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nuclearcricket
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Rifle Value
Dec 5th, 2011 at 1:54pm
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My son in law has asked me to see if I could find a value of his grandfather's .22 rifle. I would rate the condition as overall good or a little better. It is a Springfield 83. Manufactured by Stevens. It is a single shot, bolt action. You cock it by pulling back on the end of the bolt ( for lack of a better description or proper name). It has a stamped steel trigger guard and one large knurled screw to hold the action to the stock. The stock is plain wood with a finger grove on each side of the forearm. 
Sights are a bead front and single leaf rear. The receiver is drilled and taped with filler screws on the left side of the action. No s/n could be found on it.
Any help with establishing a value would be greatly appreciated.
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Sam
  
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Re: Rifle Value
Reply #1 - Dec 5th, 2011 at 8:59pm
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While these are not realy collectable guns, I have had several variations of them over the years and if the bore is good they all shoot very well. Drilled and tapped reciever sort of kills any possible collector value, but they are not realy collectable so no big problem and you could mount a period scope on it easily. Mounts and scopes for these are usualy not expensive. Value in my opinion is $100 to $150 in my opinion. They are solid accurate rifles. Good starter guns and plinkers.
  
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Re: Rifle Value
Reply #2 - Dec 6th, 2011 at 11:46am
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Thanks  slumlord, I didn't think that the value on it would be very high, and my guess is that when it was new it was just an average .22. 
The holes on the side of the receiver where it is drilled and taped look like they may have been factory done as there are filler screws in them. 
To me it doesn't make a lot of sense to have that work done and then not put a scope on it. 
But over all it is in nice shape and would make an excellent starter rifle for the grand kids. The cocking knob is large enough and not overly hard to work so there shouldn't be any problems with them cocking it.
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