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Post by painter on May 4, 2016 20:33:30 GMT -5
Actually, I've spent significant time (other than hunting) in the south, but OK, OK....this thread is threatening to devolve into unnecessary vitriol. You're right, you're right about everything. Is it inappropriate to lol?
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Post by colonel3006 on May 5, 2016 0:14:06 GMT -5
Actually, I've spent significant time (other than hunting) in the south, but OK, OK....this thread is threatening to devolve into unnecessary vitriol. You're right, you're right about everything. Is it inappropriate to lol? I hope not cause I did.
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Post by ragnar on May 10, 2016 9:54:43 GMT -5
Quote: "My old L.C. Smith double sure looked like a beater compared to the Parker, Ithaca, Fox Sterlingworth, Purdey and Jeffries, plus a few Spanish and Italian brands. We estimated (and this was 30 years ago) that there was well over $75K of shotguns on one wall. And that was just the side-by-sides."
You know, now that you boys have jogged my memory and I think about it, I walk into various friends houses or hunting camps all across the country and see $75,000 dollars worth of shotguns on one wall. It happens all the time. lol.
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Post by martyred on May 13, 2016 14:47:33 GMT -5
Out here a decent 24 in 22mag/410 cost me 4 bills, I just don't care for the new guns I guess. The older ones seem to feel better, handle better, and shoot better. I did see similar one sell at a local gun show for over 6 and a pawn shop for over 7? Now when I do see a decent one for reasonable, I feel compelled to buy it.
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Post by littleguns on May 13, 2016 16:23:50 GMT -5
Now when I do see a decent one for reasonable, I feel compelled to buy it. Uhhh .... yeah, that does happen. How many more Tenite .22-.410s do I need? I don't know, because I can't guess how many bargains will still come along.
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Post by oldnavychief on May 15, 2016 0:23:30 GMT -5
Gentleman,
Let's remember that we all love Savage Model 24s and appreciate these and other fine guns. Let's return to the guns and leave who insulted who first aside.
Yep, the prices of these classic combo guns is going up. We all know why, right? Old men like me want to sit under a tree with a gun they had or wanted when they were a kid and didn't get one. Also, these guns were well made with some very pretty wood. Lastly, more people want to own one than there are guns of this type and age available.
I picked up a nice 22/410, believe made in 1966, for $650 a year ago. I watched the market for several months. I finally bought what I considered peak price, cause I finally wanted one now, not a year, or two years later. I never regretted it as it wan't bought to be an investment. It was bought to enjoy looking at it and using it lightly to appreciate another time. It has beautiful wood and it's a welded/brazed barrel gun where the 22 and 410. Rifle and shotgun barrels are well regulated (very near same point of aim).
I also like that the old classic Savage can be broken down into a small carrying case. The new ones break to a 45 degree angle. So it's shorter, but a 45 degree angle then makes it wider to stow. Truly an oxymoron. Synthetic stock is cheaper to make and shows it. Practical for what it is? Perhaps, but I'd say pay up for a nice old classic.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2016 8:28:48 GMT -5
I found my first Savage 24, an S-E model, as a pretty young and naïve dude in 2003, in a town called Friendship Indiana. It's about an hour or so from Cincinnati. I paid 175$ for it-but I got taken for a ride. It turned out to have light strike issues that took me 8 years, a hundred dollars, many hours and some valuable sanity to rig a fix, before selling it with full disclosure. Friendship isn't much of a town really, a tiny cluster of pretty little farm houses, situated amongst many large farms in a beautiful little valley right along side a feeder creek for the OH river. Twice a year, Friendship hosts a National Muzzle Loading Rifle Event which is also called "Friendship". Friendship, the event, is a NMRA shooting competition, party, campground, swimming hole, fishing spot and pop up flea market with booths that sell a bunch of very cool, very relevant items - guns, knives, leather, cool old tyme stuff, etc. It's an awesome ton of Redneck fun. Anyway, Since then I haven't seen another savage 24 anywhere near Southeast Ohio that I didn't bring there myself, including gun shops, pawn shops, friends or word of mouth. I declare however, that if you are diligent, and if you are persistent and if you can be disciplined, you will find good deals on theses guns and barrels and you can even find them right out in the open. They aren't just in some East Kentucky Country store, handed down by someone's favorite old uncle, or found in some freakish incidental yard sale by a little old lady. Great deals on 24's are even on the web and maybe even through a new gun buddy on this very site. All subsequent 24's to that first disastrous S-E that I've owned have come only from internet auctions or from trades and deals through connections on this Savage 24 site. I began to look for a 30/30 20 in 2008 and I caught a near financially fatal dose of the 24 bug after that. To illustrate what I mean, Here's a list of what I've paid and when, for guns in good to excellent condition: Out of 3 rimfire models the Max paid was 380$ in 2010 for an H-DL 22mag/20 in Good. 399$ 24VB 30/30-20 in good in 2009. 475$ 24VD 222/20 excellent 2012. $625 24VD 357Mag/20 2012-LNIB. 415$ F/12-T in 223/12 near excellent 2014. 300$ Barrel only 24VD 223/20 excellent 2015, *300$ Barrel Only 24VD 357MAXIMUM/20 Excellent(*plus 50$ original site replacement)-2016. I've sold them all except for two V models and two extra barrels. I always sell one to pay for the next one and generally make real sure I'm trading up or breaking even. I've come to accept that I can't have them all, but I'm hoping maybe if I do things the way I've been doing them, I can try em all out, and keep my favorite one or two.
