minutes later, he left with a used Hardy Silex salmon reel and a big grin, and I had the Horsley with the same grin. I guess it was a classic win,win for both of us.I had the gun re-stocked to fit,with a nice piece of French walnut, and it was my go to pheasant gun for a number of years.