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<p>[QUOTE="TreaShore, post: 9859111, member: 87743"]I second Komokwa's opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best piece of advice I have is to take your time and research the guns before selling them (if that is your decision). Firearms have a ton of factors when valuing. Markings are huge. Be it civil war rifles with state, armory, or regiment markings or simply any firearm with an early/low serial number. It can literally mean the difference in hundreds of thousands of dollars for the smallest detail that you might not even think to look for. While the chances of that are extremely rare, I wouldn't want to be the person to sell my rifle only to see it pop back up in the news as a "find of a lifetime" for the person you just sold it to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TreaShore, post: 9859111, member: 87743"]I second Komokwa's opinion. The best piece of advice I have is to take your time and research the guns before selling them (if that is your decision). Firearms have a ton of factors when valuing. Markings are huge. Be it civil war rifles with state, armory, or regiment markings or simply any firearm with an early/low serial number. It can literally mean the difference in hundreds of thousands of dollars for the smallest detail that you might not even think to look for. While the chances of that are extremely rare, I wouldn't want to be the person to sell my rifle only to see it pop back up in the news as a "find of a lifetime" for the person you just sold it to.[/QUOTE]
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