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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
Steve, the buyer is in charge in any transaction. The better ones sell for more money. Repros are not too spendy once they have a little finish knocked off. Those are the ones to look for.
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In the Gun World, finding a nice, but beat up gun, is my favorite thing to do. Depending, sometimes I leave them 'as is' but it isn't too difficult to gussy them up and bring them back to "minty". Then you pay a little and get a lot. Yes, if one takes the gun to one of the smiths who give them a make over, it is expensive. I usually pay one of those craftsmen more money than I paid for the gun. That's why sometimes I leave them as they are when I buy one.
Being retired, I'm forced by income issues to leave lots of guns on the sales rack. I've passed up a few, but I have about a dozen nice old shotguns and I enjoy them. I'm not sure that I would enjoy the ones I have more by adding to the group, but I'll never get rid of any of them. We are married, those guns and I, and yes, my wife is jealous.
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