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SOME people have ALL the luck

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.

It's definitely a wild story, but it didn't really start any tears.

What would start the waterworks: Seeing a 416Rem in LEFTY. I think I'd drop to my knees in tears, right there in front of the counter.

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Hot gun being fenced, drunken pawn shop owner and idiot pawn, a bit of prevarication, one or all of the above?

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

can i crawl in a hole an die?

I want it
jeffe

And now this tosser is claiming he swapped the Merkel for a POS old Sharps!

When I visit Forums like that I realise how good it is here (and elsewhere of course ).

Picture this scenario.

1. Your wife buys something for $1800 thinking it is something else.

2. It turns out to be a double rifle worth $8000 plus, probably at least $12000.

3. You see a crappy old Sharps in the same store probably worth $2000, maybe $5000. (don't really care what the old clunker is worth).

4. You swap the rifle worth far more for the tosser .45/70 !!!

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

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

...I was wondering who bought my car...

jeffe

Hope he doesn't try any quail hunting with it!!

What a crock of shit.

That story is a big bunch of bull.

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.

You got to be shitten me!

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.)

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

jeffe