WOW price on 1873 springfield

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:45 pm

I was looking around and found this. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... m=96746777
Talk about insane $29,995.00 for a half burn non shooter.

Jaguarundi · Post by **Jaguarundi** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:57 pm

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Mich Hunter · Post by **Mich Hunter** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:23 am

I want what he is smoking

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:49 am

Funny - it didn't say where it had Custer's scalp to go with it. Only thing I can imagine would make it worth that much!

Gun Smith · Post by **Gun Smith** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:33 am

I liked the no money back non return too.

ohwin94_61 · Post by **ohwin94_61** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:03 am

Str8man · Post by **Str8man** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:59 am

That is REALLY funny!
You can still pick up decent condition trapdoors with shiney shootable bores in my area for $500.
I'm sure they were all owned by a guy who did something somewhere sometime and no one knows what happened to him but here is his gun!
I see a money making opportunity!

Ray Newman · Post by **Ray Newman** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:00 pm

Another classic example that you buy the rifle, not the story....

brucew44guns · Post by **brucew44guns** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:38 pm

Some lunatic may come along and buy the thing. I have long gun and carbine 1873, they look better than NIB compared to that beater.

model55 · Post by **model55** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:17 pm

don Tomás · Post by **don Tomás** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:00 pm

Looks like somebody sobered up, as it's come down a bit from $29,995:

Current Bit: $36.01
'Buy It Now': $795.00

Better hurry, only 11 days left in auction!

Tom

(I'm surprised that the $36.01 was bid...)

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:32 pm

Pick one for $795.00!!!

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:18 pm

I can hear it now:

You need to sell some of your guns! You have too many of them old, dirty things around here and I can't display any of my wicker baskets or purses!

But honey, I TRIED! I just couldn't find anyone willing to buy them!

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:39 pm

As old P.T Barnum said, "Theres a sucker born every minute". And some sucker who just inherited 500 thou. will come along and grab that up.

Back in the late nineties, I knew a guy who inherited 3 million dollars. he bought not one, but TWO 1955 Chevys for 30 thou. apiece. I have since heard, those cars have been out in the weather since he bought them. He was going to every gunshop in Pa. and buying every Colt SAA he could find, and did not care what the price was. A lot of dealers saw him coming from a mile a way and got rich off of him. We nicknamed him "Tart"----------------------Sixgun