Just spoke with the owner and it looks like I can own this gun if I come up and additional $450 to my offer, so $3000 is his lowest price he will take. He claims a large shotgun dealer has contacted him and has offered him a lot more than my offer but is willing to sell it to me for $3000.

Thoughts? I am leaning to making the deal. I really don't want to lose it over $450.

I told him I wanted to see it one more time, so I am going to meet him on Thursday.

If all goes as planned I'll be posting some pics Thursday afternoon.

Matt

I think that you will find several of us that said previously that $3,000 was a seemingly fair price for the gun. Not bad from the starting point of $4k.

I wouldn't believe when someone says that they are turning down a better buy to sell to you. If they have that good of an offer, they would take it. And besides, I can't see a dealer paying that much for the gun. Would not leave very much room for profit on his end.

I agree, the story was that Elmira Arms was going to be bring the gun to the Tulsa Show this weekend.

I just told the owner if he agrees to let me bring the gun to Larry DelGrego and having it looked at, that if all checks out, I will agree to his price and buy the gun. Still waiting for his reply.

Matt

Update,

I recieved the go-ahead to have DelGrego check the gun out for me. I hope to bring it to Ilion next week. If all goes well, I will own this gun. I'll report back next week with my findings from Larry.

Thanks to everyone for your help in my research on this gun.

Matt