Auction sale of 1911

[Patrick Chadwick]

Sold for $385. Seemed a bit high to me but I don't know a lot about these. Is that a reasonable price? I'm wondering if the tiger striping bumped the price up.

It does seem rather high. There are plenty of Swiss rifles around, and they seem to me to be generally undervalued. That price should have bought a perfect example, not one with a "pretty abused" stock. Maybe we are soon going to see an upwards trend, as frustrated shoooters look for a better price/performance ratio than is offered by a lot of the more usual models.

Bore looked perfect.

And that is why I think they are undervalued. The quality of the Swiss rifles I have seen up to now has been excellent. I have a very late (almost the last) G96/11, and it is the best "out of the box" open-sight shooter with original ammo that I have ever had in my hands. Apart from acquiring a higher foresight, I have done absolutely nothing to this rifle other than clean and oil it. The barrel was already free-floating as made, and the combination with the GP11 ammo is wonderfully accurate. There was such a lot of GP11 for sale about a year ago, in hefty 470 (?)-round block packages, that I think the Swiss must have cleared out a depot. It seems to have dried up now.

The trouble is - the sights. I have occasionally seen add-on diopter sights sold, but only for the K31, and the prices are shocking. Like more, much more than my rifle cost. One fine day, I am going to mold a clamp-on sight system for my G96/11.