Jim NE
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Hi everyone. I haven't posted in a long time. Other than maintenance, I haven't been dealing with my gun collection much lately, but I do have a question concerning it:
I have been looking at values online recently. A lot of completed auctions on gunbroker.
My focus has always primarily been handguns. Don't have many elaborate rifles, and only low end shotguns. I guess my favorite category has been the vintage S&W revolvers. I have an assortment of the iconic S&W's of yesteryear - K frames, J frames with blued finishes, pinned barrels and magna grips. Guns of the 1950's to early 1980's. The preponderance are in '38 Special, but have some other calibers, too, and most are in the 90 - 96% range condition wise - good shape - with a few others lower and higher than that.
It used to be that I would see values on these guns (which I started buying in earnest about 15 years ago) go up in value gradually over time. Just recently, however, I think I've noticed values being either stagnant or coming down. I used to focus on .38 when buying because they were less money, but even though they never brought the money .357's did, I would still see them increase in value until recently. Have any of you noticed values of older once desirable handguns going down, or am I imagining it?
I have a couple of nice old Colt revolver models that also don't seem to be bringing the money online that they once did. Even my two nice Browning Hi Power C Series don't seem to be worth what they were a couple years ago. Is it a revolver thing...a .38 Special thing? Interested to hear what you've seen as far as values. Maybe tactical stuff is in higher demand nowadays and that's where people devote their resources.
I have been looking at values online recently. A lot of completed auctions on gunbroker.
My focus has always primarily been handguns. Don't have many elaborate rifles, and only low end shotguns. I guess my favorite category has been the vintage S&W revolvers. I have an assortment of the iconic S&W's of yesteryear - K frames, J frames with blued finishes, pinned barrels and magna grips. Guns of the 1950's to early 1980's. The preponderance are in '38 Special, but have some other calibers, too, and most are in the 90 - 96% range condition wise - good shape - with a few others lower and higher than that.
It used to be that I would see values on these guns (which I started buying in earnest about 15 years ago) go up in value gradually over time. Just recently, however, I think I've noticed values being either stagnant or coming down. I used to focus on .38 when buying because they were less money, but even though they never brought the money .357's did, I would still see them increase in value until recently. Have any of you noticed values of older once desirable handguns going down, or am I imagining it?
I have a couple of nice old Colt revolver models that also don't seem to be bringing the money online that they once did. Even my two nice Browning Hi Power C Series don't seem to be worth what they were a couple years ago. Is it a revolver thing...a .38 Special thing? Interested to hear what you've seen as far as values. Maybe tactical stuff is in higher demand nowadays and that's where people devote their resources.