What are your guns with the most increase in value?

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wgp said:
I bought a Colt Diamondback .22 6" newffor about $200. When I see them now at shows they are usually asking around $2,000.
Bought an SKB 200E for $600 at an auction, last one I saw was $1,200.
Several others have increased in value, but these are the best examples I have. Of course, to get the money I'd have to sell, and I don't want to.
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Any transferable pre '86 machine gun. Paid like $500 for my West Hurley Thompson 1928 and $200 NFA tax circa 1985, easily would sell for $14-18K now. Bigest mistake I ever made was not following up on the M-16 that I'd test fired and was ready to buy when prices doubled immediately after the new rules were announced. I didn't have a lot of spare cash then, but I should have went to the Credit Union.
 
My double action Colt 22 revolvers have done real well from an appreciation point of view. I am slowly selling some of them off. I don't have the collector drive any more. They just became guns.... fairly valuable guns, but just guns.
 
I haven't owned anything long enough for it to really appreciate in value (only got into shooting about 6-7 years ago). However, I have bought several rifles at very cheap prices that I could definitely flip them for more than I paid.
 
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... mostly because I know a lot of you are here for the pictures....

This was given to me in the late 70s. It belonged to an uncle who died a couple years ago. Made in Belgium.

Then there are a couple SKSs and rather beat up milsurps I'm surprised have gone up as much as they have.
 
According to a thread here these are over priced in the retail and CMP markets

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Armybrat said:
A decent all original Winchester 1866 “Yellowboy” carbine - paid $50 for it in 1968.
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You are EVIL!!!!! ;):evil: But I guess considerably less so in 1968.:confused: Plus, no one makes .44 Henry Rimfire now anyway. :neener:

Seriously, I'm just razzin' you a bit. And you got a very nice collectible at what was a great price even in '68.:thumbup:
 
Armybrat, I notice the front sight is not integral to the front barrel band. Iirc, most 1866 carbines had the front sight as part of the fbb. Possibly that 1866 is a later production one?.... one made as 1873 production was also going on?

I don't recall enough about Winchester production in that era to be sure and don't have time right now to check.....

......Does your other 66 have the same front sight arrangement?

P. S. Thank you for that photo! Nice carbine.
 
Tommygunn said:
Armybrat, I notice the front sight is not integral to the front barrel band. Iirc, most 1866 carbines had the front sight as part of the fbb. Possibly that 1866 is a later production one?.... one made as 1873 production was also going on?

I don't recall enough about Winchester production in that era to be sure and don't have time right now to check.....

......Does your other 66 have the same front sight arrangement?

P. S. Thank you for that photo! Nice carbine.
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I believe you are correct. The first one posted has the integral barrel band sight. I took another photo to get it in. image.jpg
 
In the mid 90s revolvers were replaced by semiautos in police service. Suddenly you could hardly give a revolver away. I bought several, including a mint 8" S&W 14 for $225 and a 6" S&W K38 Target Masterpiece for $250. The best was a perfect and original 6" Royal Blue Colt Python LNIB for $500.

What's really amazing though are M1 Carbines. At one point in the early 90s there was a huge importation and they were everywhere for $150-$175. I bought a couple, wish I'd bought more.
 
I was once offered $2400 for my SAR-48HB, which I paid $645 for back in the 80s. But that was during the AWB-have no idea what it's worth now, as I'm not any more interested in selling it now, as then. Just this year my neighbor offered me $750 for my 80s Redhawk. I paid $350 for that. I have a beautiful DWM Luger that would likely fetch a pretty penny, and I got it for free, same for a Colt 1903 Pocket auto. Maybe another would be a 1957 Winchester '94, like new, but with a Williams offset scope mount and Weaver K4, which was also free.
 
There is a few that come to mind. But like most here, those are the ones I wont sell.

Some I got for free. And no matter how much that prestine 16Ga Parker is worth, it won't replace the fact that my grandaddy killed quil, ducks, and whatever else he shot at with it.
 
I have 4 colt AR-15s mostly LE6920s and a CAR-A3
These were all anywhere from 700-800$ within the last decade. It looks like they have all doubled in "going rate". (Give or take)

I think this is due to Colts decision to cease mfg. them for the public. We will see how long that lasts.
As long as AR-15s are legal in most states, which im of the opinion that that will be for a long long time, Colt will manufacture them again, its just a matter of when. Unless another platform dominates the market (FN scar, or some other modular service carbine or PDW) Thats all TBD. The US Military will determine the outcome of that for all of us.
Cheers gentleman!
 
I bought a Versa Max Tactical shotgun in 2012/2013 when I worked at Remington and paid around $500 NIB for it (the top one shown below). I sold it on Gunbroker last month for $2,026. I still have the A-TACS shotgun also in the photo. The Versa Max was a paper weight for me so I was happy to see it go and roll the money into an AMP annealer and A&D FX120i powder trickler.

I bought a 4" stainless Colt Python NIB in 1992/1993 for $750. I don't know what it's worth today but I'm not selling it, even if it would put $3,000 in my pocket. If it's worth less than I paid for it I could care less because it's such an awesome revolver which I have no interest in selling .... ever!

I think the opposite direction is far more interesting ... i.e. what firearm have you lost the most on?

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I have Browning Hi-Power Practical in 40 S&W that I believe was made 1993. Still have the box and papers. Then there is the Beretta BL-3 20ga last made in 1976. I had Ballistics Specialties put their Angle-Ported Choke tubes in it. The closest thing to it now is a 686. I don't know how much my Verona has gone up. It is a 501 model 2-barrel set 410/28ga. I bought it wholesale in 1994. It is still in the original hardcase, but no papers.
 
Saiga 12s. Paid around 800$ each for converted Saiga 12s Two of them about ten years ago.
I thought the ban from importation was going to make these suckers climb up into the 1800$ range in no time.....well, they didnt. They are kind of a set of albatrosses in my safe. Is it they just require so much custom work to be a reliable, and user friendly gun? Is it that Kalish...usa made ones better making the originals the inferior weapon?
Im not sure.
 
Machine guns because the last civilian transferable ones were on the books before May 19, 1986. A $150 gun back then is $8000 today and it only goes up from there.
 
A 327 Blackhawk I got on a trade for $250 Rossi 92 in 45c. The last one I saw on GB went for $1400+.

I also have (well youngest son has taken them over) a Marlin 336 Texan in 35 Rem and a 39 that my Father in Law give less than $200 for the pair new. Although none are for sale I figure the three have increased quite a bit.
 
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