Yard sale finds

skeet · #1 05-23-2007, 10:32 PM

Got a few more yard sale guns last weekend. Nothing earth shattering.but got a nice older(1958) Beretta 25 auto about 92% in the box with papers..and a fairly nice Colt Detective Special 38 as well as a Stevens 311 20 ga SxS(cheap at 100 bucks). Turned down an 1100 Rem with 2 extra VR bbls for 350 as I have 16 1100 guns now. but the price was right.

Dan Morris · #2 05-24-2007, 06:24 AM

I'm seeing a little better stuff in GS lately. Like you, not exceptional buy decent....people are putting the $$$ in the gas tank!
Dan

skeet · #3 05-24-2007, 10:47 AM

Dan I think you have hit it right on the head....People aren't necessarily hurting..just costing a good bit more to go where they want to go. A lot of the stuff in yard and garage sales here are from estates. People selling off what their parents and grandparents collected over the years. Lot of JUNQUE(higher class junk). Lots of jobs available here. They just don't pay much. Jobless rate here is supposedly about 1.5%...and they are the ones who don't want to work anyway.

fishdoggydog · #4 05-24-2007, 10:14 PM

I sold a Colt Detective .38 about 20 years ago for around $200, about what I paid for it. A New Frontier .22 caliber 6 shooter went down the road too cheap about the same time, it is what starting a family did to my gun collection.

skeet · #5 05-25-2007, 01:46 AM

Me too man. When I got married.. I sold most of a collection of Winchester M-12's. Sold 66 guns and bought a house and had some money left over to redo the place. Can't say I did too bad though. After 30 yrs I did get about 900G's for what I ended up with. A lot more than the guns would be worth now anyway.

NOW...I just have to talk momma into letting me have about 100 thou or so to spend on some other guns! Sounds like a plan, huh??

Don't think I'll get that one past the planning stage though!