shiloh505 wrote:Thanks to all of you for your responses. I sincerely appreciate the information. If anyone else wants to offer an opinion I'll sure listen. It is priced at 2,000 so from what I'm reading that may be a bit high if I understand your responses correctly? One said $1300 to $2000 another said $2000. I wouldn't want to part it out. I'm actually looking for a nice functional 1873 (original Winchester) in a caliber that will handle modern ammo but I may settle for this. Thanks again for all your help.
2k sounds fair to me --- perhaps on the high side of fair --- but if it was left to the Gunbroker clowns , they would want $3500 for an original 1886 TD ---- I am most assuredly not in the same league as 6Gun regarding familiarity with these vintage firearms , but 2k today may actually be worth 3500 - 5k in a few short years -- I have seen it happen with a couple of Colt Pythons I own. what was purchased for less than 1k apiece has now doubled since 2009
I will share another tale :
a friend of mine who is a vintage car collector -- not garden variety mustangs or Camaros, the guy likes the big money rides ---- a certain LAmbo Miura that was not that expensive (relatively speaking) at the time was on e-bay motors for 96,000 with a day or 2 left in the bidding. My friend contacted the owner and offered him $116,000 to end the auction early and the strategy worked --- This was 6 years ago. He was asked by others whether it occurred to him that he could have saved a few thou by riding the auction out and the reply was -- "its off the market, its mine, and i'm happy" ---- today the car is worth roughly 350k --------- people always say junk like "its only worth what someone will pay for it" - and that is applicable in a lot of areas in life, but not necessarily in vintage cars or vintage lever guns
---- that 2k for that rifle may turn into the best 2k you ever spent -- but unlike the high dollar vintage car you are afraid to drive, you can shoot a rifle like that every day