Schuetzendave wrote on Mar 10
th, 2008 at 11:25pm:
... those 1885s that are no longer a collector's piece.
Now there's a phrase that a couple of the gun show dealers in my area need to have branded on their foreheads!
The last show I was at had a total of 3 1885's. One was a nicely put together long range style BPCR gun that was reputed to shoot well indeed, priced at around $2600 IIRC, and the other two were "original" and "collectible" 38-55 Sporter looking guns that were priced at $2500 each, thank you very much. Wow!
Bores like sewer pipes, extractors that looked like "the boy" cut the notch for them with his splitting wedge and the largest hammer he could swing, and general condition that made one wonder if they had been towed there behind a truck, rather than in it.
Are those collectible anywhere? I know I'd be ashamed to show them to anyone, without provenance, like maybe that they were dug up out of Custers outhouse site, or something like that...
Sorry. I'll stop ranting now.
That phrase got me going...
Cheers
Trev