Gh 16 Ga O frame with 28 Ga Atlas barrels

[Pittypatdugan]

This gun sold on Gunbroker for $1723.00 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=139098725

Is the value that much for the original gun? or are the Atlas barrels in 28 that scarce?

PDD

[Dean Romig]

I would pay that price for the gun without the extra set of barrels. In my opinion they do nothing at all to the value of the gun. I'd have to think long and hard for a reason to even keep the Atlas barrels. Maybe somebody would give me a couple hundred bucks for them . . . or not

[Dave Miles]

I'd have to agree with Dean.
I would have bought the gun for that without the atlas barrels also.
However, I'm flat ass broke.

[Bill Murphy]

I'm sure someone here bought it. Who is it? Looks like a nice gun.

[Dollar Grade]

I also agree with Dave. If I wasn't also broke I would have placed a bid on it. These GH 0 frame 16's were being snapped up quickly a year ago at about $2500....Between restoration of the 5 frame lifter 10, a Savage 99 takedown in 22 savage hi-power and a Browning A-5 pre WWII 16 I am dead broke. With the economy what it is the prices on some guns that I have wanted for years are getting into a resonable $$ range. I have some snow goose windsocks for sale if anyone needs some...!!

[Pittypatdugan]

Thanks for some great answers. I suspected there was little value in the Atlas Barrels. Several years ago Asa Kelley was offered a DH or It May Have been a DHE Vent rib with Atlas Barrels 12Ga.. He looked at it as if someone had married a Ford with a Rolls Royce. He complemented the gun and told the man he just didn't know the value in a very polite way. It would have been a conversation piece and a shooter only.

PDD

[Double Play]

A few years ago a guy at our club had BH with a SG, real pretty wood and a SSBP for sale for $3,000.00. I passed because of the poor fitting Atlas barrels. I tried real hard to convince myself to buy that gun and even got prices for a set of 30" Vulcan barrels to fit to the gun. A couple of months later while watching the new owner shoot a round of skeet I began regretting my decision but the gun was no longer for sale. I guess it wasn't ment to be. The gun in the add posted here appears to be fairly priced only because of the original barrels.

[George Blair]

I agree the price is right if the bores are mirror bright....but look at the end of the barrels. What shows on my screen looks like pretty deep pitting. Maybe thats why the Atlas barrels. George

[Dean Romig]

The seller says the bores are "mirror bright, no dents, dings or pits" so we have to take him at his word and if he's wrong, we hope he will honor an inspection period . . . but I still think it is a good value at the price it went for.