Winchester 1873 40-82

[Short Knife Johnson]

anybody else I forgot? You paint a pretty broad stroke with your brush

Real Estate Agents...

There's nothing wrong with using a nice big brush to apply broad strokes with. In my experience though, I like to rent a sprayer. Things go much faster, saves you precious time, and does a much nicer job.

 

[DANCESWITHEMPTIES]

Here you go, guys. This should put it in perspective - this is what the big boys are spending:

www.thewinchestergrove.com

Pretty sad that the Winchester market up here is pretty anemic. Other sites such as gunbroker, basspro, and Cabelas have similar "for sale" ads. Yeah, I know, this is the top end and maybe a little too pricey but I've found that when you're buying up here that's what EVERYBODY quotes as the going rate. I recently sold about 75 Winchesters, by no means were any of them museum quality, but the hassles I had locally does take some of the fun out of it.

I'm taking a guess here, but how many serious Winchester collectors are there up here? A dozen? Maybe two? There maybe a few homesteader families that have a valuable piece, but only in the U.S. A gun that will fetch a couple of thousand up here maybe enough to retire on down there... Market there is always high & always will be. Some guy thinking he going to make a mint up here, for the most part is dreaming.

 

[BUSHMAN79]

Find out what cal. it is because bullets can be hard to come by. If it is a ,44 40 great. I own a .44 40 model 94 and can find .44 40 bullets but have to look sometimes. If you what this gun to look at and not shoot much cal. is not important.

Must be nice. I haven't seen a box of .44-40 locally in 10 years or more! But I took up reloading about the same time, so it doesn't really matter now.