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[ArtS]

When i was in my 20's and 30's, I always wanted one. In my mind they were the most legendery competition gun in the history of sports, and competed for 60 or 70 years. I can remember in the 70's when modern SBT's started showing up, there were always a bunch of guys in their 60's and older at all the trap fields who were buying every one that became available, and the younger guys were glad to let them go cheap to finance their new guns. They dried up over a few years, and I suspect that there were a few guys who had some incredible stashes of them. I think that the families of those guys are moving a lot of them out over a short period and the prices are really reasonable.

The only one I owned until recently was a really nice looking Victory model that I picked up cheap in the early 80's. I shot it wonderfully, but only hit when the shell went off. The entire firing pin train was worn out, even though the rest of the gun looked perfect. The tip of the pin was worn short and flat, the spring was shot and the hole for the pin was worn too large due to the angled firing pin so that the pin would jam. I finally made a pin and a workable spring, but the only solution I could see for the hole was to bush it, and the angle made me give up on it.

When you have to pick...
I beg you to get a Knick.....
Not the sh#% on stick!

(Pardon my haiku.)

[J. A. EARLY]

Gary,

Cabelas used to have a policy that they would ship the gun to another Cabelas near you for $25 or $50, which I can't remember. I imagine they still do. Then you can look at it there before anyone else with no obligation to buy.

[ArtS]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

Gary,

Cabelas used to have a policy that they would ship the gun to another Cabelas near you for $25 or $50, which I can't remember. I imagine they still do. Then you can look at it there before anyone else with no obligation to buy.

You can ask, but the last time I tried I found that a lot of the individual stores have opted out of that plan on specific guns. It appeared to be a somewhat voluntary thing depending on the manager.

I also found that at my local store a couple of miles from my house they kept quite a few used guns in the back. They no longer have a gun library, and keep these in the back on an "asked for" basis, even though they are not advertised in the Cabela's inventory.