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I walk in a local gun shop today and spent an hour or so looking all around the store, looking for that golden nugget. This gun store has guns in 4 or 5 rooms on 2 levels. I'm a good customer, so they let me look unsupervised in the stock room. They always have a few dozen used trade-ins that are waiting on clean up in the back room. I had looked at everything and did not find anything of interest, so I was heading home when something leaning in the corner of a dimly-lit back-room caught my eye. It was a minty 1888 Mauser 71/84 (tube-magazine) in original condition. It has a half-dozen incredible cartouches on the stock, and mint bore. EVERY frigging part on this thing has a matching number, even each screw and the sling swivels.
I was looking it over thinking this is too good to be true. I checked the tag and it was marked "consignment" w/o a price. I head down to the owners office and was stopped by one of the salesman. He tells me that he was going to buy it and had set it back. The manager overhead him and said that the gun was not marked with his name on it and that I am a good paying customer, so the gun was mine. SWEEEEET!!! I really hated to dog the salesman on the gun, but how often do you find a mint Mauser made in 1988?
The owner overhead the conversation and says "give 57Strat the gun for $550". I'm like "FOOKING SOLD!!!", and thanked the owner very much and told him how lucky I felt to have found this fine example of 1888 craftsmanship.
Not that I would sell this gun, but check out the price on the same gun on gun broker that is in a little worse shape than mine.
GunBroker Link
Here's a few quick pics. I need to clean her up.
http://bimmer.roadfly.com/bmw/forums/test/7895105-1.html
I was looking it over thinking this is too good to be true. I checked the tag and it was marked "consignment" w/o a price. I head down to the owners office and was stopped by one of the salesman. He tells me that he was going to buy it and had set it back. The manager overhead him and said that the gun was not marked with his name on it and that I am a good paying customer, so the gun was mine. SWEEEEET!!! I really hated to dog the salesman on the gun, but how often do you find a mint Mauser made in 1988?
The owner overhead the conversation and says "give 57Strat the gun for $550". I'm like "FOOKING SOLD!!!", and thanked the owner very much and told him how lucky I felt to have found this fine example of 1888 craftsmanship.
Not that I would sell this gun, but check out the price on the same gun on gun broker that is in a little worse shape than mine.
GunBroker Link
Here's a few quick pics. I need to clean her up.
http://bimmer.roadfly.com/bmw/forums/test/7895105-1.html