My New Toy!! Opinion?
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very nice condition for something that old!!
Dad has(its at my place lately) an 1893. No where near as nice as yours. Of course its very rare, so that helps!
Thanx for sharing!
Dad has(its at my place lately) an 1893. No where near as nice as yours. Of course its very rare, so that helps!
Thanx for sharing!
antiqueguy
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no you want to have shells that fit your gun or when the crimp opens up it will open into the forcing cone
just have the thing checked or do it your self
If you like it, you hang onto it.
If I sold everything I ever got, just because somebody else wanted it, I wouldn't have ANY left.
But I do have this habit of hanging onto things because I like them, too.
Buffdog and Tinman204 both have seen some of what I have picked up over the years, Twosteam has seen a few more. I think any of them will agree that I have put together a fair sampling of what is out there.
But if you sell everything as soon as the dollar is right, you are not a collector, you're a dealer. I was offered $200 more for my Armageurra 39 than I paid for it....... but I kept it. I have the distinct PLEASURE of possessing one of perhaps THREE Armaguerras in the country..... and a couple of slips of plastic do not compensate for the loss which that pleasure affords me.
YOU have a very nice old 1897 Winchester which Bubba has NOT been at and which is in rather a nice state of preservation. It has come down to you from the men who made it, 102 years ago. To me, it sounds like a fine centrepiece to a Collection.
If you LIKE it, hang onto it. If you USE it, that's fine, too: just don't ABUSE it and it's good for another 102 years. You can make up your mind as to selling it THEN.
Just my take on things.
Hope this helps.
If I sold everything I ever got, just because somebody else wanted it, I wouldn't have ANY left.
But I do have this habit of hanging onto things because I like them, too.
Buffdog and Tinman204 both have seen some of what I have picked up over the years, Twosteam has seen a few more. I think any of them will agree that I have put together a fair sampling of what is out there.
But if you sell everything as soon as the dollar is right, you are not a collector, you're a dealer. I was offered $200 more for my Armageurra 39 than I paid for it....... but I kept it. I have the distinct PLEASURE of possessing one of perhaps THREE Armaguerras in the country..... and a couple of slips of plastic do not compensate for the loss which that pleasure affords me.
YOU have a very nice old 1897 Winchester which Bubba has NOT been at and which is in rather a nice state of preservation. It has come down to you from the men who made it, 102 years ago. To me, it sounds like a fine centrepiece to a Collection.
If you LIKE it, hang onto it. If you USE it, that's fine, too: just don't ABUSE it and it's good for another 102 years. You can make up your mind as to selling it THEN.
Just my take on things.
Hope this helps.
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