It is refinished, both wood and metal over pits. The seller states it to be! It looks like 3 bidders took it way over its value! Not knowing what their looking at. I would call it reblued certainly not restored, someone paid way to much for a 400-500 dollar gun

A friend of mine reminded me a while back, on a strategy his friend uses when posting at auction. He ends his auctions a little later on a Friday or Saturday evening, hoping to get the inebriated crowd, in on the bidding, as their inhibitions tend to wane, and the purse strings loosen up! Gotta love this sales pitch and the world in which we live. We had this discussion a long while ago, and when he reminded me, although I really didn’t forget it, he was thinking that more than just his friend thinks along those lines. It’s hard to bid against or compete against those odds when you think about it.

Anthony

azscooby said

Bert H. said

Somebody (the winning bidder) did exactly what you did… they did not read the entire auction description! That rifle has been 100% refinished (wood & steel) and is not worth more than 25% of the winning bid amount.  In my experience, there is an absolute plethora of truly ignorant Gunbroker buyers!

Bert

  

  

Yep!  Too funny, and you’re right!  to be fair, if I were bidding on it I’d have read the ad at least twice as my money doesn’t come easy, nor is there any to waste on silly mistakes.

i just wanted to make sure.  I see some things bring crazy money like this, and I just can’t understand it.  I wasn’t aware people could just stiff a seller with no consequences.  I usually don’t bid on things because I know myself too well and can’t get into a bidding war,  I’ll put in a “I’d buy it at this price bid” and forget about it.  I have actually won a couple this way.

ive had luck with buy it now prices and contact the seller to “reduce” fees.  Got a LR 1890 coming in today that I got for about $200  cheaper outside of GB, allegedly…

  

The BIN feature is, not often but occasionally, set a little low,  which seems to bring out the venality in some bottom-feeding dealers, who will spend the entire length of the auction except the last 30 minutes nickel and diming one another, trying to save fifty bucks. 

For reasons that are lost to time, I wanted a nice Remington 600 magnum .350,  which is still popular in Alaska and long discontinued. A Seattle dealer put a 98% one up on GB with a BIN of $950, which was a very reasonable price. I came across it about an hour before closing and there must have been thirty bids, topped out at $851 or something, almost all the bidders being FFLs.

I looked at the pictures, checked out the seller, scratched my chin and said approximately, “We’ll,  heck” and knocked it down.  Now you see it, now you don’t. 

The Seller was a reputable bricks and mortar store, it turned out, and on my promise not to sue him, threw in two large freezer bags full of the prior owner’s once-fired reloads, the second bag being 250 grain RN Hornady Interlocks.  I pulled a couple of the bullets and weighed what looked like IMR 4350 in a very prudent quantity. Safe and accurate but headache inducing. 

Sometimes, if you know the Model and the market, it really pays off, to offset the auctions you wish in retrospect you’d never seen. 

[With apologies for mentioning Big Green. This one is part of my Oddballs & Monstrosities collection, at one time displayed next to a 1966 Winchester Model 70 .243.]

Anyone who says the old .30 Winchester Centerfire cartridge is “inherently inaccurate” has never seen the eye-popping groups of which it was capable in the relatively inexpensive Remington 588. To add insult to injury, you can mention the 588 was a rear-locking bolt action design. 

Paul, you’re right, of course. 788, not 588.  I had a hunting lease partner with one in 22-250 that was impressive. He kept it in the trunk of his car along with his other tools, although I noticed he was careful to protect the muzzle crown. 

If I remember the action correctly, it had multiple locking lugs and a 60 degree bolt lift.  The receiver could be milled from round stock in a single pass with a tool indexed in the bolt raceway, mounted with multiple cutters.  That had to have been Mike Walker’s doing. 

I always wondered if the company killed the 788 because it was [urinating] in the Model 700’s soup.