Value of a 4-digit Winchester Model 1907?

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Hello folks, I've just been given my great-grandfathers old Winchester 1907. I was very surprised to find it has a 4-digit serial number. I typed it in to a site I found on the net and it apparently was made in 1907! It is chambered in .351SL of course, and the fore stock is cracked. Also the rifling looks pretty wore down, but the bore shows no signs of pitting and the bluing is in great shape. I don't have pictures yet, any idea ballpark what this is worth?

It also has 2 magazines and about 60 rounds of ammo (western super-x and dominion). I'm not sure what those are worth either, but I know they don't make em anymore!

Thanks for your help guys!

PS - I have no intentions of selling any of this stuff, the sentimental value is far more important to me than dollars and cents, I just find it interesting to see what stuff like this is worth. And yes I know that these rifle and that chambering are both obsolete and both were very popular back in the day, so I'm not expecting it to worth much. I was just curious if it would be worth more seeing as it was the first year of manufacture and that it is in overall decent shape for its age.
 
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These rifles seldom bring more than about $500.00 or so. The fact you have 60 rounds of ammo is great; ammo is pricey.
It sounds odd to me that everything looks in good shape but the rifling appears worn....have you fired it?

And no, these rifles, although sales managed to keep them in production for 50 years, were never that popular. I wouldn't call them rare, but they are certainly uncommon.

I shot my first deer near Kenora with my dad's .351 SL; he bought it used from a gunsmith in Sudbury for $40.00 in 1960 or 1961.
 
I haven't fired it yet, and I high doubt that I will. It's more of an "heirloom" piece that means too much to me to risk firing it.

When I say the rifling looks worn down, I mean it doesn't seem very deep in the metal. But I have never seen another one to compare, so this could be par for the course with these rifles. I would be able to tell more once I run some patches through it and clean it up a bit. But from the sounds of it, both my great-grandfather and my grandfather shot many, many, many, animals with it. So this is what makes me lean toward the rifling being shot out.

It is actually quite impressive how many moose and deer fell to this rifle and such a small chambering! But then again, most of these shots were taken at under 100 yards.

Thanks again!

Bill
 
The Winchester semi-autos have never commanded big prices. Your rifle would bring $400 tops in my area regardless of condition. The cracked forend is VERY common with 1907 and 1910(.401 Winchester). They are nice old rifles but never seem to generate much interest amongst Winchester guys. Personally if it were my grandfathers I would keep it and hunt with it once in a while.
 
I'd say about $300. There are no pics, but I assume that yours is "Standard" model, and the cracked forend and worn bore go against it. The extra mag might fetch $50. The ammo's worth about $1/round.
 
$400 in good shape, less in the condition you describe...I have one in good shape that I hunt with and another in VG shape that I payed right around $400 for....Also have a Model 1910 that looks hardly handled, that I payed a bit more for, because they are much harder to come by, and I wanted one..
 
Potshot21: you already have the photo but without the caption . . .

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Andy said:
I'd say about $300. There are no pics, but I assume that yours is "Standard" model, and the cracked forend and worn bore go against it. The extra mag might fetch $50. The ammo's worth about $1/round.
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The ammo goes for about $2 a round at gunshows as of 3 years ago when I knuckled under to buy an original for case dimensions. Luckily I'm sitting on 150 original 'in the box' rounds and 200 factory bullets with a few hundred NEW brass! Sad thing is that its all too valuable to shoot and have fun with. I'll just keep making ammo from used .223 cases.
 
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