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Browning Buckmark Silhouette NIB value.

1mountainbiker1mountainbiker Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
edited April 2008 in Ask the Experts
I have just purchased a Browning Buckmark Silhouette NIB (New In Box)with all paperwork, tools, manufacturer date 1996, and since the store wanted it out of their "Old Gun" show case, I got an extra magazine with it.

I know the price I paid is way below what it goes for but I am wondering, not blue book value, what would be a general ballpark value as I purchased it to shoot it but then changed my mind.

I guess the answer I would get would sort of determine if I decide to shoot it or list it on Gunbroker for sale.
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  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Check out some past and present auctions on the auction side. I find that a much better indicator of current values, than the blue book.
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  • HandgunHTR52HandgunHTR52 Member Posts: 2,735
    edited November -1
    Just another comment, if you do plan to sell, you should find out if there are any IHMSA (International Handgun Metallic Shooting Association) ranges near you. If so, you should go to a shoot with the Browning in hand and let everyone know it is for sale and how much. I doubt you would have any trouble selling it.
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  • blacarrowblacarrow Member Posts: 424 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I sold a similar pistol about 2 years ago for $800.

    Hope this helps.
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  • 1mountainbiker1mountainbiker Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've seen the prices lately and it seems that even NIB are only going for about 450 bucks. Guess the market has changed for this pistol.
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  • 1mountainbiker1mountainbiker Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yup, checked them out. I sort of decided last night that I probably won't sell only since it's a real shooter from one of the top guns in our club. He has one and with a 2x scope, from bench, it's a single hole gun with match ammo.

    I'm more in it for NRA Bullseye, Plate, and Pin shoots.

    Oh, also he says that it's a 1/4" gun at 100yards from the bench, that's hard to believe. But my TOZ does that at 50yards but then there's a big difference in the two.

    Also there's that cool factor that I like. But I also like money. But then again it's such a pain in the butt to get a pistol permit where I live in NJ that it makes me think of the pain I had to endure just to get it.

    I'M SOOO CONFUSED.....
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  • HandgunHTR52HandgunHTR52 Member Posts: 2,735
    edited November -1
    Well, my first advise would be to move out of NJ. [:D][}:)]

    Secondly, I still stand by my statement of finding a silhouette match to go too. It is the second most fun thing you can do laying down.[8D] That Buckmark will do you well.
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  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Do not ever doubt the accuracy of a Buckmark. I will pit them against anything. Every one I have ever sold from my shop has been an absolute tack driver. I personally have a model similar to the silohuette, called the Varmint. I have a 2 1/2-7 power scope on it. From the bench, using the 550 perbox Federal copper plated hollowpoints you used to get at wally world, I can draw you a smiley face on a 1 inch orange sticker that has the little diamond in the center, at 50 yards. That is the ammo it prefers. It has really pissed off a lot of guys with scoped out S&W 41's, Rugers, and High Standard's. I done the trigger on it myself, as I was not happy with the factory adjustment...just too much pretravel.
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