price check, winchester centennial 1866-1966

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i'm the first to admit that i have no knowledge regarding lever actions so perhaps cgn can help me, help my stepdad out.

he is starting to sell some of his rifles that he never uses to maintain a smaller selection of hunting rifles only.

most of the rifles are well used, but in good shape, bolt guns, so their value is easy to determine, but he has a minty winchester centennial 1866-1966 in 30-30 winchester.

it has the brass(or gold?) receiver, with a brass(or gold?) forearm stock tip, and it has the 20" full octagon barrel.

he says he bought it quite a few years back from a friends dad, who claims to have only put a half box of shells thru it, my stepdad says he has never fired the rifle since buying it, he said it was too nice a rifle to take out to the bush.

i will upload some pics shortly, but i'm just trying to find out what a reasonable price would be for it.

thanks
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Once it is fired, the value drops drastically. The fired gun is considered as a "shooter" and same as a weathered, hunted rifle. Value about the 350-550 range. Someone may get it to "bush" a nicer looking gun. Even though it is a commemorative issue, there are so many coming out of the wood works now, thier value seems to have dropped.
 
Winnipeg Toymaker said:
Once it is fired, the value drops drastically. The fired gun is considered as a "shooter" and same as a weathered, hunted rifle. Value about the 350-550 range. Someone may get it to "bush" a nicer looking gun. Even though it is a commemorative issue, there are so many coming out of the wood works now, thier value seems to have dropped.
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W T has said it all, once fired it becomes just another nice rifle and looses any collectability. FS
 
About $550, unfired, in the box, box crisp. These cost $125 in 1966. I saw a variety of commemoratives sold at auction a week ago. That's what they were bringing.
 
once fired

Once fired, the collector value goes down. At that point the shiny ones lose favour with me as I'd prefer a less shiny one in the bush anyways. I've been tempted to find one that has some flaking or pitting on the gold plate and get it bead/soda blasted. Not a NIB one, but a shooter. It would probably be worth the same after the bead blast of the shiny surfaces in my opinion, as a shooter.
 
The last pair of Buffalo Bill's I sold, sequentially numbered, a matching rifle and carbine, brought $ 900 for the pair, NIB - unfired. Centennials are even "less" unique ! Both were going to be immediately put to use as shooters.
 
Centenial Winchesters

I bought one last August, at auction, brand new in the box, with all the tags and book, $375.00, shoots amazingly well, 2"to 3" at 100 yds, 165 grn lead cast, with the original sights, hope to improve that , with addition of good tang sight in the future, this is off a bench and sand bags, regards Bully
 
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