Recent Auction Acquisitions

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Well I went to an auction the other evening. A friend I did gun shows with contracted cancer and passed away. His wife sold most of the guns he had at an auction in Cody. Prices were really high as the auction was also on the net by Proxibid but the guy was a friend and his wife needed the money I guess...so I paid wayyy too much for some of these items.. The items pictured are some of the smaller items i got.. I can't stand it when Contender bbls get sold so I bought the 3 pictured One is a 30-30 and the other 2 are 22 Hornets. All have Leupold handgun scopes and I averaged about 225 on them.. The Handgun pictured is a really nice Ruger BlackHawk 357..But it IS a FlatTop made in I think 1958..I also have a FlatTop 44 Mag and am really tickled to have one of each. The Gun is in really nice condition and all original..I paid a bit much at 500 for it but..heck I WANTED it. Not pictured are 2 rifles I picked up..One is a like new Remington 788 in the kinda rare 6MM cal with a 3x9 Leupold VX II. Also paid 500 for it but again I WANTED it. The last was a Ruger 77 in 257 Roberts with a Leupold 3x9 VXII that I paid 475 for..but it was AFTER the auction.. Just bought it for some trading stock. And today I pick up a Winchester 94 rifle in 30-30 I bought sight unseen from an aquaintance..He wanted 250 for it and I just said to heck with it and bought it. My gun show partner has seen it and said it's in nice shape but not like new. And just before the show I got a neat little 6x18 Craftsman lathe from a local knifemaker for the grand sum of 60 bucks. Had almost all the threading gears and some tooling so I couldn't resist. I even bought a neat little knife from him for 50 bucks. As an aside.. There were quite a few knives in this auction and Holy Cow..Knives are really getting up there. Regular ol Buck knives were selling for 50 to 150 bucks..