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Some have reported they located such & such gun, whatever they were looking for, being sold by So & So’s auction house, which they’d never have heard of except through this site or service. Gun Broker & Guns Int. have the same listings month after month after month–one I saw again today has been there at least one YEAR at the same sucker-price!
Anybody know the website I’m talking about?
clarence said
Some have reported they located such & such gun, whatever they were looking for, being sold by So & So’s auction house, which they’d never have heard of except through this site or service. Gun Broker & Guns Int. have the same listings month after month after month–one I saw again today has been there at least one YEAR at the same sucker-price!Anybody know the website I’m talking about?
Clarence,
I use several websites to peruse upcoming (and recently sod) Winchesters, here are a few;
https://www.icollector.com/auctionlist.aspx?aca=880000
https://www.invaluable.com/catalog/advancedSearch.cfm?srchScope=u
https://www.proxibid.com/Firearms-Military-Artifacts/marketplace/10
That should keep you quite busy…
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
I think the other one they talk about is Wards.
https://wardscollectibles.com/viewcat.php?category=4
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Thanks Bert & ’73man . I think Proxibid is the one I was thinking of, but I’ll check out the others too. Not looking for a 1 of 1000, or anything else I can’t afford, merely a good, un-tampered, with 52A. Only produced 3 yrs!
Proxibid will have auctions from a lot of places, from small auction houses to big ones.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
1873man said
Proxibid will have auctions from a lot of places, from small auction houses to big ones.Bob
Yes, that would be the big advantage over being limited to only what GB & GI dishes up.
I’ve been watching a few Winchesters on G.I. they have been advertised continuosly now by the same major seller for over 4 years, and He is not negotiable on the price. There should be a message here for Him about the price, however they are His guns and He can ask what ever He wants.
W.A.C.A. life member, Marlin Collectors Assn. charter and life member, C,S.S.A. member and general gun nut.
Henry Mero said
I’ve been watching a few Winchesters on G.I. they have been advertised continuosly now by the same major seller for over 4 years, and He is not negotiable on the price. There should be a message here for Him about the price, however they are His guns and He can ask what ever He wants.
The message is, he has little in them & if he can’t get his sucker-price, they aren’t for sale. Guns even half-way reasonably priced, & I don’t mean “great bargains,” sell quickly.
Bert H. said
That should keep you quite busy…
Bert
Not as much as I was hoping for. Only about a doz 52s listed (all but one or two Proxibid), many modified, none the model I was looking for.
clarence said
Not as much as I was hoping for. Only about a doz 52s listed (all but one or two Proxibid), many modified, none the model I was looking for.
Clarence,
Did you try the other two websites I mentioned? I try to peruse the listings on each website at least once a month, and in the past, have searched some really old “past” auctions, but my primary purpose is to located Winchesters I can add to the various research surveys. I also have nearly (500) old auction catalogs from at least a dozen different auction services… lots of historical auction listings and prices realized.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
Clarence- that 52A seems to be an elusive one, I have been helping a friend try and find a nice one for a little over a year and we’ve come up empty- in that time he came across a couple of 52E’s and snatched them both, now he only needs he a to have one hell of a 52 collection. I thought the E was the hardest to find, Andy it might be, but that dang a sure isn’t an easy one
Bert H. said
Clarence,
Did you try the other two websites I mentioned?
Bert
Yes, all 3 plus Ward’s.
Bill Hanzel said
Clarence- that 52A seems to be an elusive one, I have been helping a friend try and find a nice one for a little over a year and we’ve come up empty- in that time he came across a couple of 52E’s and snatched them both, now he only needs he a to have one hell of a 52 collection. I thought the E was the hardest to find, Andy it might be, but that dang a sure isn’t an easy one
Tell me about it! Not trying to make a collection, just looking for another one to shoot. (Have one already.) Had an early one, 2nd yr, & a B, disliked them both, & no interest at all in the late ones, D & E.
There’s an A Sporter in of these lists, if your friend has 5 Gs to part with. Sporters, with their pencil barrels, I have no interest in either, even if I had the money for one.
November 7, 2015
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Have you tried Merz? My shooting buddy has scored some nice 52’s from him in recent years.
Mike
TXGunNut said
Have you tried Merz? My shooting buddy has scored some nice 52’s from him in recent years.
Mike
THAT stage of desperation I’ll never reach!
He has no interest in the sporter either, he doesn’t have that kind of money to drop on one, nor would he if he had it. I am happy with my pre letter 52, that is supposed to have the trigger before the speed lock, I have never verified that because I really liked the gun and bought it to shoot(and boy does it).
Bill Hanzel said
He has no interest in the sporter either, he doesn’t have that kind of money to drop on one, nor would he if he had it. I am happy with my pre letter 52, that is supposed to have the trigger before the speed lock, I have never verified that because I really liked the gun and bought it to shoot(and boy does it).
If it has the cocking knob at the end of the firing pin, it does not have the speed lock. I like the cocking knob, but that model also cocks on closing, which I hated about the one I once had.
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