RARE rifles on the EE

the spank said:
I bet you'd have paid a rare price to get your mitts on them Cleo's Doug showed you how to use?! :p
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Lawst'im both he sent me.
Cheap eye bawls awn dem hewks.
Lost a beee yewtee on my favorite lake upp'ear.
My highschool chum was with me that day.
Heez a taws a fly sort awf chap.
I don't hold it against'im.
This fish jumped four times out of the water.
Fourth jump had only a mouth jewel in it.
We still yap about that day.
Broke the goll dang leader.

Haven't been able to find a Cleo in my travels.

I wish I was located up here when Doug paid me a visit.
I'm sure he'd love to fish this local favorite lake.

We had a chat earlier this evening.

We need to find Woof-Woof............where is he?
 
It's also rare to get a reasonable accurate discription of the condition. Many ads have dinged and scratched stocks, bluing worn or some rust and say that it is in excellent condition - NOT
They is also the fallacy that the older a firearms is the above standards should be on a sliding scale, crap bores, 0 bluing, split stocks etc.... are perfectly acceptable and deserve an excellent rating
 
FatCatsDad said:
LOL, I bought that model 7 , not rare, just not many up for sale , 700's are all over all the time.
I can go 5 or 6 months and not see a 7 for sale
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Sounds like 'not commonly seen for sale" rather than rare would have been a better description ;)

I've been accumulating FN1900 rifles for a few years now, I used to refer to them as "rare" but now that I own seven of 4913 made, I just call them rifles :cool:
 
Raton57 said:
My bone to pick is this Pre 64 Winchester anything. Many guns built in the 62,63,64 were built with such poor tolerances due to wore out machinery that they are not real collectibles.
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Those old Winchesters are only 80 hours of skilled machine work, 13 trick moves, a new barrel and stock away from the equal of any mass produced rifle of the present day!
 
I too recommend a definition be determined and listed for "rare", and if a post doesn't meet the definition, the Moderator either pulls it or edits it.
Same for condition; where there are already set definitions used by firearms organizations.

For now, I just shake my head at the posts where the second most common lever action rifle, in its most common chambering, gets listed as "rare", and move on.
Can't help those not willing to help themselves! (and won't)
 
Same for condition; where there are already set definitions used by firearms organizations.
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I wish this were the case

I remember being really pleasantly surprised once when a user described a gun as in “ good condition” with minor scratches and actually meant NRA good, as in I had to look hard to find the dings. Usually that would be a way of saying it was somewhere between Fair and “ parts” from my CGN experience
 
BlackRam said:
I too recommend a definition be determined and listed for "rare", and if a post doesn't meet the definition, the Moderator either pulls it or edits it.
Same for condition; where there are already set definitions used by firearms organizations....
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You and I might wish for this, but sorry, making it mandatory and monitored is never going to happen. I think the CGN EE guidelines are actually pretty reasonable as is, there has to be a balance and we want it to stay a free market.

Anyways, well-informed buyers (like apparently everyone contributing to this thread) generally know enough to interpret "questionable" item descriptions. For the less informed buyers, it's no different from buying a used car...


hoytcanon said:
... I guess buyers should be armed with good information.
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You got it: Caveat emptor, or "buyer beware". It's as old as human history.

A well-informed buyer knows very well how rare or hard-to-find something is without needing the seller to tell them. If the seller puts it in their description (for whatever reason), they're not speaking to the pool of well-informed buyers.
 
A&Shuntr said:
It's also rare to get a reasonable accurate discription of the condition. Many ads have dinged and scratched stocks, bluing worn or some rust and say that it is in excellent condition - NOT
They is also the fallacy that the older a firearms is the above standards should be on a sliding scale, crap bores, 0 bluing, split stocks etc.... are perfectly acceptable and deserve an excellent rating
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X2...Just looked at a rifle i thought i might be purchaseing as it was listed as Exellent condition...The firearm was "Gòod" condition not even very good...scratch n dent/wore out blueing is not exellent condition
 
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