The average 1866|Page 3|Winchester Rifles|Forum|Winchester Collector

I used to travel with $40-50,000.00 or more in My boot, and the .38 Detective in the other boot, cowboy boots are good for that. I haven’t done that in a while. Last year at Cody I had a trusting fellow, whom I had never met, take My personal I.O.U. , (until I got home back to Ontario),for $16,000.00, after getting well referenced from some of My fellow members. I also used to prepay My credit card for a large sum, but that gets really expensive. There is always a way for those determined. I guess if I didn’t have a large amount of cash or at least access to it , There probably would be no use going to the shows. I learned My lesson many years ago at a Florida show  when a beautiful case colored 1894 walked in the door and I didn’t have enough cash in hand to buy it, another fellow Win. collector did buy it, I’ve kicked My self many times since.

Henry Mero said
I used to travel with $40-50,000.00 or more in My boot, and the .38 Detective in the other boot, cowboy boots are good for that. I haven’t done that in a while. Last year at Cody I had a trusting fellow, whom I had never met, take My personal I.O.U. , (until I got home back to Ontario),for $16,000.00, after getting well referenced from some of My fellow members. I also used to prepay My credit card for a large sum, but that gets really expensive. There is always a way for those determined. I guess if I didn’t have a large amount of cash or at least access to it , There probably would be no use going to the shows. I learned My lesson many years ago at a Florida show  when a beautiful case colored 1894 walked in the door and I didn’t have enough cash in hand to buy it, another fellow Win. collector did buy it, I’ve kicked My self many times since.
  

Henry – sorry to hear about you missing out on the case hardened 94 – it would be a sickening experience since only 157 were made. I was looking at some notes I have made over the years and it appears you were eventually able to secure one of these rare and special guns – a checkered variation in 32-40. You probably have more Winchesters than anyone I am familiar with and I am sure the case hardened 94 is one of your most prized specimens. I got a kick out of your reference to lots of cash in your cowboy boot. Tommy Rholes used to do the same thing. How much cash does it take to equal the weight of a .38 detective – just to keep well balanced!

Here’s my boot. I used them when flying to Vegas long before you hand to take your shoes off. I found you can’t run to good with cowboy boots when you have to make a connecting flight

Bob.

if you had your pick of one of these 3 66 rifles, which one? Octagon barrel or round barrel?

1873man said
The middle one.
Bob
  

10/4 I think that’s the one I actually held and was told $6600 on it, what sticks out most to you about the middle one?

1873man said
The round barrel is not as desirable as a octagon and of the two remaining the middle one looks to have a nicer barrel and tube. The rear barrel sight is the early style while the other has the later one so I figure it might be a earlier gun. The receivers look fairly close on condition so based on one marginal photo I liked that one more. I would never buy a gun based on one photo.
Bob
  

For sure, did not know about the rear sights, they to me are in pretty good condition considering what I’ve seen online, I held the middle one iirc, did not get to work the action but if I go back down with more intention to buy I will definitely ask to get the zip tie cut and work the action look down barrel etc, but they look as good in person as picture shows, that’s why I’m really getting it in my head if I have the chance to get one for that money and be able to see it in person within a couple hours of home, hard to just not pick it up. Knowing they will only go up in value. He has 2 carbines to the right but I’m more interested in the rifles.

Sometimes the condition of the brass is more important than the bluing.  Most people that buy a Henry or 66 figure they will never shoot it so they look at them in a different way.  What is the ring around the screw on the middle one?

Bob is absolutely correct, need more pictures.

Was also wondering about the ring myself lol, not sure what it would be from, I hope to make it back down to the store again in the next while, I’ll definitely check it over more next time and try to take some Pictures and shoot them over. 

TR said
  I would look it over, $6600 is cheap, maybe a reason it’s cheap. Any damage or repair to the receiver is a deal breaker. T/R
  

In such a case, what’s its worth?   The sum of the parts? I’m starting to see a correlation between original old guns and original old tractors.  

TR said
  I would look it over, $6600 is cheap, maybe a reason it’s cheap. Any damage or repair to the receiver is a deal breaker. T/R
  

Well he’s got 5 66s there and probably more guns than any shop in Nc, and that’s no joke it’s pretty crazy, but originally he wanted $7500, I left and then called back eh a couple weeks later to talk some more and then he came down after I offered him 6k. But if that’s cheap then I dunno I thought it was a fair price from what I’ve seen them realistically go for and not just the high prices posted.