In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Pump Actions Too???
Austringer62
Member Posts: 36 ✭
I am just flabbergasted by the prices I am seeing guns sell for, I can't be the only one. I shoot mostly lever actions and have noticed that prices have gone up dramatically on those. There was a time, not long ago, you could find them everywhere for a decent price. Some you could barely give away.
Today I was looking for a pump action in 260 Remington, and I can't believe the prices on the Remington's, it's unbelievable. In my area you used to be able to pick them up for a song and dance, now they are selling for thousands with well into double digit bids. What's going on? Is all that's left for me to pick up for a young hunter an ugly, cheap feeling, plastic gun?
Are guns the new toilet paper?
Comments
I have not looked at gun prices for some time now as I was not interested ( I know its a sin ) in getting any more
I have a 760 30-06 I have owned for years along with a 742 in 30-06. I doubt if 20 maybe 40 rounds were fired thru either one just in the back yard shooting .
but for a long time the pumps were the only rife some states could use to hunt with and brought a better price but that was some time ago
I have even heard the pump action versions called Amish machineguns in PA.
Remington went bankrupt and closed shop. All of their assets were sold off to pay the creditors. The new owner of Remington firearms, Remarms, has been making the products that were/are the most popular, like the Mod 700 and the shotguns. Like you said, a few years ago they couldn't hardly give away the gun you are looking for so I doubt if you will see it brought back into production soon. Any you see now were made by the old Remington and are scarce. Scarcity is what is driving the price sky high. Good luck in your search. Bob
About anything discontinued is now good to go. Investment, could be, I know hindsight is always better but I never would have guessed the prices of some Remington shotguns, 700's and the like. It's why I am not rich in money.
I have two 762, 30-06's and have had a couple 742's, I prefer the pump anytime, they shoot as fast as needed and I have had zero jamming issues compared to the 742's which seem to jam almost everytime you needed them. And yes they used to be in the $300 dollar range sometimes less, but almost all guns are that way, I recently did a gun show, and was suprised at the prices folks were asking for the older shotguns and rifles, though I didn't see a lot of them being sold.......
Even though I am very attached to mine I'm not really a gun guy, if that makes sense, I use them for hunting (...and CCW...) Never fully understood collecting something that is meant to be used, so I didn't realize Remington's are now being collected. This won't make sense to some (most?), but when I see I decades old gun new in box I "feel sorry" for it....probably sounds crazy. I can only hope that at some point it will be rained on, scuffed up, dropped, bloodied, and well taken care of.
I'll find something for the kid, it just won't be the guns that would have come to mind if this were still a pre-covid world. Just saw a new Mossberg bolt action I think will check most of the boxes.
I had a hard time finding an old wooded stocked,blued single shot 22 at a reasonable price.
One the other hand, prices for pre 64 Winchesters and Colt Pythons seem to be off from where they were 10 years ago.
I noticed that as well, I saw a pre 64 Winchester sell a day or two ago and was surprised at the relatively low price. At least compared to where they were. I saw a new Python at a local pawn shop/gun store, so they are making them again. Maybe that's bringing the prices down.
Yep. Way back in 2009, I picked up one of those Remington 7615 Police pumps for about $400 new (like the below). I seem to recall posting about it here and getting a lot of comments on how useless and ridiculous it was. Fast forward 14 years. I still have it, and it remains unfired. In the last year or so, I’ve seen them go on the auction side and elsewhere from $1500 to $3,000, and most were used/fired. Needless to say, I’m pretty happy about that kind of appreciation.
Ken I remember you posting when you bought yours
And all the comments that followed
Looks like you won out
Incredible, good for you guys, you picked them up at the right time. That's the thing about self defense guns vs. hunting arms, they can be doing their jobs 24/7 and still be mostly like new.
In 02 I picked up a Rem 7600 in 35 Whelen with a Leupold VIII. It was part of an estate sale & no one wanted it. It's in excellent condition & at the time, $500 was fair. I may actually shoot it to see if I either keep it or let Kasey sell it.
I am waiting for my skeet grade Rem. Mod 58 Sportsman to rise over book value of 250$. Like new pretty much.
I thank God that when I got into collecting firearms, I choose Marlins and Remington 700 BDL's. I only have JM marked Marlins too, which command a lot more money. As for the 700 BDL's, I haven't seen the price on them move that much. The Marlins, went through the roof!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some prices I have seen, are ridiculous, in my opinion. The common man cannot afford to buy a nice lever action rifle any more, unless he knows a widow that is offing her husbands collection.
The one firearm that seems to never grow in value, and I don't understand why, is the Winchester model 88. I have collected them, and they can still be bought for under a grand, for the 308 and 243. The 358 and 284 is where all the money is.