Why is this handguard worth so much?

**GUTS** · 03-06-2011 05:17 AM

Am I missing something?
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**Mark in Rochester** · 03-06-2011 08:17 AM

the cross sanding pattern would seem to indicate IHC

**bulldog_mack13** · 03-06-2011 10:00 AM

Well you got me there, and to boot the dollars not uncluded for that price.

**Rick B** · 03-06-2011 12:05 PM

I think because there are allot more original stupid people than we realize. Rick B icon

**RCS** · 03-06-2011 07:27 PM

So what is a Winchester front handguard worth ?Attachment 21228

**Bill Hollinger** · 03-06-2011 07:46 PM

One as beautiful as that? That is very nice RCS

**GUTS** · 03-06-2011 09:53 PM

I just sold this one last week for $57.75. I was reasonably sure it was a Winchester.

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It seems like prices are going up rapidly for nice stocks and handguards.
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**RCS** · 03-07-2011 08:12 AM

If you could find one, a handguard like this could start at $1500 a few years ago. It is not so much the wood (unless it is numbered and that would change everything) but that ferrule at the front. Difficult to determine if it is a repro or original from the outsideAttachment 21232

**NMC_EXP** · 03-08-2011 12:30 PM

RCS

Is that handguard a pre-production example or production gas trap example or....?

Regards

Jim

**RCS** · 03-08-2011 01:51 PM

Photo is a repro, about 12 to 15 examples made-up in the east coast area around 1992? lip was tig welded to ferrule on a fixture (not a Rahway example). R. Milton (Ohio) sold repros in the late 1980's too.

Photo below is an original ferrule with lip.Attachment 21275

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