It's a sellers market

gordon gauge said:
Had no idea that you guys were sooo sensitive on that idea. The main thrust of the thread was that there are no rimfire guns for sale in the classifieds (ok, ok, there are 7). When supply drops and demand remains basically the same, the prices go up. And apparently they can go way up.

I, me personnally, have changed my focus to Airguns. I also think that eventually the powder burners will be either legislated, or priced into extinction. Until that time I too will enjoy shooting .22 benchrest. That is my opinion. I am not trying to convince anyone else to share my feelings. I really could not care less if you do or don't, cause that is your opinion and you all have a God given right to 'em. That, also, is my opinion.

So perhaps we can just let the airgun thing fade away, and somebody tell me why there are 7 guns for sale instead of 50? And I see one that the owner is asking $5,000 for, is that a harbinger of things to come?

p.s. nice job of cut and paste Beau, you can make a sound bite and take things out of context like a veteran politico...;)
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Simple truth is that usually when a good gun for .22 BR comes up for sale it's as often as not priced reasonably and sells. There have, as long as I've been here, fewer .22's than PPC's or 6BR's, and I've bought/sold about 1/2 dozen guns here, both .22's and PPC's.
 
I'm not so certain that everyone can get the same pellets. I test for 16 different air-rifles and find that most only shoot one hole groups with a few lots of the best pellets available. Pellets have followed .22 with prices increasing every season.
 
"Simple truth is that usually when a good gun for .22 BR comes up for sale it's as often as not priced reasonably and sells. There have, as long as I've been here, fewer .22's than PPC's or 6BR's, and I've bought/sold about 1/2 dozen guns here, both .22's and PPC's. "


But I don't remember a time when there was only 1/10th as many rimfires as centerfires.

Those 2 Suhls (one pending, one for sale) look(ed) like pretty good deals. So if you look diligently, there are still .22 rimfires for under $2,000 that have good components and gifted hands putting them together/tuning them.

It will be interesting to see where prices go if this current trend of supply and demand persists.

I put my money on the "going up" bet.
 
ProneShooter said:
I'm not so certain that everyone can get the same pellets. I test for 16 different air-rifles and find that most only shoot one hole groups with a few lots of the best pellets available. Pellets have followed .22 with prices increasing every season.
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Uh, yeah. But that is like saying the price of scooters has followed Mercedes and BMW. The price difference between top end pellets and top end rimfire ammo is enormous, if not bigger.

Dang ProneShooter, that is a heck of a lot of testing. When do you sleep...;)
 
The cost of used guns going up? Probably. They will keep pace with everything else and that's probably a good thing. But the cost of parts for a new one is around $2200, more if you count the scope. So the base price for a new BR rifle will probably be around $2800 sans scope. It's expensive game unless you ever bought a full set of golf clubs that obsolete the next year. Of course, if it has Calfee on it and can be verified, it will probably bring more. Worth it? Who knows, but that's the way it is. By the way, anybody ever see or suspect a counterfeit Calfee rifle. Seems to me the only thing that proves it is that little stamped "Calfee" on the barrel. I wonder if Calfee has any way that he can identify one other than by serial number. I also wonder if he can tell if one of his rifles has been worked on by somebody else? As a matter of fact, can any gunsmith tell you that?
 
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