Should of offered him 5 $ more !

It was a crazy deal, he contacted me through a reference, said it had been for sale with no luck at his local club for a year, we agreed on price and the next day he backs out. Ah well!

Not saying this is the case, but I have more then once had an agreement on a gun and the deal done and then received a phone call or email saying that the gun was no longer for sale. I surmise in both cases that someone called after me and offered more and the seller decided to go for a bigger dollar amount.

Like I tried to tell you, these 20 gauge AEs are doing really good now, oh well !

Bill

Picked up a nice little 16ga A 5-12lbs 28" bbls with perfect screws and nice original finish with a bit of finish added to the forend for $3100. this week. Not an 20AE but in the same zip code. My estimate for the 20 AE the original topic was a little low but small bore Fox A's are out there for less than 4k in my opinion. To bad the deal for the 20 fell apart. Craig

There are a couple problems with waiting for a Fox AE 20 gauge under $4000 though. No. 1, where do you look and and how many years do you want to wait in searching for that price? And second, if they are that low, how many buyers will beat you to the purchase? :cuss:

Bill

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I've learned the hard way that nothing replaces stepping up with extra cash when a good gun is on the line, especially if they're under priced to begin with.

Sounds very much to me like the "jungle telegraph" may have done you in on this deal - similar to a "loose lips sink ships" type of deal, if you know what I mean.

I lost a screaming GHE Parker 16 ga. 32" gun about 15 years ago when, after I had made the seller a bona fide cash offer of $7500 and arranged a meeting place convenient to both of us. Three days later, the day before we agreed to meet, he called me up and said that after "consulting some Parker gun experts", he felt the true value of the gun was $10,500 and that was what he would accept, cash money only.

I told him that if they were the same Parker gun experts that had called me up fishing for a value on a gun they were "looking to buy", that they could all enjoy their $8000 gun together.

Same thing in reverse happened when I tried to buy a great 12 ga. 32" XE Fox; offered the buyer his stated price cash as we spoke (way north of $10K) after he told me the gun was not for sale, but "may be in a couple or three years." Three years shrunk into 3 months after the seller experienced a "downturn in personal finances" shortly thereafter, winding up virtually giving the gun away. By that time, I had found a better gun. 'Caveat venditor"!

Nice gun Craig I hope you bring it to hausmanns. There are a couple of nice small bore Fox's on Guns International right now.

Craig, I have a Fox A 16 also, and will bring to Ernies. It is a delite to carry and shoot. I picked up a Fox A 20 last fall and have not really shot it except for one day in the grouse woods last year where I blooded it. It is not pristine, but then again I did not pay top dollar for it. It has 26' cyl/cyl tubes and factory card showing that is how it was ordered. A delightful little grouse/quail gun for sure. I'll bring it also.