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[burb1989]

Villiers, I might shoot it eventually since the barrel has excellent rifling but for now it is just a display for the bayonet. To think I went to that show expecting to find little if any old rifles just like most of the shows in Mississippi. I've been lucky with finding decent rifles and making ok purchases and even made one sale. I sold a vetterli vitali minus the cleaning rod for $400 after I paid only $150 for it a year ago. I figured I could get rid of that rifle since I was getting another one from my aunt in Pennsylvania that was a WW1 bringback also from my great grandpa (her father) and the cleaning rod that came with it broke over the course of a hundred years so I saved my cleaning rod from the other one.

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[jmoore]

I sold a vetterli vitali minus the cleaning rod for $400

Vetterlis used to be considered "Gun Herpes" by most dealers. In that, once you have it, it's with you forever...

[burb1989]

thank god not anymore. I used the cash from that sale to buy a 1950 Long Branch no4 enfield and some lunches for me and my dealer friend who helped me with the vetterli sale.