No.4 T price check?

$1500 might get you a mismatched beater if you're lucky. If it's a matching, all correct good condition rifle for that price, it's a steal.
 
Lots of variables....... :)

With or without transit chest and accessories, matched or not matched, year of mfg, provenance or not, scope needs work by Laidler or not.... etc....

It's all about details, plus laws of supply and demand.... ;)

Regards,
Badger
 
HI,If there were 4 snipers at a gun show how come they are never advertized on gunnuts or in the Canadian access gun paper.I only seen 1 #4(T) advertized in Canadian access this year.It sold to the first caller for $3000.00.If they want to sell why would they limit themselves to a few hundered people at a gun show?
Eric
 
superbee said:
HI,If there were 4 snipers at a gun show how come they are never advertized on gunnuts or in the Canadian access gun paper.
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You have to remember that the primary demographic of serious milsurp gun collectors, besides being male, is generally comprised of an older group of folks. The dealers at these shows are generally also amongst an older generation, who have been selling this way for years. I know many of these old guys who have some really nice stuff they're sitting on, which when I pry it out them will have never even seen the hard disk of a computer before I got to it. :D

Their computer literacy is low and they really don't know how to use this Internet phenomenon as a selling vehicle, as opposed to the old face-to-face over the counter kind of retail selling.

As much as we'd like to think that we have huge following of collectors/sellers on CGN, or anywhere on the Internet, I'd guess that it represents only about 30% of the total amount of folks with pieces for sale, or who want to buy.

Just my opinion........ ;)

Regards,
Badger
 
Good chance the same dealer will be at the Orangeville show.

I think computer literate people over estimate the penetration of the Internet.
I am constantly suprised by the number of people I talk to at the range, when the coversation comes around to GunNutz, who tell me they don't "do the Internet". Not just older guys but lots of young ones as well.

Of the hundreds of dealers at the local gun shows, I've only recognized one on here selling. Rarely, I'll see a gun on here that I recognize from the show.
 
I totally agree about the best stuff never seeing a hard drive. I work in an army surplus store and meet lots of cool old guys with great collections.
Quote"the interwhat? never heard of it"
I would love a "T" but could never afford one and if I could I would feel bad shooting it so I may just get a repro scope and rear stock for my Parker Hale
and pretend.
 
I consider them an investment; they only seem to go up in price. I bought my first one from Kearns and McMurchy 6 years ago for $800. The box and the scope case will sell for more than that today, just 6 years later. I continued to keep trading up on these rifles until I got my holy grail, a LongBranch 4T. Of course, I now have to try and find an earlier one, as my 45 dated (and all matching) example is technically post war.

At $3300 they should be origional, and hopefully matching, and come with some accessories. At least, thats this years guide. By next year the scope and bracket may routinely sell for that much. In the last two weeks on ebay, one British scope, bracket, and can sold for over $3100, while a Cdn scope and bracket sold for over $2100.

Back to the origional question....$1500 a fair price? Might be a bit high for a bare T rifle with it's pads and cheek rest (but no scope or accessories) but it certainly is a great price for a rifle with scope.
 
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