So a guy walks into an auction...

[Coldfingers]

Check out some of the stupid prices
https://www.proxibid.com/Fairbanks-...talog/228297?p=2&sort=0#cnTb&lr=1664059993490

 

[springfield art]

Check out some of the stupid prices
https://www.proxibid.com/Fairbanks-...talog/228297?p=2&sort=0#cnTb&lr=1664059993490

I kinda would have imagined that the Alaska market is much lower price than here in the Lower 48! I remember when AK and HI came into the Union, and still jokingly think of them as 'colonies'

 

[Coldfingers]

Ok picked op the guns and after a quick inspection I am well pleased.

Pistol
Pedersoli Harper's Ferry 58cal rifled,
Date code AF 1980
Looks like it was used a bit but taken care of. Rifling is good and bore and breach face are shiny. Oiled patch seated against the breach.looks like an issue with the mainspring, but it sparks, and it has been used.

 

[Coldfingers]

So for the rifle
44" 54cal, swamped, bore is clean and shiny had the same oiled patch again the breach face. Barrel is coned also. There is an attempt at some carving.
The lock, it is well tuned, sparks real good, triger pull is very light. New triggers gauge is in the mail, but at a guess I'd say sub 4lb, trigger breaks clean and fast.

I'm a happy camper
Pics to follow

 

[Coldfingers]

Going to do detailed inspection and cleaning over the next few days..."happy dance"

Coldfingers

 

[deerstalkert]

gets better and better. i can't quite focus tonight but the lock appears to be a Haddaway.

 

[DuncNZ]

That was a great buy , both firearms look just fine . I see a Uberti Hawken sold for $170 . All those firearms seem to have sold a bargain prices .

 

[Louisk]

Very nice. Wow, good thing I didn't drive by there. I got a good deal on a Pedersoli Brown Bess carbine at Iron & Wood about a week and a half ago and thought "Okay, that's all I need, no more shopping for muzzleloaders." The deals you mentioned are going to sorely test my resolve!

 

[Coldfingers]

Very nice. Wow, good thing I didn't drive by there. I got a good deal on a Pedersoli Brown Bess carbine at Iron & Wood about a week and a half ago and thought "Okay, that's all I need, no more shopping for muzzleloaders." The deals you mentioned are going to sorely test my resolve!

It must not have been there long, I check there almost weekly. They have had the two Potsdam muskets that he wants way to much for sitting there for awhile. Good you found it before I did.

 

[toot]

remember that even a BLIND SQUIRREL can find a NUT NOW AND THEN!!

 

[JimFlint]

Looks like you did well, congratulation. My only question is, did your wife stay in the car or did she attend the action as well? My wife would have been pulling on my coat sleeve saying lets get out of here before you do something silly.

 

[user 53891]

I love live auctions. I use to go to many gun and antique auctions. Came home one day with a trunk full of rifles. Damned good thing I didn't get a traffic stop...lol. In this area there aren't as many of these live auctions anymore....and the online auctions, you just don't know what you're getting.

 

[user 53891]

If you're happy with what you got, that's all that counts. I think you did very well and walked away with a couple of really nice ML's. Good going friend.

 

[Louisk]

It must not have been there long, I check there almost weekly. They have had the two Potsdam muskets that he wants way to much for sitting there for awhile. Good you found it before I did.

Yep, really got lucky. I don't go there that often but had a sudden urge to drop in after leaving the DMV. It must have been calling me.

 

[Coldfingers]

Louisk

We should meet up and burn some black.

Coldfingers

 

[Coldfingers]

Oh, the wife did not have a good time,sat playing a game on her phone. She is ok with the guns and money part, she just had plans for the time. All in all we were there for less than an hour.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Rifle is worth what you paid for both guns JMO

AGREED
The price of the two is at least what that rifle is worth.
WELL DONE!


LD

 

[Louisk]

Louisk

We should meet up and burn some black.

Coldfingers

That sounds like fun. Did you ever go shooting with the Midnight Sun Muzzleloaders? I went to three or four of their shoots. Sounds like the club is inactive at this time.

 

[Coldfingers]

Update,
keeps getting better
Pulled the barrel this morning.
Getz, 44" 1:66, 54 cal, swamped and coned.

I will be touching her off today.

Happy! Happy! Happy!

 

[springfield art]

Ok picked op the guns and after a quick inspection I am well pleased.

Pistol
Pedersoli Harper's Ferry 58cal rifled,
Date code AF 1980
Looks like it was used a bit but taken care of. Rifling is good and bore and breach face are shiny. Oiled patch seated against the breach.looks like an issue with the mainspring, but it sparks, and it has been used.

!! I got one of these new in the box at auction about 5-6 years ago for $90 bucks! Seems in my area, gun auctions were not much of a "thing" and you could get real bargains! But now the public is on to them, and bargains or sleepers are hard to find! The one I have seems to have a splintery kind of wood, I stripped, stained, and "aged" it, a rifled .58 pistol is nothing to sneeze at! (Haven't fired yet!)