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Mark,
If it is good condition, I would not walk, I would run and buy it!
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Agree. If the gun is tight, bores good and wood solid, that's a buy on a Fox.
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Yes, that is a good deal for solid shooter as described above.
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If it's good & tight, decent bores & wood BUY IT & turn it for $800. Them 2%s will add up.
Best Regards, George
To see my guns go to www.mylandco.com Select "SPORTING GUNS " My E-Mail palmettotreasure@aol.com
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Better get it or let me know where it is.Look it over good, that's too cheap... MDC
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Even the hillbillies know a good SW is worth more than that.
Better check it out! Lowell, I'll have you to know I resemble that. Hillbillies is people too. I know, cause I are one.  Curtis, the hillbilly And that sounds like a really good price on the Sterlingworth.
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Don't want to highjack this thread but I've always been curious as to why there are alot of old doublegun receivers that have been "buffed"? What exactly does that mean? How much does it affect/effect the value?
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The curious attraction to buffing is rewarded in the case of the SW by the propensity of the Chromox alloy to polish up to an intense mirror like finish and retain it even in the presence of skin salts. Some hill folk like it and some flatlanders too no doubt. I've had occasion to smear some Oxpho-Blu around just to get rid of it.
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As to your question, Ironman, my understanding, or bias if you will, is that the slightest remnant of case color is still an indicator or originality; i.e., unremuddled gun. Threadbare field grades aren't particularly valuable but they don't get more so by being pimped, customized, personalized. Case in point: have that same heavy 30" SW 12, restocked in crotch black walnut, recased, good bores, lever right. $840 at local shop. Apparently the 700 bucks worth of stock work didn't impress them as much value added. I like it because the comb is high but I'd hate to have spent the money on it. I went this route just once with an early Fox BE. Got 1700 in it and I don't know if I could get it back out although the feeding frenzy on GunBroker a couple years back suggested that there might have been a moment in time when I could have.
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I think all of us on here know that rebuilding a SW (or other field grade doubles) will not pay back the investment, let alone make a profit. At least, not immediately.
In fact, some of the best deals I have made on SWs has been those which have been redone and then passed into the chain of commerce. I have a couple that look absolutely beautiful and like brand (re)new, that I bought for about what a good field grade would go for. That seems even more so for Parkers. Jake
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