KansasSasquatch
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H&R .410 single shot for $85 out the door. Sold it a year or so later for $10 loss. Just didn't use it much. Only one near as cheap was my first Mosin at $89 plus tax.
That would be around $210 by today’s income standards so, I would say you bid great.Back in 1960-61 I paid $9.95 for a Remington 03A3 rifle from the DCM.
I was going to go to a gun auction about 20 years ago but ended up having to work that day. A friend went to the auction and bragged about how poorly it was attended and the great deals he got. But most gun auctions I have been to the prices fetched tend to exceed what the gun is worth. I went to an auction that was selling off a gun store's inventory that had gone bankrupt. People were bidding more than the price tags that were still on the guns. Crazy.I was still in high school and working at a small auction in Junction City, Oregon on the weekends. A couple of WWI bring-backs - a G98 and a Springfield 03 - came on the block.
Nobody bid.