RARE rifles on the EE

Buckmastr said:
What’s rare is people not complaining about something these days.
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Says the guy passive aggressively complaining about people complaining...

hawk-i said:
One that gets me is "never fired by me"
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I bought a gun, reloader only cartridge, decided to switch to left handed, sold it before I got brass so I never shot it. It was an old Mauser so it was definitely fired by others before me though...

Grain said:
"New in box, less than a box of ammo shot to sight in."

Right....
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When funding my lefty rifle I sold a Rem 783 with exactly 20 rounds down the pipe. Only took it shooting once before I decided I was switching to left...


So if I've had both of these scenarios happen with less than 30 trader rating, I bet a lot of the guys with 200+ have done the same at one point or another...
 
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So if I've had both of these scenarios happen with less than 30 trader rating, I bet a lot of the guys with 200+ have done the same at one point or another...
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I think the point is more that it’s impossible to prove if these claims are true, and they are made with stunning regularity


“Save the tax!”

My favourite questions: “ how many rounds down the pipe?” “How does she group?”

For most guns I’ve owned I have no damn clue on the first one as they are generally older than I am. As for the second…
 
Doug said:
Yes, I know this has come up before, like some of the other threads that never really die.........

But lately there has been a profusion of folks trying to sell "RARE" guns that just are NOT rare on the EE Hunting and Sporting arms forum. Really???

Yes I am a grumpy old fart. ;)

Doug
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Oh YEA so RARE I want double to triple $ what it’s really Worth? :p:bsFlag: RJ
 
Sometimes it's marketing by the seller. Sometimes the damned thing is legitimately rare. Example, my brother is selling our late father's HK770. That thing is pretty damn rare. Not rare necause it was junk, or rare because of some made up reason. Rare because it's a damned uncommon rifle. I've been gunnutting for many years, and I can only remember seeing one other example either in a gun store, and never in the wild. I'd also be willing to bet that he has never fired the rifle, either when my father had it from new, or in the almost 8 years since he passed. One thing is for sure...someone is going to get a great rifle.

It's fun to be cranky old farts, but dont let the fun of being a cranky old fart distract from evaluating every rifle deal on its merits.
 
BigUglyMan said:
Sometimes it's marketing by the seller. Sometimes the damned thing is legitimately rare. Example, my brother is selling our late father's HK770. That thing is pretty damn rare. Not rare necause it was junk, or rare because of some made up reason. Rare because it's a damned uncommon rifle. I've been gunnutting for many years, and I can only remember seeing one other example either in a gun store, and never in the wild. I'd also be willing to bet that he has never fired the rifle, either when my father had it from new, or in the almost 8 years since he passed. One thing is for sure...someone is going to get a great rifle.

It's fun to be cranky old farts, but dont let the fun of being a cranky old fart distract from evaluating every rifle deal on its merits.
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Canadian Tire in Dartmouth N.S. had a few of those with the odd SL7 and SL6 back in the eighties. Only thing stopping me was the price, lol.
 
BigUglyMan said:
Sometimes it's marketing by the seller. Sometimes the damned thing is legitimately rare. Example, my brother is selling our late father's HK770. That thing is pretty damn rare. Not rare necause it was junk, or rare because of some made up reason. Rare because it's a damned uncommon rifle. I've been gunnutting for many years, and I can only remember seeing one other example either in a gun store, and never in the wild. I'd also be willing to bet that he has never fired the rifle, either when my father had it from new, or in the almost 8 years since he passed. One thing is for sure...someone is going to get a great rifle.

It's fun to be cranky old farts, but dont let the fun of being a cranky old fart distract from evaluating every rifle deal on its merits.
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I've seen a few 630,770, and 940's around. Now if you really want to make it rare, in 1988 I ordered a HK 770 LEFT HANDED complete with one extra 3 round (came with one 3 round) and two 10 round magazines and the HK-05 QD scope mount. Even back then it cost me over $2500. This qualifies as not only rare, but odd.
 
Grain said:
"New in box, less than a box of ammo shot to sight in."

Right....
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Suther said:
When funding my lefty rifle I sold a Rem 783 with exactly 20 rounds down the pipe. Only took it shooting once before I decided I was switching to left...
So if I've had both of these scenarios happen with less than 30 trader rating, I bet a lot of the guys with 200+ have done the same at one point or another...
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My point wasn't that I don't believe them, but rather that it is no longer NIB if its been shot 20 times.
 
remington jim said:
Something to REMEMBER too ! just because it’s RARE or ODD or OLD doesn’t mean it’s WORTH a LOT ! JMO RJ
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Or that you can get back out of it what you have into it. Some people pay stupid prices for things, and then expect that they can recoup that price when they try to sell them.
 
KePet said:
Or that you can get back out of it what you have into it. Some people pay stupid prices for things, and then expect that they can recoup that price when they try to sell them.
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Yup, a s.hitty rattle can paint job is not a custom stock
 
I have sold a few rare guns, never bought one .:cool:
Have bought some Hi priced collector stuff .
Only one would be a Singer 1911 That you would call rare.
 
I see it all the time..they think they are rare rifles...I really love when people put "Rare" on their adds for commemorative rifles, Like the Alberta Jubilee etc.. They made tens of thousands of them for the collector market. There are still thousands around in the collector market because they were for collectors. No one shot them, and no one used them. not rare at all because of this. Just do your home work on anything you see marked as rare.
 
One other thing, when I do use the term "rare," I state why it is rare and how many total production of that configuration and often the date of manufacture (or years of manufacture) as well.

For example in 1999 a French (France not QC) company ordered 300 Ruger M77-RS Mark II rifles in 7X64 Brenneke, of which 279 were shipped to France (according to available information), a second order of 300 in the same 7X64 Brenneke was placed, but later cancelled. According to Ruger records, 240 units of that order remained in North America (USA distributors). I have owned four of these rifles, and have sold three. I listed them as "rare," with info provided to support that claim. I do not feel that using "rare" in those ads was in any way misleading. ALIMO.
 
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