ORIGINAL: bigcountry

My brother got me this book for Christmas. I was little sceptical at first thinking its only inflated values for gun, thats useless. But started looking and its pretty close, maybe undervaluing in alot of circumstances and some overvalueing.

For instance, my Rem 700 BDL SS/Syn with DM 300Win mag, is said to be worth $460. Thats about right. Maybe 50 dollars too much.

But my coveted 700BDL varmint special 7mm-08, only values at $350 in 95%. I myself wouldn't take $600 for this little sub.5MOA jewel.

But says my Mod 29-5 44mag with 5" barrel is worth $450. Kinda surprised so high. I paid like $325 for it. I think I got a deal. But values my Mod 13 357 mag nicel at $200. Kinda low I thought. But smith made 1000's upon thousands of those police models.

I went thru the rest of my collection, and no surprises. But came upon the A-Bolt Sluggun and it values it at $500 98%. I thought that was way low for the going rate these days. I wouldn't give $1000 for one, but people do.

So what I am suggesting with this post, is the book is not bad. And if you go by it in most circumstances, at say a gun show, your not going to walk out being totally screwed, and some circumstances, you might get a heck of a deal. If you like me and go to shows alot, and your taking a look at guns, and some guy says, "how much will ya give for it", you now have some basis for your offer.