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Age of Pre 64 Winchester collectors
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Is there a younger generation of Pre 64 collectors or at least a group that will still find this a disireable firearm coming up? Are there any feelings that the current price for very nice collectable Winchesters reached the top?
MONEY TALKS mine says good-bye
MONEY TALKS mine says good-bye
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Bert H.
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i consider the fit, finish, quality, and accuraccy of PRE-64 models to be vastly superior to later, or modern production models. best regards, mike.
What other dungeon is so dark as ones own heart, what jailer so inexorable as ones own mind.
MONEY TALKS mine says good-bye
MONEY TALKS mine says good-bye
I think you answered your own question when you qualified them very nice. Any quality made firearm in nice condition I feel will hold and or increase in value. I'm 64 and the reason I have them is because they were the things that weren't available to me when I was young. Every Winchester I own is pre 64, in fact I just bought the first new gun of my life a couple of weeks ago. I think more young people than you realize appreciate beautiful walnut and blued steel. I'm a pre 64 nut.[:p]
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I think you answered your own question when you qualified them very nice. Any quality made firearm in nice condition I feel will hold and or increase in value. I'm 64 and the reason I have them is because they were the things that weren't available to me when I was young. Every Winchester I own is pre 64, in fact I just bought the first new gun of my life a couple of weeks ago. I think more young people than you realize appreciate beautiful walnut and blued steel. I'm a pre 64 nut.[:p]
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I agree with Scott-Their value will continue to appreciate as will any quality arm of any era.They represent top-of-the-line production firearms. Whenever I show one to a young person, they are taken back as to the fit and finish for what was once an off the rack offering.
Love them Pre-64's!!!!-Bob
thanks Bill
(correns husband)
I was a gun freak when I was a kid and have recently come full circle and gotten back into it. As a teenager I was surrounded by 870's, 1100's, 700's, and so on. The older guys I looked up to introduced me to the model 12's, model 70's, and the like.
I bought a model 12 about twenty years ago and have never shot it. I was going to put a rib on it and fancy wood and there it sits. I'll probably never do anything with it. I'm not a big fan of the safety in front of the trigger and I don't have a hunting situation that warrants dragging it out.
I bought a model 70 in a 270 and used it for a few years, but ended up selling it to a friend so that I would force myself to build the 270 I really wanted with a sniper stock and v-block mounted stainless, fluted barrel on a 700 action. I had hunted quite a bit with this rifle and nothing feels like a model 70, but like the shotgun there just wasn't that connection.
Sometime later I bought another model 70 in a 300 H&H and it too just sits in the safe and has never been fired. I always planned on making an open sight sporter out of it for rainy days, but like the rest there isn't that connection.
Bottom line to answer the question I would have to say if not then it's definitely heading that way. Steel shot has destroyed the model 12 and the younger generation doesn't appreciate or know anything about those early firearms. Zero care factor translates into lower prices.
As for me I've owned them, but never used them as a kid or had a father or grandfather to hand one down to me. Those guns were part of a heritage and full of nostalgia. They take one back to the good old days before over population and things like the internet. I'm sure this information age has some benefits, but I'm afraid like the hunting and fishing of 30-40 years ago, those old classic firearms are just a thing of the past.
I always said I was born 40 years to late. It's hard not to live in the past, but man it used to be a lot better. Wouldn't you agree?
Boldt
Love them Pre-64's!!!!-Bob
Keep your powder dry and keep it in the wind..
Harley
I use two Winchesters out of the 20+ I own, they make Remington's to beat threw the brush.
My opinion is the $$$ will definately go up, has there been declines so far???????
Consider it a investment for the future and buy buy buy...
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He Dog
I'd say the biggest problem today, is a good old Winchester is worth more in parts, than a whole gun in some cases. Which prooves one thing, people are still shooting them, and occassionally they break or get damaged. When they find out that a gunsmith will charge around a $100 to fix a broken firing pin on a Md 12, or they can go buy a complete used bolt for around $50. and swap it out. Winchester use to build their guns to last a lifetime. They did a good job. A lot of Md 12's have lasted the lifetime of several owners.
Considering the price of what new long guns are going for, Remington, Browning, an old Winchester looks like a good value, as long as you don't mind a fixed choke gun. Pre64 94s and 70s are continuing to rise. With the internet now you can find just about any old Winchester you want. Prior to that you were limited to the local gunshops, gunshows, and a few publications, (Gun List, Shotguns News) So I feel there will always be a demand, very simalar to classic cars.
Regards Dave
I'd say the biggest problem today, is a good old Winchester is worth more in parts, than a whole gun in some cases. Which prooves one thing, people are still shooting them, and occassionally they break or get damaged. When they find out that a gunsmith will charge around a $100 to fix a broken firing pin on a Md 12, or they can go buy a complete used bolt for around $50. and swap it out. Winchester use to build their guns to last a lifetime. They did a good job. A lot of Md 12's have lasted the lifetime of several owners.
Considering the price of what new long guns are going for, Remington, Browning, an old Winchester looks like a good value, as long as you don't mind a fixed choke gun. Pre64 94s and 70s are continuing to rise. With the internet now you can find just about any old Winchester you want. Prior to that you were limited to the local gunshops, gunshows, and a few publications, (Gun List, Shotguns News) So I feel there will always be a demand, very simalar to classic cars.
I'm 49 now, and still buying Winchesters. Regards Dave