Help! Trying to price my Winchester M70 300WM

[Das Capitolin]

Most guns are pretty easy to value, but I haven't sold too many custom rifles with gunsmith work into them. I need your help.

I've got a tuned (blueprint milled) Winchester M70 stainless steel long action chambered in 300 Win Mag with polished match trigger and trued 28" Krieger heavy profile stainless steel match barrel that just completed slow fire break-in with only 100 low-pressure rounds total down the tube during five different firings. It's currently mounted in a Choate Ultimate Sniper stock with detachable bipod. Photos below.

This project has dragged on for almost four years, I no longer have interest in shooting or loading for 300WM, and I want to sell this safe queen. Any ideas on the starting price I should ask? Thank you in advance.

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[Bobson]

Take the total amount invested into the build and multiply by 0.87-0.88. Round up to the nearest hundred dollars and that's your asking price. You'll have some fluff room to negotiate down to a fair price (roughly 80% of the actual dollars invested).

Good luck; hope you make more off it. This is why people looking to build their first custom rifle are always told to buy a rifle someone else built and no longer want.

 

[Das Capitolin]

Take the total amount invested into the build and multiply by 0.87-0.88. Round up to the nearest hundred dollars and that's your asking price. You'll have some fluff room to negotiate down to a fair price (roughly 80% of the actual dollars invested).

Good luck; hope you make more off it. This is why people looking to build their first custom rifle are always told to buy a rifle someone else built and no longer want.

Thank you for the response. Sometimes we invest more than we should into this projects, and hope to get that money back out. In this case, it might be a learning opportunity.

 

[P.B.Walsh]

Beautiful barreled action! I wish I had the money to give you for it. I'd use $975 shipped as my asking price.

M70 CRF action- $650
action truing- $250?
Krieger Barrel- $350
Stock and bipod- $300?

I say $975 because that it not a popular stock and the bipod is not an Atlas or Harris. So I would estimate the barreled action at $1,250 new, and about $1,000 used. In my opinion, you'll basically have to give away the stock and bipod.

Love that barreled action though!

 

[Sunray]

Very much doubt you'll get back much of what you've put into it. What you think is a great modification isn't necessarily to everyone's taste. Custom stuff is just like that.
Suggest you paint the stock flat black first. It may be best to sell the barrel action and stock separately too.
"...multiply by 0.87-0.88..." Where'd you get those numbers? Just curious.

 

[Bobson]

"...multiply by 0.87-0.88..." Where'd you get those numbers? Just curious.

Just kinda ballpark percentages based on selling rifles of my own in the past, and from shopping for other used rifles.

 

[jmr40]

On used guns I've found that 50% to 80% of what a comparable new one sells for is about right. Normally I'd find a new rifle's price and multiply by .5 to .8 to determine the value used.

Whether it is closer to 50% or 80% is determined by the individual gun, its desirability and it's condition. It also depends on whether I'm buying or selling. I've never seen a used gun sell for 88% of the value of a new gun unless it were extremely rare and the older guns were more desirable for some reason. With discontinued models you just have to find something comparable.

Custom guns are harder to predict. You NEVER come close to getting back the money spent on the custom features and if possible it is usually best to put it back as close to factory and sell custom parts separately. Not possible with the barrel.

That started as a SS Classic model 70. I see them sell used for around $800 as a complete rifle. I think P.B.Walsh is pretty close to being accurate. Somewhere around $1000 or a little less is probably what it would sell for. The stock hurts it more than anything else.

But you never know. If someone really wants that exact setup they might pay a lot more.

 

[Nature Boy]

I second the comments above, that looks like an awesome barreled action. Putting it in that stock however might be a crime in several states as well as a few providences in Canada. All kidding aside, it's a very nice rifle that's crying for a chassis or McMillian stock. I think that's what your potential customer base would be wanting it for.

 

[Geno]

That is a beautiful rifle!

Geno

 

[Das Capitolin]

It feels like a catch 22: sell this rifle with the old temporary stock I had available, or spend money on a new one just to take a loss on the sale.

Thank you for the advice!