Used Guns - Hidden Gold Mines

[rking453]

Seems like I'm always finding myself on the hunt for some firearm that isn't necessarily "rare" but hard to find. Other than the obvious gunbroker, gunsinternational, guns dot com, gunsamerica, where do you folks look when you can't find what you're looking for?

Gun shops near me are few and far between, and typically their inventory looks a lot like whatever walmart was selling 10-20 years ago.

 

[IrkedCitizen]

Forum classified section

 

[kaboku68]

Use the Walmart selection to your advantage. Buy several "working man" rifles generally 7s, Ruger 77s, Winchester Model 70s, and Remington 700s for cheap. Low ball like a boss. Get them for 250-450 dollars per pop. Concentrate on 300 Win, 7 Rems and 338s. People tend to shoot those ones less. 270s, 243s, 308s, even 30/06s get shot more. A 270 shot for 50 years and used hard for 50 years is generally in more used condition than the 338 that was shot four times and put in a dry closet. So you get 10-15 of these fodder - Working Man's rifles and when something good comes in you trade 3-5 of these for something worth 1.5K to 2K. You fluff up the trade value of the working man's rifles and you barter down the price of the item that you seek. You go to all of the shops around you and you take inventory from one shop and take the used rifles to the shops that haven't seen them. Clean those rifles up nicely between when you buy them and trade them.

 

[letrbuck]

proxibid

 

[kaboku68]

I have about four gunshops that I work with. The key thing is that I try to trade guns from other shops to other shops. I just put three rifles up. The top is a 71 Deluxe that I got for 2200 trade value. The Second is a Steyr MS that I got for 1500 trade value and the 3rd is a custom Hal Hartley 270 Winchester done on a FN Commercial Mauser for 600.

 

[ozyclint]

Abused guns

 

[rking453]

proxibid

Ah, good idea on proxibid, I hadn't thought of that