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LynnF
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Opportunities Lost
Jul 13th, 2010 at 11:35pm
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After reading another post questioning whether or not to pay a little more for a rifle, I thought about an old Jackson Arms catalog I've had for many years. This is the first of several pages of ss rifles. I should have sold everything and bought rifles.
  
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Reply #1 - Jul 14th, 2010 at 7:00am
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    Thank you sir for that posting.  It was the perfect reminder for me with which to start my day.

   I would just like to add, if you will permit me, that as long as we do the best we can with what we have at the time, that should be good enough.
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Reply #2 - Jul 14th, 2010 at 10:31am
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ah me!

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Reply #3 - Jul 14th, 2010 at 11:50am
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I bought #109, my first Pope!
  
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Reply #4 - Jul 14th, 2010 at 8:12pm
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What is the date on the catalog? Missed and passed on some that I wish I had bought now. Makes me think that possibly I did not pay too much for  the Stevens 418 I just bought and am hoping to be delivered tomorrow. Most of the guns I thought I paid too much for at the time, I no longer feel that way. Would like to buy the guns in that catalog today for those prices!
  
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Reply #5 - Jul 14th, 2010 at 9:17pm
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I think the catalog is about 1962. The rifle 109 that Terry bought was priced $250.00. Those were times we will never see again. The original rifle you see today that seems a little overpriced may not be available tomorrow at any price, so if you want it, buy it and don't look back.
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Reply #6 - Jul 15th, 2010 at 3:21pm
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Yes sir,

Best to buy it now if you can before the paper in your wallet deflates in value even further!  Grin
  
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Reply #7 - Jul 15th, 2010 at 7:51pm
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You have to remember that $250 was a lot of money in '62. For me it was about 3 weeks pay and for my dad about 1 1/2 weeks pay. Still a unbeleavable price (for the number of weeks pay) for a Pope in todays market. A good friend payed $4500 for a Pope Wincester High Wall  about 16 years ago, a beautiful gun. At that time it was 7.5 weeks, machinist pay in my area and still a not that bad a price. In the same year he also bought a original Helms. I only wish that i could have afforded either.

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Reply #8 - Jul 16th, 2010 at 7:56am
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     Frank;

          To put this in perspective, I have an original 1964 edition of the Lyman Company Reloading Handbook ( 43 Rd. edition ) which contains some advertising material towards the end pages which describes the Lyman Super Targetspot scope, and the advertised price was then $125. less case, or $134. with the case.

          So that was 1/2 the price that Terry paid for his rifle purchase.

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Reply #9 - Jul 16th, 2010 at 6:43pm
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Wellllll...

You could buy my WA Sukalle Borchardt and not have to think about missing this boat.

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Reply #10 - Jul 16th, 2010 at 10:32pm
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Terry, Did you finish your Borchardt?     ...MIKE...
  
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Reply #11 - Jul 17th, 2010 at 1:54pm
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  I bought #109, my first Pope!


Terry;

And,.   .   .   ., I hope you've enjoyed having it.   May I ask, would you happen to still possess it ?   

Nice rifles such as the one we are discussing are often difficult to dispose of from an attachment and fondness point of view.  I know I have gotten attachment anxiety when disposing of unique rifles in the past.

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Reply #12 - Jul 17th, 2010 at 11:53pm
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Unfortunately, I do not still own that rifle.  I sold it to a friend circa 1970 when we were buying a larger house to accommodate two sons born after the rifle purchase.  I do have a number of Pope rifles, however, including a couple of similar Ballards in .22.

I'm not sure which Borchardt project we're talking about - one is still with John Mitchell getting a Pope .22 barrel installed to reverse a varmint cartridge conversion in which they left the schuetzen wood- maybe they did not have a lead bullet rule when it was put together.  Another with Peterson barrel in .32-40 needs new wood.  A schuetzen Zischang .32-40 needs metal finish.  Schoyen muzzle loader and Zischang sporter need nothing.  I just bought a Darrow built varmint rifle which I hope needs nothing.
  
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Reply #13 - Jul 23rd, 2010 at 11:38am
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You have to remember that $250 was a lot of money in '62.


To be exact...$250 in 1962 would be the same as $1,806.11 in 2010
factoring inflation.   (So I'm an engineer and can do cost analysis over time).

I still kick my self for not buying a ballard at the N-SSA nationals.  The price was low, and I really liked it.  It had just been set out for sale.   I walked away thinking I'll pick it up later.

I went back 10 minutes later and it was gone.  I should have bought it right then and not waited.

I got a great Ballard years later but I paid a lot more for it then the first one that got away.

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Reply #14 - Jul 23rd, 2010 at 2:38pm
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I never worried about paying to much for a rifle. Both of my X wives did however.  X wives   Smiley 


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