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kgb
PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:33 pm  Reply with quote
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Especially to a dealer? Vintage Firearms, Inc. has the lead on this beautiful 870, and I cannot see anything other than condition and a pretty piece of wood to explain the cost. Is it some variety of higher grade that is not readily apparent to this non-collector?



https://www.gunbroker.com/item/921498798

Edited, I thought it was a completed auction.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:41 pm  Reply with quote



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Wow, nice looking gun, with I believe the impressed fake checkering. I don’t know why it’s worth $1000 more or less.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:19 pm  Reply with quote
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Wing Master, vent rib, IC choke, good wood

Someone's lost childhood, perhaps

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:06 pm  Reply with quote



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The suggested retail price in 1968 was $129.95 so you could have probably bought it new for $100.

The seller says it is a 1968 gun, but that is the year the penny counters discovered they could save money by replacing an inch of walnut with a recoil pad. That pattern impressed grip decoration (hard to call it checkering!!) first appears on the Model 870 in the 1965 catalog.

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It wouldn't be...

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:47 am  Reply with quote
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See if it sells
if it does its worth 3400 to someone
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RLR390
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Because it was originally owned by John Wayne?!
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Savage16
PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:15 am  Reply with quote
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Thats awful nice wood, even for a special grade, much less a field grade. Current high bidder has a 462A+ rating so maybe he knows something we dont???

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All I can figure is vintage firearms inc. must have buyer for it.

Crazy !
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Dave in Maine
PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:38 pm  Reply with quote



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39 bids so far. Someone wants it, badly. Actually, at least 2 someones.

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IC is very rare. I know, because I have been looking for years for this exact gun.
I settled for a fixed mod instead, right from this site for less than $800. I want it, but there is no way I am paying that much.
There seems to be two serious bidders.
Maybe I should auction mine?

Jim
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MSM2019
PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 7:17 am  Reply with quote



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Why would a 16ga 870 be worth $3430?



PT Barnum explains this best:

"There's a sucker born every minute"

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Swampy16
PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 7:41 pm  Reply with quote



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Pump guns, especially 870’s and some 37’s are very hot right now. Hey, we all know they’re great guns. It’s too bad the general public is finally figuring that out. A 37 Ultra 16 just sold for $1800 or so on GB. 😉
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"Why would a.....?" Same reason a sheet of plywood would sell for $80-90. Could be a jack@$$ bidder as well, the Mako23 I purchased off ebay several years ago was bid up to well north of $14k for a boat that wasn't worth more than $2k. Luckily the owner and I came to an agreement during the show and watched in amazement as the JA got his jollies wasting everyone's time.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:41 pm  Reply with quote



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jim18611865 wrote:
IC is very rare. I know, because I have been looking for years for this exact gun.
I settled for a fixed mod instead, right from this site for less than $800. I want it, but there is no way I am paying that much.
There seems to be two serious bidders.
Maybe I should auction mine?

Jim


Why not just buy one and open the chokes. Pretty simple to get what you want.

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