Wanenmacher Gun Show tomorrow

[CowboyBillWatts]

...anyone going?? good lord willing and the creek don't rise, i'll be there.

last november in tulsa, i scored a 1915 SSA, 1916 BSA, and a June 1942 Savage.

...looking forward to it...

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[Charlie]

This will be the first time I've missed the April show in over ten years. Just to much going on here at home.

[CowboyBillWatts]

impressions having attended...

no4's are out the roof on price. one guy had a 1943 longbranch at the right price, $325. then he told me he had sanded and refinished the stock. i kept walking. every other no4 on the floor (yes, i could have missed one or two) was priced at $500+. if no4s are really worth what they sell for at gun shows now, some folks on this board are very rich.

i guess i was the only one chasing no1's. found (and bought) a 1940 Lithgow, and a 1941 lithgow, all with good characteristics, including good bores; all priced less than what the no.4's were going for. also found a shtle I*** of the ER series. good metal, good bore, complete (but incorrect) stock.

conclusion -- the enfield milsurp market is constricting; decent specimens are difficult to find. prices are going up -- fast.

think i'll start collecting bayonets. don't tell anyone. maybe i'll have them all to myself.

[Richard Hare]

Cowboy,

I went to the Clagary gunshow last weekend, (Canada) and No 4's were on average in the $700.00 Canadian. (about same price as down there.) Bad thing was a lot of them had been sportered, and Just been given NOS or even Springfield Sporters DP fore-ends. Some of the fore-ends moved back and forth, so just chucked together anyhow. Buttstocks were the old ones mainly but front wood was often rough and unhandled looking.
Seems a bit of a beggar, if someone can take a $175.00 chopped Enfield, stick a new fore-end on it and price it at $700 plus.

Bayonets up here are already stupid prices..