Yard sale buy of the YEAR!!!!
 

bought a parker 410 today at a local yard sale Go figure???? You just never know what your going to find. Man said it was granpops and he doesn't like guns but it was to nice to destroy. I won't even tell you what I paid for it.

Year? Try Lifetime.
Pictures now please

April 1st was a week ago!!!

Now that is "The stuff that dreams are made of".

Congratulations!!

What a find Al! Way to go. What grade?

I've heard about men who don't like guns but personally I find that to be an oxymoron.

I want to send you a PM, but I'll wait until all the usual suspects get to you first. This isn't as bad as the "Other" shotgun collectors website, but you will get PMs, probably as many from the other guys as from us. Why don't you send me a PM? Then I can say I didn't jump in this one. By the way, congratulations.

Very good for you whod a thought. Bought dreams Dean dreams for me are a certain ball grip C but hey.

Don't tell me, it was sitting in an umbrella boot made from an elephants foot with a bunch of fishing poles and wooden yardsticks.

In the heyday quail years here years ago a man advertised an Ithaca 37 - 20 ga. .I went to look and he had 6 guns total to get rid of. Plus cases and shells. Couldn't agree on total gun price so went home to get check for the 20. When I got back he had decided to sell me everything at my price. Really a 410 at a garage sale. Congrats

Alan: that is amazing.The first chance you get go by a lottery ticket even though you already won.Thomas

it's a V grade with 28 inch barrels. I had to go to NJ to help my brother but I will post pic's when I return. It still has some case colors and bores are perfect locks up thight and is on face. He wanted so little for it I didn't know what to do so I asked him if he was sure on the price and he said he just wanted it to go to a good home. Asked him if he had any other guns said no that this was grandpop's barn rat gun ??? I always used a piece of junk 22 with bird shot for my rat guns. He did throw in 2 boxes of peters 2 inch 8 shot 410 shells nice boxes both full. I guess that is barn rat ammo?? I will have to remember to mark it just for barn rats!!! Thomas I bought lottery ticks the other day somebody else got my money!!

the only thing I ever see at garage sales are old worn out kids toys and baby stuff. too cool man!!

Being full, those boxes of cartridges are certainly worth something, especially the 2" variety. A good day for you, indeed!

Congratulations. Looking forward to pictures.

Here is another way to look at this, Bad day for the seller. Gerald.

I once bought a Martin D-12-20 guitar at the Goodwill for $20, but a Parker .410 tops that!

Some people have all the luck. It is inspiring that this stuff is still out there and the hunt is alot of fun anyways.

Sometimes I think it's all about the hunt!

Having a Parker .410 at home in the safe beats the hunt any day. I have told my Parker .410 skeet gun story on this forum so it doesn't need to be told here again. Anyhow, Allen's story if better than mine.

Bill - you have over 5,000 posts. How would we find the story of your .410?

I think there quite a few people (myself included) who can't wait to see pictures of this fantastic find.:corn:

How many of us are going to start going to yard sales now?

Down our way, the only think we're likely to find is a beat up lobster pot!

I have often joked with my wife when passing yard sales that I was going to stop and ask...got any guns?

I may start doing just that.

I will say that whenever I go to yard sales or estate sales, I at least ask if they have any guns for sale. Hoping that maybe they just didn't put them out.

I went to a yard sale in Augusta Maine about 7 or 8 years ago where the family of a deceased gentleman had a lot of his useless old stuff they didn't want or need spread out over about a dozen 8 foot banquet tables. Kathy and I went from table to table not really seeing anything we thought particularly interesting - just the usual "old guy's stuff" - until we were heading back to the car and passed by the first table we had briefly looked at earlier and I put on the brakes so hard Kathy walked right into me. There on the table was a very early Colt 1911, probably made in the teens, in nice condition with only very minor loss of blueing. The tag said $50 but I had no interest in semi-auto pistols and had no idea of their value so I passed on it. But right there on the same table was a Colt .45 revolver. This one had my interest because it also had a $50 tag on it. Turns out the revolver had a good amount of rust (or maybe dust?) in the barrel so I passed on it too.
It was only a couple of weeks later that discovered the value of that 1911..... I could have slit my wrists... :eek:

A WWII test pilot friend of mine here took me into his gargage before he passed away and opened a locked steel box sitting on a damp cold concrete floor in a corner. Inside was a 1918 vintage 1911 in the original leather holster on a Sam Brown belt. Pistol was in near new condition and well oiled. After he died they had an auction and they sold that box for $50, not knowing what was in it. I was sick that I never asked Randy if I could buy that Colt from him; he likely would have just given it to me.

At an estate sale awhile back I bought literally a bag of clips for about 10 different pistols and rifles. I asked the lady running the sale where the guns were and she said they don't handle guns and had told the family they had to sell them by themselves. Bet whoever bought them wondered why non had clips.....

DLH

I believe most people are just plain afraid to put guns out in a garage or small estate sale. When I stop I always look for hunting/fishing related gear and if I get the feeling the deceased was a sportsman I ask whom ever is running the sale about guns and/or rods. Often there are and usually they don't know what to do with them. Haven't stumbled onto anything of value but I have seen more than a few rusty turds.

I imagine anyone with enough $ to own a small-bore or high-grade gun would have a substantial enough estate as to not have it in thr driveway. Regardless, thr hunt is half the fun and you never know when you'll get lucky.

Might be less about the value of the estate compared to how the beneficiaries value the estate.

are there any pictures of the gun posted yet I have been waiting, if I cant see it soon I will hold my breath till I turn blue

Pictures, and price paid would make it an even better story.

Not sure I want to see pictures or know the price.

Has anyone ever paid more than $100 for anything at a garage sale?

Yes...

I bought a wooden bottom Luger magazine at an estate sale it was marked .50 cents, I got it for .25 cents! The sale ran for a whole day before I got there and everything was half price!

No pics! Probably means high level negotiations going on for the sale of this gun. Maybe while we're waiting Bill could link us to his post of how he acquired his 410 he referenced earlier.

sorry guys I am out of town with limited computer use. I will tell you this if I get one more nasty message I am going to ask to have this thread locked. I paid the man what he was asking and it was more than $100. I would have hoped you guys would be happy for me with a great find but it appears some are not I am sorry you feel that way but I am sure given the same chance you would have purchased the gun yourself. I always thought this site had a bunch of guys with a lot of class but for some it appears I was wrong. I will post a picture as soon as I return home next week . I tried to get my wife to take a picture and email it to me so I could post it but it came out about 1 inch tall and 2 inches long???? I have no idea how she did that but I give her an A for trying

Sorry Alan but there is jeliousy (if i use spell check does that make me a better person;)) and honestly this sight is not as fun as it used to be because of thoes people. best to you Alan. ch