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Think you'll do better to advertise and sell the guns and the wood separately -- buyers looking for guns, others looking for wood, nothing extraneous to deal with for either.

Jay

I bet if you sell the wood on EBay that you will get more for it than selling with the guns. Using that wood unless the buyer can do all the work himself will cost the buyer almost two thirds the guns current value.

I watched a pair of Sterlingworths sell at auction for less than one of the restocking jobs that were done to them. And the work was very well done. Restock a gun and you will find out it rarely increases its value.

I'm still waiting for an answer to my above question:

Why would anyone want to re-stock these in the 1st place?

Jim

I'm still waiting for an answer to my above question:

Why would anyone want to re-stock these in the 1st place?


Jim

I'm pretty sure the original post answers this.

Jim
The man that owns them was going to have 2 matching guns with longer lengths of pull and higher dimensions. I think his original thoughts were to use the guns to shoot box birds. As to why he wanted to do this ,I have no clue other than to say he owns them and it is certainly his right to do as he pleases. Project never happened . He has no intention of restocking these guns.

Thanks USHOOT2
I suspect this project must have been dreamed up many years ago when materials and labor were much more affordable. I couldn't see how anyone could or would sink this kind of money into "Plain Jane" Winchester Model 21s today unless they could re-stock them themselves.
Jim

Yeah, I wondered about that also Jim. If I had say $3000 in loose change to spend on a 12 DT Extractor boxlock "Farmer's Gun" (whatever in the Blue Bonnet Blazes that means)- I'd buy a Ithaca NID field or grade 1 for between &750 to say $1250- 30" M&F- and spend the rest on shells and shoot the living blazes out of barn pigeons, crows and starlings with it until it felt like an extension of my hands and eyes- Same rugged boxlock and way less than the M21 pricing- as for the wood, I'd get in touch with the custom gun makers and see if they have clients with M21 12 gauges for restocking- The stocks look A-OK to me!! Oh, I have loads of farmer friends (and by co-incidence, many private farms to hunt that are closed to others- doing welding and fabrication work gratis for farmers does have its dividends)- to them,a "Farmer's Gun" is either an Iver Johnson Champion 12 30" full, or maybe if they felt "in the chips" when they laid their greenbacks on the counter, either a Winchester Model 1897 pumpgun "The Old Cornholer" or even better, the never equaled Winchester Model 12- "The Perfect Repeater"-- the only "two-holers" my farmer friends know are the older outhouses out back--

Why Shoot a mile and Hell Yes- but them both for sale on E-Bay, some lucky schmuck might even bid $500 for them and end of grinnin' like the proverbial *&^%-eatin' raccoon--or terrapin even yet!!

KY Jon, my shooting and gunshow partner bought both of those Sterlingworths. In about a week, we'll find out how good a deal he made. I have a nice "Farmer Grade" 21 in very high condition and I like it a lot. I attended the auction where the #2 gun was sold and I was through before I got started. $9000 is off the scale, even for #2. Bill Murphy, up here in MD.