I am a collector, builder and just straight up crazy tinker. I have a passion to create something from stuff that others have lost interest in or discarded, even past functioning (broken). I can find many a springer but not finding any pcp's. Are there not as many out there in the wild to be had. Maybe all the pre charged guys collectors as well?
Other Where do all the old air guns go to die?
- Thread starter FireballDave
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GunBroker.com has occasional flashes of brilliance.
I've dropped bids on a few guns and get an email a week or more later telling me I won.
Then there was the auction with the A.H. Hartley & Falcon HN-19.
I was going to be that buyer with more money than sense.
Didn't actually have to get crazy paid right around what they go for currently in England.
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Many high bidders pay what could be considered, for lack of a better term, full retail for a perfectly healthy, fully functional and pristine example, for what turns out to be less than excellent examples that might need resealing, at least; or worse yet. Adding the price, time and/or effort involved to reseal or repair a gun with little to no parts availability within the cyberspace stratosphere exacerbates that common scenario. More often than not sellers auctioning anything with problems or issues 'fail' to be the most 'forthcoming' in their (purposely) vague descriptions.
Having lived such 'enlightening'
experiences more times than I care to share, I always consider worst-case scenarios to be likely reality in such situations.To paraphrase, I can't afford many (more) pigs in a poke.
FWIW, I usually interrogate sellers relentlessly about condition, both seen and unseen, with my last question being, "does it have ANY problems or issues of any kind we haven't discussed, be they functional or cosmetic?"
FYI, dishonest peddlers will nevertheless answer that pointed, no wiggle-room question with a lie. Sometimes the only recourse becomes leaving negative feedback; but that beats no recourse at all, and is certainly justified. Correction- MORE than justified.
Happy bidding.
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air gun sellers usually ask too much;then can not sell so instead of lowering their price the put the air gun in a corner and forget about it; they die and it is up to someone else to sell it,they do not know what to ask and just want to get rid of it.Craigs list n,facebook or your newspaper maybe better places to find cheaper "stuff" .I make this promise,I will die with only one airgun.
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I fully expect these, most likely, estate sale guns to require more than a little TLC. Usually sitting around collecting dust for years. I've yet to regret, well maybe 1, my purchases. I would have gone through the gun regardless and replaced the obvious orings. I add upgrades like huma regulators. I learn the gun by disassembling and reassembling. when stumped I just ask here and the answer is provided.
But in the end I own a rifle that I wanted to own. Not a rifle I bought to fill a niche and just needed to be functional.
But in the end I own a rifle that I wanted to own. Not a rifle I bought to fill a niche and just needed to be functional.
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Yep, collections on Gunbroker.com are consigned from estates. Usually start as $0.01 opening bid. I drop bids on them and about 25% of the time it wins. 25% of the time I get outbid and rebid. 50% time I don't care enough to rebid.air gun sellers usually ask too much;then can not sell so instead of lowering their price the put the air gun in a corner and forget about it; they die and it is up to someone else to sell it,they do not know what to ask and just want to get rid of it.Craigs list n,facebook or your newspaper maybe better places to find cheaper "stuff" .I make this promise,I will die with only one airgun.
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