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As I watched the Friday Rock Island Auction on Proxy Bid I saw them hammer a Winchester 86 at $1,025,000. A mint 86 rifle, 50 HV express, octagon barrel, plain trigger, fancy pistol grip carved style A stock, takedown, engraved $100 style #1. WOW, with the juice that’s $1,178,750. Did this really happen or was I dreaming? T/R
Since I don’t exactly hang out with that crowd, how does one complete a purchase such as this? Can you simply take out your checkbook and write a check for the full amount?
mrcvs said
Since I don’t exactly hang out with that crowd, how does one complete a purchase such as this? Can you simply take out your checkbook and write a check for the full amount?
Wire transfer
According to RIA terms and conditions they accept cash, cashier’s check, personal checks (with prior approval of RIAC’s management), MasterCard, Visa or Discover. Good luck with the credit card! Wire transfer makes sense to me. If you have $1,178,750. for a gun what’s a few dollars for a wire transfer. I bet he never shoots it! T/R
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TR said
According to RIA terms and conditions they accept cash, cashier’s check, personal checks (with prior approval of RIAC’s management), MasterCard, Visa or Discover. Good luck with the credit card! Wire transfer makes sense to me. If you have $1,178,750. for a gun what’s a few dollars for a wire transfer. I bet he never shoots it! T/R
Talk about racking up some points on the credit card if that one goes through! Probably not a whole bunch of folks out there with a credit limit that high.
Erin
What an example of one of the finest rifles produced by Winchester craftsmen. Signed by Ulrich too!
Is anyone aware of another Winchester selling for higher than this privately or in an auction?
For the other Aussies on here, that equates to $1,657,440.38 AUD with the current exchange rate…
Chris
A man can never have too many WINCHESTERS...
I’d pay $10 if it were on tour and I got to hold it for 1 minute and look at it.
I was wonder who here got it 
Didn’t Winchester M1886 serial number 1 sell in the last couple years? For over a million? I can’t recall now.
TR said
If I had that kind of money I wouldn’t buy just one Winchester. T/R
If I had that kind of money I wouldn’t spend it on a Winchester. For that kind of money you can get some nice real estate — significant tract of land, oceanfront, or desirable urban property. Just being realistic.
Plus, a lot of this stuff has been monkeyed with or “improved”. Anyone recall serial number 1 auctioned off a few years ago?
How would you like to spend that kind of money only to find out, down the road, it isn’t quite right?
TR said
If I had that kind of money I wouldn’t buy just one Winchester. T/R
Who said he bought only one? I’m just an engineer in Hollywood but around here I’ve known people who buy million dollar cars to add to their collection of million dollar cars.
It’s a different universe altogether when you’re buying in that class.
Steve
WACA Member. CFM Member. NRA Lifer.
supergimp said
Who said he bought only one? I’m just an engineer in Hollywood but around here I’ve known people who buy million dollar cars to add to their collection of million dollar cars.
It’s a different universe altogether when you’re buying in that class.
Steve
We could name a lot of names here, but who came to mind immediately was Wes Adams.
jban said
I’d pay $10 if it were on tour and I got to hold it for 1 minute and look at it.
If 117,875 people paid $10 to hold it for 1 minute the buyer would have it paid for in 117,875 minutes= over 81 days. Pay it off in 81 days? Go for it jban. T/R
The only thing that comes to my mind is Holy C**p!!
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
jban said
I’d pay $10 if it were on tour and I got to hold it for 1 minute and look at it.
If it went on tour you would not be able to touch it. You could only tuck dollar bills in the finger lever as it danced by.
Used to visit those tours.
Dominic
Oldgrayguns said
If it went on tour you would not be able to touch it. You could only tuck dollar bills in the finger lever as it danced by.
Used to visit those tours.
Dominic
If it were mine, no one would get within arms reach of it to tuck those dollars. And I doubt even I would dance around it. Gracious, seems that I can mar a Winchester just by thinking about it–with only good thoughts!
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