FN/Browning Model 1900 - any experiences?

[sheepherder]

I commented in the other FN 1900 thread that there was a seller on GB with a pitted 1900 with a bulged barrel...It's still there; has been for about a year (I think)...Price still too high...For that condition; otherwise, it's in my ballpark...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=207220115

I commend this seller for being honest about the bulged barrel, and for showing *all* the pits (28 pics of pits!), but, really...$250 starting price??? And it has the "large" grips...

I have a tool for straightening out squibbed barrels, and even if it didn't work, Numrich has barrel(s) listed right now in stock for $60...

But those pits...[sigh]...

The $490 1900 is still there, too...and it doesn't look all that much better...(only 3 pics)...and it has the "small" grips...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=206917049

Here's a comparison of the two...Pic attached...

Katyusha's 1900 is looking better all the time...

[alvin]

Originally Posted by postino

Katyusha's 1900 is looking better all the time...

We received a querying message suggesting its BB value being $600. I have not looked up BB yet, but probably that's right. We paid a couple of hundred more. But that's back a few years ago when 1 oz American Eagle silver coin was ~$10.... say it cost 80 coins. Now, each coin asks $30 after Fed's QE2.... if we bought it for 80 coins but sell it for only 20 coins, that would not be good So it stays.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by alvin

We received a querying message suggesting its BB value being $600...

Did I use wrong emoticon??? Sorry...

Yours is the best looking I have seen...but I have no interest in holsters/rigs, and a shooter would be acceptable to me...besides, I am broke...literally...

I was hoping Ron Wood would buy yours and sell me one of his shooters...