So the Professor walks in the other day....
...he is one of our regular customers, teaches biology at Whitman College here in Walla Walla. He, like most of us here, is a fan of older iron and brings in stuff from time to time for consignment. He is also a pretty fair machinist and gunsmith.
Lo and behold, this visit he walks in with a long gun case in hand.
"Whutcha got?" sez I.
"Late model 1897 Winchester" sez he.
I look it over, and easily rate it as between 85 to 90%. Good, honest gun.
"If it is a 1955, I will buy it myownself" sez yours truly. We can all guess what year I'm born, right?
Son of a gun! It IS a 1955! I will have to get pics up toot sweet. BTW, years ago I passed up a NIB 1955 1897 at a gun show for lack of funds. Killed me that did. I swore I would have a clean '55 example someday in lieu thereof. Oh, $400 American. Not shabby for a clean hammer pump, eh?
Otony, owner of a Grail Gun of sorts.
I get it about the birth/mfg year, got my 52C for the same
by Hobie 
, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Wednesday, July 01, 2015, 20:11 (3437 days ago) @ Otony
reason AND the same year. Sounds like a good deal for you.
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Sincerely,
Hobie
I get it about the birth/mfg year, got my 52C for the same
I saw the NIB 1897 I mentioned quite a few years back. The asking price at the time? $400! It was not a bad deal then.
So wait 20 years, pay the same, and get a 90% 1897. In all honesty, I think I did okay.
Now if a 1955 dated Marlin 39 or 336 were to come along..........
Otony
I have a 1956 39M... It is fun looking for them and the
by Hobie , Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Wednesday, July 01, 2015, 21:34 (3437 days ago) @ Otony
guns are old enough to interest me. I like old stuff and now I am old stuff...
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Sincerely,
Hobie
Bought my only birth year gun in December
by Murphy , Wednesday, July 01, 2015, 21:30 (3437 days ago) @ Otony
I'm plumb fool about S&W's. Been waiting for sometime and stumbled onto a nice, clean six inch K-38 just about Christmas on Gunbroker. Yep, bought myself a Christmas present :) (Vintage 1953)
As an added extra, the first shots I fired from it were at CSA this year.
Murphy