So am I learning something new, or was this bullshit?

[FP1201]

Guy wanting to buy an early Safari Grade Remington 700 that did not go back for the X-Mark replacement Trigger, and proceeds to tell me that detracts $200. from the Value...now I'm WTF, because not only have I not heard such a thing, but people are always in the market for original Trigger groups, and they'll easily fetch a C note.
The People you meet and shit you see at a Gun Show is only rivaled by the County Fair.

 

[tapper3]

I'm guessing BS but really don't have familiarity with that particular issue. But I do know the scammers at gun shows are many.

Years ago I took a pretty minty Fox Sterlingworth double to a show and try to sell. A dealer from Glens Falls flagged me down and wanted to look at it.

After giving it a good look he asked if he could test the safety with a couple snap caps. I said go ahead. He pulled on the right trigger and the safety held. But on the left trigger there was an audible click.

Oh my, something wrong with the safety and I could be liable selling it to anyone. But he was a dealer and gunsmith and could fix it so he would take it off my hands for $200.

I passed on the offer. What he was doing was riding the tang safety forward with the web of his hand as he was pulling the trigger.

Was your guy from Glens Falls?

 

[FP1201]

Don't know where this perspective customer was from, only that I allowed him to get under my skin....
Remington Custom Shop, Safari Rifle with high grade furniture, a Nikon Monarch optic, and zero flaws (although I will say the Bolt Release was sticky from dried oil) with an asking price of $1,495. so this Clown is mumbling that it didn't go back for the recall, and that's a two hundred Dollar Deduction, and that he didn't want the scope (wanting us to take it off) and that he'd only give us $1,200, which we refused, and he said he'd be back if we changed our minds...fuck that guy, I'll sell it at a Gun Buy-Back before that fucker ever gets his dick beaters on it.
I'm used to offers, even some what low ones, but people demanding 2-3-4 hundred off what was already an interesting enough ticket is bullshit...any more I just say "NO!" and walk away....wait until there are even fewer Dealers in NY and between lack of competition and exorbitant charges, people won't be buying anything here.

 

[dsdmmat]

I have 3 Remington 700 trigger assemblies that I shipped back for the recall fix. I replaced them all with Timney triggers. Do you need one.

 

[FP1201]

I have 3 Remington 700 trigger assemblies that I shipped back for the recall fix. I replaced them all with Timney triggers. Do you need one.

Thanks for the offer, but we're all set, and I too have a couple extra "original" Trigger assemblies in my Tool Chest...The Timney is arguably the best...on a slight tangent: I have found from Guns brought into the Shop and even my own, that Oil tends to solidify in them preventing the sear from catching the striker, between that and people doing their own "trigger jobs" (fucking with things they had no business touching) those were the problems that lead to discharges when the Bolt was closed on a live round.

Back to the aggravation, I don't exactly follow the "Blue Book of Gun Values" (it's a guide and excellent source of information) I haven't seen anything to support what to me seemed and absurd insistence.