Smart buyers today look for the better Del Grego restorations, especially on smallbore guns. The self-explanatory benefit in these guns is that nothing more need to be done with them; they are ready to take out and shoot. Provided there are no cut barrels, botched triggers, and no one has cut all the choke out of them, they are now and always will be a bargain. I have sold a half-dozen or so and always made a modest profit on each of them; also made it a point to include Del Grego's letter with the documentation for the sale. It never disappointed anyone who bought one, so far as I can tell. When you look at today's prices for total restoration, a 30-40 year-old Del Grego gun is always a bargain; it hurts to look at the old letters and the individual charges quoted compared to today's estimates. My completely redone 12 ga. VHE including NEW ejector beavertail forend installed cost me $336 in 1969. Of course, gas was around 28 cents a gallon then!
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