Antique Rifle Values

seemehaha · Post by **seemehaha** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:00 pm

I have an acquaintance that has a winchester .22 that was given to him by his grandfather. It's 100+ years old and he was asking me if I knew where he could find out how much it might be worth. I only really know competitive shooting, so I was wondering if anyone had suggestions where to look (books, websites, etc) for a value estimate?

Bowman26 · Post by **Bowman26** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:52 pm

Besides the usual bluebook values I find a good place to determine a pieces value is on Gunbroker. If you do an advanced search and select auctions that already ended you can often see what the last ones sold on that site went for. If it is really rare you might have to call an appraiser and take it in for a look.

Now don't go on GB and see a current auction with some crazy buy it now price and think that is the rifles value. Many nuts on Gunbroker think they have something special or are just waiting for a sucker to come along and buy it at their way over priced asking amount.

Bo