![]() Common auction house trick is to set low estimate prices in hope of getting several bidders hoping to get a bargin. I suspect they have the estimate rather lower than that gun will bring even in the shape it is in. Bigger investment in engraving might make me wrong but I would rather try an upgrade than a full restoration of this gun. ![]() Take a G grade of the same date and you could make it into a Optimus for about what this one will cost to fix. Because it is easier to upgrade than to restore a badly worn or abused gun. Now this gun shows you why they fake low grade guns into high grade guns. Old guns look better natural to me anyways. So you save a few hundred by not haveing it case color done again. A very few people can do that work themselves most have to pay others to do it for them. If you get rid of most of the external pitting on the reciever and get the metal back into decent shape you are looking at big time labor cost. ![]() Have to send it out and have them decide if it can be done. Internal and external pittign scares me in a gun with. 020 and pitted, even that may be a stretch. The barrels I hope can be saved to save the damascus barrels but if they are. Still will cost to have it fit and finished. So as a shooter you could save maybe half of the blank price and get a decent blank for a shooter. I know the repair is old and has held up for many years but it looks like sh-t on a stick. ![]() ![]() Few here can shoot one well with that much drop. To restore this gun to a shooter will take a new stock I suspect. ![]()
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