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be sure to look up other buyers and what experience with the seller,lots of "cracker barrel" and poorly worked on guns (from Francetown NH) out there and the ability to return them is usually gone once he has your check !
Here is a good example:


" Ed Good in NH is an appraiser, and lists many older classic SxS shotguns on Gun Broker. I bought a vintage SxS from this company, but when I mounted the barrels, they were loose. I tried to return it, but was told that since the action is tight when the forend is attached, it is "shootable", and no return would be accepted. The forend is a part of the action's lock-up (???). I sent him several articles on checking a SxS for wear looseness just as I had done, and he said that was a matter of opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if most of his listings are beater guns, waiting for sale with no chance of return, to become someone else's headache. Steer clear.

KY Jon, the symptoms you describe is an incurable illness called Gunitis. I am 81 and been inflicted with this for 50+ years, I thought I had cured myself once but when I retired it reinfected me. I still find myself buying guns that I know I don't need and will never even use. Maybe we can start Guns Aynomous(I know that is spelled wrong but my dictonary is buried under a pile of guns and parts) maybe we can meet here once a month and confess our problems.
Jim A.

james: you aint the only one...

I agree this is one of the most entertaining thread I vote for KY Jon for president.... of something!! but I ain't saying I'm not going to make the same mistake again....

monty: yeah right...but we got da feva...an watt ah pleasure hit is!

It is a disease I continue to fight, even as I go through relapses (new purchases)

I tried hard to argue myself into believing I only "needed" three shotguns, Light, Medium, Heavy. I sold my collection of 38 Shotguns down to three. But then I came up with the "Bad Weather Gun", then the "loaner" gun for when a friend needs a gun, then a "wife's" gun (have not brought this one yet), then the "curiousity" gun, say something in 14 gauge. As a good drinking buddy of mine once put it (when we were 16) "great nations live at a deficit, why not us?" Just before asking for another beer. At least I solved the debt problem and only buy with cash. I have never solved the desire challenge.

The disease is endless and can breakout in different viral forms. The next disease outbreak appears to be on the rifle side. For 30 years I owned two rifles, .300 Savage M99, and Marlin .22 M39. Lately I have added two double rifles (in calibers completely unsuited to deer in my state) and a Martini Henry single shot.

I once bought a double rifle "which I though was a cheap deal " from Holts to see how the system works getting it here ect..... Now I know $$$$$

don't forget a parts gun or 2, if you accrue older guns that are long out of production parts can get hard to find...

the problem for me becomes acute, when seduced by a hammer gon...

and those weighing under seven pounds are irresistible...

That dovetails nicely with Murphy's law of inanimate reproduction, which states "If you have a mechanical device of some sort, and take it apart, and put it together enough times, you will eventually have two of them".

Murphy was an optimist.

Best,
Ted