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Post by wilbuc on May 17, 2016 19:39:17 GMT -5
I sometimes wonder when people post low prices they have paid for their guns that such posting might negatively affect gun prices. I remember a nice over/under I once owned that was worth every bit of $1200. The ffl gun buyer wanted to pay less than half that, citing a posting he had read on line where some guy claimed he had bought one new for around $700. using a combination of cash, coupons, and gift certificates. Any potential buyer of a 24 should note the year a gun was bought, as well as recognize that some people getting bargins are knowledgeable folks that have been on the lookout for quite a while.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2016 10:45:27 GMT -5
I like to think things are worth what people are willing to pay. And I generally argue that point from that perspective. But Then again, Take this gun for example: www.gunsamerica.com/Search.aspx?T=357 Maximum . Same gun was on the GunBroker and someone had bid it all the way up to $1400+ and it still didn't sell several days ago. Wasn't even the deluxe model with the white spacers and the checkering. In this case, just because someone was fool enough to offer that much money doesn't mean the gun is worth it, it just mean the seller has found a damn fool who wants his gun that bad? Or maybe the seller bid it up himself? I bought a V-D 357 Max barrel for $300(+50 replace original sights) in EXCELLENT condition earlier this year, 2016. I didn't look for it for 10 years before I found it either. I started considering drilling my Like new 357Mag/20 around ~December and then had a change of heart. So I started looking for the Max barrel and I found that deal in a matter of 2-3weeks while I was still considering. never even left my house, found it on gun broker. That's not a coincidence. A couple of my good deals were found right after I started looking and a couple just pop up that I wasn't necessarily looking for at all but I just couldn't pass up. But for $1400? ?.......You can buy a Like New 30-30 or 222 Deluxe VD for $5-600 ANY given day, on ANY given auction site, and with just a minimal amount of patients, you can snag a Max barrel for much less and have twice the combo. I saw 22Hornet barrel go for $400 and a Max barrel go $450 both in the summer of 2015. Matter of fact, a guy on this sight start an auction out at $1400 for a Stock/F.A./Receiver, with barrels-22 Hornet,222, 223,30-30 in 2015. It Didn't even sell at that price! By the way that particular seller seems to have an endless connection to 24's and always has them priced ludicrously high. He always seems to have a half to a dozen priced at 1.5-2X what I estimate the value at. Then again.......If fools are paying.......Is it possible for one dude to monopolize a used gun market and drive up the prices? Although, I highly doubt it, I hope posting my low prices drives them all the way the heck down if they truly are that far up. I care a lot more about people who like to buy 24's, trade 24's and make memories and tell stories about 24's than I do about people who want to collect em up and then gouge the piss out of all my Savage 24 co-enthusiasts. I won't argue that prices are going up on 24's, but I must say they are going up at different rates for different people, those most affected are those with more dollars than sense, more money that patience, and the ignorant.
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Post by vancmike on Jun 11, 2016 17:27:43 GMT -5
That's interesting....your link, if it still shows the same Mdl 24s, shows two 357Max/20, priced way too high, the other just high, both from teeny, teeny towns here in the NW, one in Idaho, the other in Oregon, both located in drop-dead gorgeous country. And both locals, in IMHO, not unsuited, but neither are they terribly well-suited for Mdl 24s. Pull up some Google earth maps and you'll see how wide open most of the country is, even in the forested areas.
So yeah, I'm guessing they weren't used locally but have been purchased for re-sale purposes.
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Post by mark Holtberg on Jul 21, 2016 15:19:47 GMT -5
have a 24e-dl want to get rid of it not bad shape need 22 firing pin and extractor (mmholtberg@gmail.com)
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