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<blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 2043515" data-attributes="member: 7157"><p>I'm sure gun auctions in the past were worthy of attendance, but in these days of the Internet, with information available at one's fingertips, auctions nowadays are, by and large, a waste of time IMHO. The last one I attended a couple years ago, a farm auction where they had a number of milsurps on the block, was promising - most of the folks there were farmers and ranchers, and none of them seemed to pay much attention to the M1 Garands I had in my sights. Then two guys showed up that I recognized from the gun show circuit and whom I knew to be milsurp aficionados, and I knew right there and then the auction would be a bust. Sure enough, when the one M1 I really wanted - a postage stamp International Harvester in good condition - went up on the block, these two guys started bidding against one or two other folks and myself. I got out of that war when the price got stupid, muttering about auction fever.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward to Wanenmacher last November; I picked up a less common Gapper, in better condition, for several hundred bucks less than what that one PS finally went for. You really have to be lucky to get a good deal any more at a firearms auction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Perplexed, post: 2043515, member: 7157"] I'm sure gun auctions in the past were worthy of attendance, but in these days of the Internet, with information available at one's fingertips, auctions nowadays are, by and large, a waste of time IMHO. The last one I attended a couple years ago, a farm auction where they had a number of milsurps on the block, was promising - most of the folks there were farmers and ranchers, and none of them seemed to pay much attention to the M1 Garands I had in my sights. Then two guys showed up that I recognized from the gun show circuit and whom I knew to be milsurp aficionados, and I knew right there and then the auction would be a bust. Sure enough, when the one M1 I really wanted - a postage stamp International Harvester in good condition - went up on the block, these two guys started bidding against one or two other folks and myself. I got out of that war when the price got stupid, muttering about auction fever. Fast forward to Wanenmacher last November; I picked up a less common Gapper, in better condition, for several hundred bucks less than what that one PS finally went for. You really have to be lucky to get a good deal any more at a firearms auction. [/QUOTE]
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