Bill, I'll bet $4k or more at least

There's plenty of them that have earned the soul you're referring to. Now that we're thirty-some-odd years past production of these wonderful guns. There's fewer & fewer of the ones that someone had the foresight to stash away and preserve as NIB unfired.

Collectors come in all forms and in some circles the most highly sought after guns which bring the highest prices are the ones in the highest original condition. Like I stated before--These are only a virgin once!

Out of curiosity: What do you think a repro like this one in its NIB condition might be worth in another thirty years, if it's kept pristine? I can assure you it would be much less if it had been used hard in that time frame!

Thirty years value increase is greatly dictated by the value of the dollar at that time…





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I agree with you 100%. I am only being a bit facetious -- maybe a lot! :cheers:

I would love to keep my double trigger Repros in unfired condition, but they are very tempting (to shoot). I took a double trigger 28 two barrel set for a round of skeet when it was new. At the end of the round, I could tell it had been shot. The finish on the receiver had faded on the corners. I give up.

$1 invested in the S & P 500 30 years ago, through 2/28/25, grew to $20.55, an annual return of 10.62% annually, with dividends reinvested. That’s despite 2 sizable bear markets (4/2000-3/2003, and 10/07-3/09), as well as many other corrections well in excess of 10%, such as 2022, down 20%. Had I bot a gun in ‘95 that I worried about from an investment perspective, and wrestled over shooting it or not, maybe investing $1,000 in SPY and letting the equity market do its thing would be a decent alternative. Over its 60 year history, Berkshire Hathaway has trounced the return of SPY, I bet these last 30 years were ok for Mr Buffet’s outfit. 1 share of the class A shares is worth about $800,000 currently…looks like it was about $22,700 30 years ago…about 35x….vs SPY doing about 20x. So, $1000 in BRK would be worth about $35,000 today. $500 in each would be worth about $28,000 today, if diversification is your thing. I don’t have any collector-type guns, but what I have I shoot, believing that they’re not my workhorse investments. Only speaking for my guns…there may be guns out there that perform on par with our equity market.

Bill Murphy and I had a Parker 28 ga. display at the Old Baltimore Show in March of 2001 wherein we displayed the very best Remington era Runge-engraved BHE 28 ga I've ever seen; all options including VR. A colloquium of 5 experienced Parker collectors estimated its fair market value at $32,500 retail and $28,500 wholesale on the given market at that time. The gun sold for $126,00 at Guyette & Deeter's February 2023 auction. I still think about that gun!

I have that same gun with the same chokes but with 26" barrels. I'd say its had a few boxes of shells put through it. Those chokes and having double triggers make it quite hard to find. Took me about 5 year of looking to find it and it wasn't cheap to buy it for sure. I think this gun went for market value with it being NIB with that barrel length.

How common was it,on two bbl. sets 26&28" for both sets to be Q1&Q2 ?

Garry, I had a repro 20 ga. two barrel set choked like that.
Straight grip, single trigger, BTFE 26" & 28" both choked Q1 & Q2





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