35 Whelen
Handloader
- Dec 22, 2011
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Scotty,
Having been mixed up in alot of 1886's over the years, bought and sold dozens of them I can tell you that 25 years sgo collectors would pay about double for a 45/70 over the .33W ?? I figured then that was not going to last......... sure enough
As the years have gone by the margin has gotten smaller and smaller. In 2003 I was at a gunshow looking for Deluxe Marlins
And some friends wanted me to check out a handsome 1886 PG Deluxe, it was a 33W. Everything was correct , the gun was minty , practically looked unhunted, and had the most fantastic.4X wood you would ever see on one. The guy had $4000 on
It. Laying right beside it was a 45/70, that had been heavily used , ELW configuration, with a poor bore, but compleatly right, although every screw in it, had had idiots on them with regular screwdrivers and where all butchered. The price was $4000, the caliber and configuration were its only vertues, So I told the young collector to offer the owner$ 3500, for the beautiful Deluxe 33,as I felt he would take it. And to push him along i also told him if he didn't by it; that I was planning on buying it right then! However I also gave him the option, if he did buy it, and if he ever got Buyers remorse, I would cover him anytime for the $3500. All his Winchester buddys told him they would have bought the 45/70 instead; because of the caliber. Even though he was very jumpy as he had never paid that much for a gun in his life, He took my advise, figuring he couldnt loose, and never looked back. The 33 Deluxe was spectacular, And as the years have passed things in his marriage Went south, he recently had to sell the gun, during a nasty divorce .That little 33W Deluxe fetched $12,700.................... so it isnt always about caliber!
Mike,
I am guessing the top 2/3 and she is just in the "family way" ?
Having been mixed up in alot of 1886's over the years, bought and sold dozens of them I can tell you that 25 years sgo collectors would pay about double for a 45/70 over the .33W ?? I figured then that was not going to last......... sure enough
As the years have gone by the margin has gotten smaller and smaller. In 2003 I was at a gunshow looking for Deluxe Marlins
And some friends wanted me to check out a handsome 1886 PG Deluxe, it was a 33W. Everything was correct , the gun was minty , practically looked unhunted, and had the most fantastic.4X wood you would ever see on one. The guy had $4000 on
It. Laying right beside it was a 45/70, that had been heavily used , ELW configuration, with a poor bore, but compleatly right, although every screw in it, had had idiots on them with regular screwdrivers and where all butchered. The price was $4000, the caliber and configuration were its only vertues, So I told the young collector to offer the owner$ 3500, for the beautiful Deluxe 33,as I felt he would take it. And to push him along i also told him if he didn't by it; that I was planning on buying it right then! However I also gave him the option, if he did buy it, and if he ever got Buyers remorse, I would cover him anytime for the $3500. All his Winchester buddys told him they would have bought the 45/70 instead; because of the caliber. Even though he was very jumpy as he had never paid that much for a gun in his life, He took my advise, figuring he couldnt loose, and never looked back. The 33 Deluxe was spectacular, And as the years have passed things in his marriage Went south, he recently had to sell the gun, during a nasty divorce .That little 33W Deluxe fetched $12,700.................... so it isnt always about caliber!
Mike,
I am guessing the top 2/3 and she is just in the "family way" ?
