take off barrel value?
What is a fair market value for my take-off barrel from my Remington stainlss (fired 8 times) 375H&H...with sights. It'll cost me nearly $400 to have it rebarreled so I guess my take-off barrel would be worth 1/3 the value of this new barrel! What do you think?
thanks in advance for your help.
thanks in advance for your help.
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With standard shotgun barrels, it's a lot easier to determine the market value. For rifle barrels, especially exotic calibers like yours, it's impossible to predict.
My feeling is that you will be lucky to sell it at any price, but I will gladly be proven wrong.
Neal0 -
Mike: Its a matter of Supply and Demand...! Don't think theres to much demand for a Stainless Take off..! People tend to get suspecious of New barrels being changed out.....If you get an offer of $50.00...My Considered Opinion is to say..Take it and be happy...! The Choice is Yours.....
Captain Kirk, Tech Staff0 -
I WILL GIVE YOU $10.00 DEL. I WILL SAW IT UP AND MAKE DECOY WEIGHTS, IF FACT THROUGH IN THE WHOLE RIFLE AND I COULD GO AS HIGH AS $15.00.
I WOULD RATHER BE DUCK HUNTING.0 -
Hang it on the wall at the gunshop, and see what offers come in, that way you have all the time in the world to wait for a decent selling price. get your money back later, after you have been shooting your new barreled rifle and having fun.
A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.0 -
i will give you 50.00 plus shipping if you want to sell the bbl. i have been looking for one for a while. glen_nuinez@hotmail.com
glen e nuinez0 -
W-E-L-L, Duckhunter, you are not very reverent towards my lovely stainlss barrel, but I'll counter offer: if your throw in that 'flapjack' holster for the bent barreled, rusted, screwed on backwards, broken trigger, bent framed, scratched cylinder, twisted front sight, cut off barreled S&W 63...which only has use as a paper weight now...then I will cut up this barrel for your decoy's and I will deliver these chunks to your blind...but I'll bring my SBE just in case...LOL! 0 -
michael,
If it were me, I'd list it on GunBroker and be sure to check the box that says to "auto re-list" until it sells (re-listing is free so it can't hurt) ... its a exotic caliber, so don't expect it to sell fast, but it will sell eventually. Write a good description and picture ... an explanation of why you took it off may help ... or may hurt, since you didn't tell us your reason for re-barreling, we can only speculate >>>
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Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!kimberkid@gunbroker.zzn.com0 -
Hi KK,
I do not like paper thin, skinny barrel's on a magnum caliber action, it's kinda like -being forced- to accept a week 6 cylinder motor in high dollar sports car. I'll bet the high dollar vehicle that the President of Remington drive's, does not have the weakest, cheapest motor because he did not want to spend a few hundred buck's more for a bigger motor!
If gun makers want to scrimp or be cheap skate's in the production of their firearms, I don't think the barrel is where it should be done! Plastic stock's fine, plastic followers fine, plastic trigger guards okay any place else then why not make disposable gun's: 6-shot revolvers then throw'em away, 4 shot rifles then throw'em away! Isn't Rem's 740 a step closer?
I mean what is $10 or $20 or a $30 difference to the consumer who is "g-o-i-n-g to spend" $600 or more on a -an investment- rifle PLUS d..n tax if that amount of money is the only difference in cost between a cheap, skinny barrel vs a better, barrel; with today's high cost of ammo that is only the cost of one box of ammo in some case's!!!
Look, today's foolish consumer is spending more money -bucket full's-on rifle's w/o factory open sights. Check the wholesale cost between the same everything rifle: one has factory sights the other doesn't and the difference in money is way less than $100.
Ruger has a great system on SOME of their rifle's: an integral scope system and open sights but even they are too cheap to do it for all their rifles.
Aren't `WE' are spending more and getting less...? I think so
Edited by - michael minarik on 08/16/2002 09:05:24
Edited by - michael minarik on 08/16/2002 09:06:480 -
Please don't list it to run until sold.
There are many ads like that that have run here for over a year and I can't figure out how to block them out of my search efforts.
They clutter things up.
If you want to sell it,list it with no reserve,start at $0.99 and run it a week.
cpermd0 -
michael - I'm with you on that! But telling people that you took it off because its "Paper Thin" won't help you sell it. Manufacturers SAY they are doing it to reduce weight (and say "thats what the consumer wants"), making it lighter can only mean one thing ... a skinny barrel. Why Remington would put such a barrel on a beast like that is beyond me!
I don't have any rifles with skinny barrels or weigh less than about 10 pounds, on a Mauser I'm building the barrel alone weighs 8 pounds ... and its just a 22-250 ... heck, even a 10-22 with a skinny barrel wont hold much of a group, but when you up-grade to a bull barrel the groups shrink drastically ... When buying a gun, the barrel should be the biggest concern ... if you are only going to hunt with it, and take 1-2 shots at a time, letting it cool down isn't a problem, otherwise a heavy barrel is a requirement and with it comes weight.
I don't know you, or how you came to select this rifle, but it doesn't sound like you got the right gun for your intended purposes. In looking at Remington's site, with what they offer in the custom shop, you probably would have found what your looking for right out of the box, but about $1000 more than you paid ... the model 700 Safari in .375 H&H weighs approx 9 pounds and is $1622, the Model 700 African Big Game (ABG) in .375 H&H weighs in at 9.5 pounds and is $1727 ... and you can be pretty sure the difference in weight from the BDL S.S. is in the barrel. Realistically you came out ahead by buying the cheaper gun and having it re-barreled.
... but I agree, you shouldn't have had to rebarrel a new gun, and you shouldn't have to pay "Custom Shop" prices just to get a heavier barrel on a 700 ...
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Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!kimberkid@gunbroker.zzn.com0
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