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Actually, German's wartime finish quality was not high either. But let's put finish aside, and talk about general Mauser vs Chnese copy quality in another thread, as a gun, not as an artifact. I will start another thread tonight. |
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By his comments, I would doubt he was a Federal Agent, had expertise in firearms or was a professional like he claimed.
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Actually, does not matter. He wants that gun, then, that's the price... unless you have a special rate for government employee.
10mm could be interesting.. ammo is expensive. |
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Which all comes back to the best advice I've ever seen regarding used firearms:
Believe the gun, discount the story. Clearly the more experience you have judging a gun by appearance, the better off you are when buying a used firearm. If you really were trying to be deceptive, you could have easily cleaned all the carbon away using a mild polish. That would, of course, been detectable too for one skilled in such observation...
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Visited a small dealer last Friday. The sales person had nothing to do, while I was in the show room, he took down a new short barrel .45 pistol from rack, pulled the slide many times and had fun. "You will create unnecessary scratches"
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Very kind of him, and necessary with many of these new short 1911 types- many don't function well for the first xxx rounds. This type pistol is bought to carry and used, so scratches are of no consequence. JMHO. ![]() |
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Well it sold for $1275 and the buyer is tickled to own it and can't wait to shoot it and carry it. Good for him.
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![]() FWIW, I had an exchange with a GB seller of a late war PP. It was a bit "cautious" on his part - and I don't blame him. Gun LOOKS great, but he didn't want to offer a 3 day non-firing inspection period because "shipping's too expensive". I told him that shipping's on me both ways - AND - that I'd buy the gun at his BIN price (which was fair enough) if he'd grant that. He did, albeit with a "reluctant feel". I honestly don't expect to find anything wrong with the gun, he has good pix, and a good rep. But I wanted that security. I also asked him if he thought it was a re-blue (price appropriate for same). He played that one carefully and said "It might be". The rest of his auctions that I have a vague idea of the value of the item, are pretty much spot on. He might be asking about $25 too much for a Iver-Johnson built "U.S. Revolver" that has issues, but that's because I have one too! So I think he's a fair enough seller, just being cautious as he doesn't know me from Adam as the saying goes. |
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