Considering new quality SXSs run in the $2500 and up range, still solid American guns by Remington, Smith, Ithaca, Fox and Parker can certainly offer a shooter value. Great deals still exist too! A couple years ago I bought a very solid L.C. Smith FW 12ga for $175. from a guy a my club who had been trying to sell it for more than a year! I saw his ad for it on the board and his asking price of 175 and assumed it was sold. 6 months later I was talking to him and asked if it was still around- to my surprise it was! Modern demensions too! As Chuck H. said to me not long ago "there are more deals than money" very true. I passed on a 12ga SKB(not American) SXS for $400. last month and bought an NID for the same money. A local shop has an NID for $495. but won't budge on the price and there is a gunshow the end of this month! If you check the auction sites and scroll through the SXSs almost every Stevens 311 has a bid? Gunbroker has a 20ga Parker Trojan at $1500. starting, with no bids. It has a blued receiver and is restocked, but as a shooter it beats the price on a new Beretta by quite a bit.
Last edited by ben-t; 03/11/08 01:30 PM.
