I must say if that story is true $1800 for a Merkel .470NE is criminal. I though I was doing good getting a pre-64 M70 for less than five hundred bucks.
Ah, NitroX, I have seen pictures of that POS Sharps. It is in incredibly good condition, and almost certainly worth more than the Merkel. If you know anything about Sharps 74's you know they are 5 figure rifles.
I have a Merkel double shotgun that I'll be willing to swap for a POS Sharps like that any day of any week.
Brent
Posts: 2257 | Location: Where I've bought resident tags:MN, WI, IL, MI, KS, GA, AZ, IA | Registered: 30 January 2002
I don't know about you guys, but out here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia, ALL the pawnshop owners are very very sharp businessmen with dozens of references on the type of gun, condition, original retail price, what it is worth in today's prices, etc. I find the story kindahard to believe.
You know this kinda stuff happens to me all the time. I mean, once I bought a porsche 911 from a disgruntled woman who's husband left her for his secretary for $10.00.
All the time...
-Steve
Posts: 2781 | Location: Hillsboro, Or-Y-Gun (Oregon), U.S.A. | Registered: 22 June 2000
I once found a Rigby model B Mauser in 30-06 in a pawn shop for $250. I didn't know what it was and was looking for a 7x57 so I let it go. I went home and looked through my books and saw what it was and what it was worth. I went back first thing in the morning, but the guy had gone out of bussiness and sold all his stock the night before. I couldn't locate the new owner of all the guns.
Posts: 2924 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: 23 December 2002
Posts: 8351 | Location: Jennings Louisiana, Arkansas by way of Alabama by way of South Carloina by way of County Antrim Irland by way of Lanarkshire Scotland. | Registered: 02 November 2001
I too unfortunately once turned down a Krieghof .375 H&H double for A$1100 (US$850) because I was looking for a deer rifle (a .30-06) and wanted a double in ,375 with scope mounts or a bigger calibre with open sights.
Never ever turn down an obvious good deal. Beg or borrow to buy it and you won't regret it later.
I did once drive a lot of kilometres on a Monday morning rather than turn up to work to buy the wonderful shotgun I looked at on Saturday even though I had just bought another shotgun a week or so earlier. A regret I will never have.
(Brent - a Sharps like this may well be worth 5 figures to some people but I wouldn't pay a $1000 for it, especially swapping a very useful rifle for a .... . Value is in the eye of the beholder.)
Posts: 10138 | Location: Wine Country, Barossa Valley, Australia | Registered: 06 March 2002
I found this springfield, but it was ugly modified to shoot a pistol looking round... while the fella only wanted 75 bucks for it, the mag was stamped "remington" and I had to pass for a savage 67 shotgun
Quote: (Brent - a Sharps like this may well be worth 5 figures to some people but I wouldn't pay a $1000 for it, especially swapping a very useful rifle for a .... . Value is in the eye of the beholder.)
Indeed, value is, and to me a Sharps is not only more beautiful than any modern merkel, it is also much more functional and useful. I'd kill for that Sharps he got. Likely, I'd have to kill to keep it too. They are very desirable among us eccentrics. I use little else than my very nice Shiloh Sharps reproduction where it is legal.
Brent
Posts: 2257 | Location: Where I've bought resident tags:MN, WI, IL, MI, KS, GA, AZ, IA | Registered: 30 January 2002
Didn't want to take an unsolicited shot at Fosters but you are right. Ours is made under license in Canada so it can still legally be called "imported" and I know first hand that even the Canadians can make a better brew than that.
Posts: 11143 | Location: Texas, USA | Registered: 22 September 2003
$1800 for a Merkel .470NE is criminal. I though I was doing good getting a pre-64 M70 for less than five hundred bucks.
