No. 1 & No. 2..........What do you think.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/844286252
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No. 1 & No. 2..........What do you think.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/844286252
awful spendy.
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Haha
Hahahaha
He’s gotta be hoping that Winchester or a museum will want them.
1.75 mil. oh yeah I'm gonna run right out and get them,not. And I think no firearms museum is going to bite at his prices. Frank
I hope someone, somewhere - will have the zeros in his account to buy them and shoot the tar out of them.
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None for me thanks .
Jack
It's kind of a rip if you have to put it on your credit card and loose the cash discount.
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It brings new meaning to "pre-64"...…… [smilie=1:
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That's a great point!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Winger Ed.
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Somebody has big dreams!!!!
take all the zeros off that buy it now price and it would be a fair deal.
I could buy 4375 Howas for that. One of them is bound to be a shooter.
P.T. Barnum got it right!
Aw come on Lloyd that's only 175 bucks we don't want to insult the guy. I'll bid $900 on the pair. Heck I'll even throw in a well used pre 64 Ford pickup. :)
Dirty sucker won't even let you place a bid. I was going to $1.15M but I guess he's holding out
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truthfully 900 a piece would be a fair offer. I just never saw the hoopla around the pre 64 70s. To me there kind of blocky and homely like the first gen ruger 77s but even worse. Want a nice 70 take that 900 bucks and buy yourself a brand new featherweight. Fit and finish put the old guns to shame and they shoot better to boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loudenboomer
Quite impressed with one guy owning both SN#1 and #2 from 1936 and in that original shape.
They probably should go to Cody!
good point there!Quote:
Originally Posted by swheeler
They belong behind glass for sure.
There's some "As Seen On TV" infomercial potential here:
"Buy the Number 1 Winchester Model 70 for only one and three-quarters million dollars, and we'll throw in the Number 2 Model 70 for FREE! (Just pay separate shipping charges)"
The Cody Museum really is the place for those. What they're worth is kind of ephemeral. . . Yes, they're the product of a very special era, when American industry had grown up, but a lot of America was still wild, and yes, they're the lowest-numbered versions of what is arguably the best mass-produced deer rifle ever made. . .but they're still mass-produced deer rifles, that we're owned by or used on Presidents, industrialists, or movie stars - they went out with Bubba and hunted deer.
OTOH, mass produced deer rifles ain't what they used to be. I just helped clean up and restock a Remington Hepburn single shot from the 1880's (BEAUTIFUL gun), and at several spots along the way, I wanted to take pictures and send them to Remington with a letter asking "What the hell happened to you guys anyway?" The prime source for classic blued American Steel these days is Italy, and they aren't making the bolt guns, so I can sorta see how some rich rabbit might get misty-eyed for a rare sampling of the real stuff.
$1.75 million ain't misty eyed that's out and out bawling ! Most rich guys will tell you that they didn't get rich by being suckers for a DEAL like that .
Hee! In a somewhat related note, the shotgun used by Wyatt Earp to blow Curly Bill Brocious nearly in half is going up for auction:
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/wy...allas/2298159/
Might make for an interesting "human psychology" study in what all of these actually end up going for - the semi-high-end bolt actions that are "special" simply by serial number, versus the fairly pedestrian-grade double barrel that is "special" for having participated in an era-defining event.
Don't hit the buy it now button by mistake.
They should be in either the NRA Museum or in Cody.
As for the price? Who knows? Something is worth what someone is willing to pay
I have a model 70 in 30-06 made in 1939 that I would let go for a good deal less than that price.
It's interesting to see what some of these famous guns sell for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigslug
Several years ago, Jack Ruby's brother sold the 5 shot S & W .38 that was used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald.
Seems like it sold for about $20,000.
Think you're off by a factor of 10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winger Ed.
https://apnews.com/c5bc4667fa920d169cd246a913701305
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And it was a Colt, not a Smith...
Unless you just have to have bragging rights or are fixated with classic stuff, the current CRF Model 70 is every bit as good or better.