Log In
Members
Home
Add Reply
Add Topic
I have to clear an account with a vender and this rifle is the closest to the dollar value necessary.
What is a fair price to buy the rifle, and what can I sell it for. I have a feeling it’s priced too high already. I’m just looking to get close.
Thanks in advance,
Bill
Blueliner said
I have to clear an account with a vender and this rifle is the closest to the dollar value necessary.What is a fair price to buy the rifle, and what can I sell it for. I have a feeling it’s priced too high already. I’m just looking to get close.
Thanks in advance,
Bill
A tad high IMHO. Maybe worth that much later but I have bought these in the $400 range. Big Larry
Bill, in my opinion this is a $200 to $300 gun. It appears in the poor photos to be refinished. There is wear at the magazine surround but the mag release button is pristine. Appeared to have been cleaned up a bit at wrist where oils and such show high use but receiver and barrel show little use. Just my opinion from poor pictures.
Vince
Vince
Southern Oregon
NRA member
Fraternal Order of Eagles
“There is but one answer to be made to the dynamite bomb and that can best be made by the Winchester rifle.”
Teddy Roosevelt
Blueliner said
I have to clear an account with a vender and this rifle is the closest to the dollar value necessary.What is a fair price to buy the rifle, and what can I sell it for. I have a feeling it’s priced too high already. I’m just looking to get close.
Thanks in advance,
Bill
Bill,
Sorry I am late to the discussion and your question. As others have mentioned, the price is too high. Wholesale/dealer value on that specific rifle (G6902R which was the most prolific 69A produced) is about $300 and full retail is $450-$500 (IF it has not been re-blued or refinished). Sorry I can’t see the photos more clearly to give you an originality opinion.
Bottom line is to keep looking for your compensation, that 69A only gets you halfway.
Looking forward to seeing you again at a show sometime, somewhere in 2018.
Best Regards,
WACA Life Member #6284 - Specializing in Pre-64 Winchester .22 Rimfire
Thanks for the input, JWA.
I felt it was overpriced too, as most of this vendors guns are. I cleared the account with a fine concealed carry Kimber KGs.
Bill
November 7, 2015
Offline
Good call with the Kimber. I bought a nicer 69A for about $400 recently.
What is the difference between the 69 and 69a ? also Value ? Collectability ?
TXGunNut said
Good call with the Kimber. I bought a nicer 69A for about $400 recently.
Mike,
I bought the Kimber Ultra CDP II 45ACP compact. It’s a fantastic carry gun and the technology brings the 45 recoil way down. The Kimber K6s I got to clear out a credit with a vendor is a very slick and smooth 357/38+P revolver and is really small. I’m sure I”ll be using the 38+P most the time !
Bill
Blueliner said
What is the difference between the 69 and 69a ? also Value ? Collectability ?
The M69 cocks on the closing of the bolt like the M56 and M57. The M69-A has the speedlock and no cocking knob.
As far as collectibility goes, most collectors would lean to the M69 as it is older and built a little better. All are pre war made. The M69’s are beautiful little rifles. I own several so I can attest to that. I would and have paid more for nice M69’s. I have a beauty that is 99% and I paid a little extra to get it. They are not as plentiful as the M69-A, but as a shooter, I prefer the 69-A. Big Larry
Big Larry said
The M69 cocks on the closing of the bolt like the M56 and M57. The M69-A has the speedlock and no cocking knob.
Which reminds me of the first M52 I ever owned or shot, a 2nd yr production gun which especially appealed to me because of that ’03-style cocking knob; but how was I to know that, unlike the ’03 and most other American bolt guns, it cocked on closing??? I was incredulous, dismayed, and shooting a few boxes through it didn’t make me like it any better, so at the next gun show I attended, it passed into other hands.
And by the way, having Houze’s book before I bought it wouldn’t have spared me this disappointment, because not ONE word does he have to say about why the original 52s were designed this (un-American) way, or why the change was later made to cock on opening–the right way.
1 Guest(s)
