I bet you don't have one of these...

[tbonesmith]

Sorry tbone, I meant to ask, if I advertised a new barrel for 500 would it sell? I don't think it would. It would be interesting to know how much it would cost the factory to manufacture these.

I disagree, I think new manufactured No1 barrels would sell for more than $500 each if complete, finished and ready to fit. Maybe we'll see...

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[Homer]

I disagree, I think new manufactured No1 barrels would sell for more than $500 each if complete, finished and ready to fit. Maybe we'll see...

With sights fitted mate is a different story and maybe a newly manufactured barrel might be more appealing. I advertised an as new parkerised barrel, dated 1950, no sights and still sealed in plastic for 450 and only got one call in many weeks. The fact is at the moment you can still buy rifles with perfect bores for 700 bucks and I suspect the factory would want upward of 700, especially if it were fitted up with sights. The sights would make it a fairly detailed and costly manufacturing process. Alternatively, buying one without sights would be a costly exercise for the consumer to then have them fitted. I'm not sure the demand would match up to the cost and maybe the factory figured this out already.
I'd love to know more.

[Son]

With sights fitted mate is a different story and maybe a newly manufactured barrel might be more appealing. I advertised an as new parkerised barrel, dated 1950, no sights and still sealed in plastic for 450 and only got one call in many weeks. The fact is at the moment you can still buy rifles with perfect bores for 700 bucks and I suspect the factory would want upward of 700, especially if it were fitted up with sights. The sights would make it a fairly detailed and costly manufacturing process. Alternatively, buying one without sights would be a costly exercise for the consumer to then have them fitted. I'm not sure the demand would match up to the cost and maybe the factory figured this out already.
I'd love to know more.

So many nails hit on the head in so few lines.....


hey, Homer... wonder if anyone could post the knox form pic over on flat earth... could cause someone to blow a heartlidge!


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