Whats the best way to sell a precision rifle?

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I spent so much time and money putting together my DREAM rifle. It took so long that I lost interest in the ability to "reach out and touch somebody" LOL
I have my rifle up for sale, and would love to sell it as a package. The stuff was so hard to get ahold of. But I can also understand that not a lot of people have the capital to spend on a premium precision rifle. So what's the opinion or experience of people here on selling something like this? Sell it as a package? Or piece it out?

It's more of a general question. But if you want o know what I'm selling it's a Sako TRG42 338 Lapua with a Schmidt and Bender PMII 5-25x56. It's loaded with the best of what I could get my hands on. (Near MFG. And genuine Sako accessories)
 
You certainly have the best of everything there, but when you get into that price range often buyers are very particular about everything and want to accessorize to meet their needs and tastes. You will likely do better if you part it out, and often people want a deal on a package.
 
I sold my nearly new Savage 10BA in less than 2 hours on EE. Mind you, I priced it to sell quickly.
If you want max $$, part it out. Just weigh in the inconvenience of selling parts separately, including shipping them, and you may determine that losing a few hundred dollars isn't such a big deal.
 
Bracen said:
I spent so much time and money putting together my DREAM rifle. It took so long that I lost interest in the ability to "reach out and touch somebody" LOL
I have my rifle up for sale, and would love to sell it as a package. The stuff was so hard to get ahold of. But I can also understand that not a lot of people have the capital to spend on a premium precision rifle. So what's the opinion or experience of people here on selling something like this? Sell it as a package? Or piece it out?

It's more of a general question. But if you want o know what I'm selling it's a Sako TRG42 338 Lapua with a Schmidt and Bender PMII 5-25x56. It's loaded with the best of what I could get my hands on. (Near MFG. And genuine Sako accessories)
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Sako TRG's are easy to come by, so are TRG accessories except the folding stock. The Schmidt and Bender Scope is also easy to come by. Anyone who has the money sitting around can buy what you are selling and have it all in under a Week. The best way to sell your gun is to list it in EE with a package price and individual piece price. If someone buys it all great, but if guys are looking for individual parts sell them. In time it will all go. You have a nice gun with nice kit. Keep in mind, its not difficult to find Sako 338 TRG's phospahte models, on sale. You will have to take a loss.
 
I looked at your posting in the EE and that is a ton of cash. I would like to get into a 338LM, but not for that kind of cash. I might be willing to buy a TRG, but certainly wouldn't be putting a S&B on top.
 
With all due respect, I also looked at your EE post and considered it until I did the math. I then purchased the same rifle in green kitted out with the S&B/Near, the only thing you have that I don’t is the extra two magazines, monopod and I bought a pelican case as opposed to the Explorer. I bought all this new for considerably less than your most recent price drop…with the magazines and monopod it would have been closer to your asking price.

If you were local to me I would have hit you up with an offer as I would’ve had the opportunity to view before buying. Not to be insulting but the honest reality is, I don’t know you and you don’t know me…There would have to be allot of trust for me to send your asking price (EMT or otherwise) for an unseen rifle let alone one that I could buy new for the same dollar. I may have been willing to accept this risk if the price was more favorable.

Anyway, good luck with the sale, no offense was intended if portrayed and if you do decide to part it out I would be interested in the mag's.
 
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I wasn't looking for specific comments about what I have for sale. It was more a general question wheather to split up or package a high end precision shooter.
 
Bracen said:
I spent so much time and money putting together my DREAM rifle. It took so long that I lost interest in the ability to "reach out and touch somebody" LOL
I have my rifle up for sale, and would love to sell it as a package. The stuff was so hard to get ahold of. But I can also understand that not a lot of people have the capital to spend on a premium precision rifle. So what's the opinion or experience of people here on selling something like this? Sell it as a package? Or piece it out?

It's more of a general question. But if you want o know what I'm selling it's a Sako TRG42 338 Lapua with a Schmidt and Bender PMII 5-25x56. It's loaded with the best of what I could get my hands on. (Near MFG. And genuine Sako accessories)
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The responses you got, seem to be what you were asking for. People that were looking for similar rigs, like you have for sale, felt that it is or was over priced. Most people that provide answers or responses will insert their feelings or rationale......normal human behavior.
 
Keep the add running, sooner or later someone who is looking for that exact arrangement will come along. Place an add in the Access, or perhaps put it up for consignment with a well known gun dealer. A buyer will come along . . . eventually, but you will suffer a loss by the time you decide to let it go. Its a bitter pill to swallow, but that the way it goes.

It sounds to me like the purchase was perhaps not well considered in the first place; $11K+ represents a great deal of money to put out on a rifle you're not passionate about using. It took me a long time to get my target rifle built, ordering components from the States, then waiting for the gunsmith to do the assembly seemed to take forever. It too was a great deal of money, but the way I justify it to myself is that its a shooting laboratory that I will have it for the rest of my life, and a new barrel from time to time will keep performing. Most of my shooting is done with other rifles, and bear guns and their loads consume much of my attention. But long range shooting is nevertheless a passion, and in the spring when the weather becomes a little more tolerable, before the bears come in off the ice, that's my time to shift gears and reach out there. I suspect many folks in the south have dreams of shooting out to a mile, but then they face the reality that they have no time to get out to a place where its possible to do so. Hudson Bay is 200 yards from my front door, and when ice covered it becomes the world's largest and longest rifle range.

From my perspective, your best option is to hang onto that rifle, shoot it as opportunity permits, and learn to appreciate it. If it kicks too hard (which I suspect due to the fact that you put only 3 rounds through it) work up loads that are less energetic until you work up your tolerance to them, lighter loads makes it cheaper to feed as well.

Another option is to send it to a talented gunsmith who can turn it into a switch barrel, with two or three different bolt faces, as I recall the bolt heads on those rifles are interchangeable so the entire bolt doesn't need to be replaced when switching to a different cartridge family, allowing you to shoot a variety of cartridges with a simple barrel and bolt head swap. The cost of the conversion would be less than the hit you'll take selling the rifle, which protects your investment.
 
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