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So does anyone think $600 too high for philly SW 12 ga, 30" F/M, modern demensions, solid wood free of cracks and only light scratches, tight on face, no c/c, bluing 80%, no barrel dents or bulges, smooth bores BUT......checkering nearly smooth, some pitting on left barrel around forend, small amount of pitting on left side of receiver and along underside of rib and of course, short chambers. I would be buying it to shoot it.

I don't! Sounds all cosmetic to me and I'd consider spiffing it up sometime later. For that price you could have a nice project gun that you could experiment on yourself.....gently, of course......or you could send it out for all kinds of upgrading eventually.

As additional information on this topic:

I bought a decent Utica Sterlingworth 12 gauge for $500 two years ago at a local gunshow. Cosmetics were "so-so to poor" but mechanically it was good. I then spent about a grand having it re-blued, re-casecolored, refinishing/recheckering the stock, and adding a recoil pad to lengthen the LOP. For $1,500 I ended up with a like new gun that pleases me, and I shoot decently.

I'm guessing that I could probably sell it for close to the total cost.

JERRY

Nearly smooth checkering on a Philadelphia era Sterlingworth is most common as new-out-of-the-box they had flat checkering. Shortly into the Savage-era they started getting coarse pointed-up checkering as found on Model 99 rifles.