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Thursday I went out to the Beinfield Antique and Sporting Arms GS at the Riv here in LV....it was set up day, Ron Peterson of Albequere musta sold 25 guns as he was pulling them outa the gun cases. It was a feeding frenzy.

Anyway $100 to $300 wouldn't even buy U Clawsons Book on the Colt 1911s...those are $699 to $1000 each. The Beinfield had Colt 1911s, SAA, Percussions, Smiths, Winchester Lever Actions and US Military etc
wall to wall. You want a Sharps 1874 Long Range you need $25000 for a decent one, an engraved Remington Hepburn Target Rifle U need $20000, a decent Colt SAA Cavalry try $24,500..One needs Cubic $$$$ Bills to build a collection today.

Over at the Sporting Arms Show one could purchase a lovely Holland and Holland Double Shotgun for $65000, a nice Parker VHE 28 GA for $18500 or a Griffin & Howe on a Mauser in 30/06 for $6000. I even saw the Griffin & Howe in 505 Gibbs that was purchased at a JC Devine Auction early in 2006 for a hammer price of $21,000 plus closing costs...it was POR...to date only 5 have been built.

Ohhh and I did get to see Tom Selleck...