Quote Originally Posted by msup13 View Post
It sounds like you have been buying and selling Garands in the market for quite some time now.
Unfortunately, I'm by no means an expert!
I make my decisions, financially, based on research like I laid out above.
Generally speaking, I do see today's prices as a bit lower than a few years ago. Based solely on years-old auction results compared to recent results.

I suspect this has more to do with a dwindling base of buyers than anything else. As unfortunate as it is, folks like your friends father are headed to the big gun store in the sky.
I tend to be the youngest guy at the auction house by 10 or 15 years with a large gap in the middle and a big concentration of the post-70 crowd.