Pawn Shop Scores

[Swampman]

I picked up this 1950 vintage Model 94 and a 1981 era 39A for less than $500.00 out the door yesterday.
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[dragonrider]

Nice score Swampman,

[Bret4207]

Good on you! We don't have much in the way of pawn shops up here and the consignment shops won't handle guns. Guns, guitars and tools, that's where the pawn shop hits it's mark.

When I was a very young Trooper (1987) making 17K I had to sell off a bunch of guns. My Marlin 39 Mountie with the tang sight went. I really, really miss that rifle. I've seen a grand total of 2 Mounties since the and both were marked over $500.00.

[Crash_Corrigan]

Bret: I retired from the NYCPD in 1984 with 20 years in service on a normal service pension. Then I read today that you were a young trooper in 1987......

Jeepers I had been retired for a few years and at this point I was living in Northern Vermont in a log home. We left Vermont in '88 due to my wife's bad back that was benefited by moving out West. Less humidity and warmer mostly helped a lot.

Now I am close to pushing 70 and I am just beginning to realize you young you are.....Shazaam........

[Bret4207]

If it helps Ell Tee, I FEEL 85 or 90 most days....

[KirkD]

Nice haul, and nice photos!

[Ed in North Texas]

You did great!

I haven't seen a good Pawn Shop deal in a long, long time. Partly because of what I'm interested in, and partly the condition of what they have. The last Savage 99 I looked at (about 10 years ago) was in .308. It had been used hard, if not abused. The wood would have graded "fair" and maybe "good", metal not much (if any) better, I didn't look at the bore - $675. I wouldn't have paid that out the door, much less plus sales tax.

The one I most regret is the Marlin 1894 in .25-20 at a pawn shop outside Ft. Sill - $40.00 in 1967. I passed because of the hassle of living on base and having a privately owned firearm stored on post. Oh well... I often wonder who got my DCM M-1 Carbine. Traded/sold that at a pawn shop for a typewriter to do my term papers in college.