Originally Posted by
Nomercy448
You know the year it was proofed, you know the model, walk into walmart, they almost always have a gun trader's guide in the hunting section. Buy it if you want, or just look it up standing in the aisle.
Like Flags and myself, to most guys that have been around them long, it doesn't make much sense that the prices on the 94's are up. All gun prices went up a few years ago (used that is), and as I mentioned before, the resale prices on the 94's shot through the roof when Winchester stopped making them. At the price that they reintroduced them at, it only served to sustain the used resale prices of the 94's.
But since most guys don't follow gun prices like they should, you'll find 2 things: guys that don't know any better selling their gun for what they THINK it's worth, rather than what it's actually worth today (hence the occasional $250-300 private sale), or guys that don't want to spend $300 on one because they remember NEW prices on one being under $300.
But today's price is today's price. I don't imagine the used price of the 94 will ever come down much again. Hasn't for 10yrs so far. Maybe Winchester will remember that the 94 is supposed to be the "everyman's rifle", and start making an affordable model again someday. That's the only way I really foresee used prices coming back down.
As for me, I'm sitting on my 94's and waiting. They're almost at a price I'm wanting to sell, but not quite yet.
I seriously doubt it NM... look at the price of the NEW model 94s!!! My first car didn't cost that much and I'm not that old.
I feel like a broken record in the gunshop sometimes. Model 1100s have gone through the roof too. People always go... well dang man I bought one of these about 10-12 year ago for $250 all day long.... course the answer is... this ain't 10-12 years ago.
Part of the reason I think used gun prices have gone up so much is because they are made SO SO SO much better than the bargain lines produced today. And even the new bargain lines are not exactly cheap. Pick up a new production Marlin 336... with that god awful Remington finish and that unsightly OSB wood stock... feel like a paddle, finished like a deck on a mobile home and fits like hand-me-down boots....$450??? Negative... if I wanted a lever... I would GLADLY pay that same amount for an older Marlin or Winchester than that for a new Marlin.
And show me a semi-auto shotgun made as well as the 1100 for under $500 new on todays market???? Don't exist... not even close.
Winchester made those model 70 super shadows or whatever they were called about the time the WSSM cartridges came out in 02-03 something like that... they were under $500... and they were alright guns, but still... spend that money on an older 700 and you have a much better built gun. Winchesters are great rifles.. but the new model 70s are not an everyday man's gun..... that's more along the lines of the Marlin X7.