I do think that Bill Murphy did a good job of defining the characteristics of a cult gun on another board, one which has a bit of a rabid, yet nonetheless relatively small, dedicated following, said following resulting in prices that are rising faster than guns in general as the gun develops its cult (that it didn't have originally), and usually has some unique characteristic that endears it to its followers (and often is derided by others), tend to not be ubiquitous, and often has some interesting history to debate.
I do again nominate the Winchester SX-1 for this category (in this Bill and I agree).
- Those who love this gun (myself included) are passionate about it (to the extent of pouring ridiculous money into engraving, restocking, etc...oh, my aching bank account LOL)
- Prices have rapidly increased in the last few years
- To those who love this gun, its a bank vault solid hunk of machined steel, still reflects the tooled steel manufacturer of by gone years (no stamped 1100 parts here), and screams "last of the classic Winchesters". To others it's a rail road tie of an automatic (their loss )
- quanties made are relatively small (compared to 1100 or 3XX series Beretta autos)and given its out of production status its probably not the auto a new shooter would try to buy and maintain
- Most of the records are lost adding to some mystery about date of manf and config differences, etc.
I sill shortly have one of the most expensive SX-1s probably ever made...and I can't justify it other than by my love for this gun and a desire to bring one to its ultimate state and honor the Win tradition.
