Made my regular pawn and gun shop rounds yesterday and late Friday. Hard to do with multiple kids games and wifely duties. Mostly junk, but you do find some interesting things if you get lucky.
One shop always has a few doubles had a high condition Crescent .410 that I have been looking for a upgrade project. This one is so nice I might just keep looking. Last shop said he had another .410 for me. Now two .410s in a year is a treat from these shops as 90% are 12 gauge klunkers, Stevens, ect... worn out shooters. Not sure I have seen two .410 in the last two years combined.
Dealer told me it had to be a Ithaca nitro special .410. Told me it was not marked Lefever as some of the later ones were not marked. I said that I would look at it but that I had already bought a .410 the same day. Pawn shop was right it was not marked Lefever or Nitro Special because Ithaca did not mark their NIDs that way. No closet queen to be sure, but it has to be a solid 70-80% gun. Seller wanted $1,100.00 for the gun. I made the mistake of just plunking down the money once with this dealer and the prices just about went double for six months. Hard not to just give him the money and run but I had to dickered with him for several minutes. At one point I almost had traded the Crescent .410 and $200.00 for the gun but the dealer decided he wanted money more than another gun. No surprise for me at that response. Ended up paying $850.00 for the gun.
So I ended up with two .410s and both were bargins to boot. Saw sons play in five baseball games and they went 4 for 5 in victories and batted something over .750 for the weekend. Hard to get much better. And my wife thought I was in such a good mood because I got to see the boys play well.
