Upcoming Auctions

[alfsauve]

Here's two upcoming auctions.   I've got some bids in on one, but not serious, if you want to outbid me go for it.

HEWLETT'S 2-DAY MARCH AUCTION   a lot of good stuff Saturday 3/26 and Sunday



And FIREARM AND VALUABLES PUBLIC AUCTION Legacy Auction & Appraisal, LLC  on Sunday, 3/27.



Ones in CA and the other in PA, so if you close by you could go watch live.

Don't get carried away.  Don't forget the bidders fee.

[alfsauve]

In a continuing effort to separate the rest of you from your money (hard earned or ill-gotten), just a friendly notice that the Rock Island AUCTION (not armory) May 20-22 Collector's auction now has their catalog on-line.

http://www.rockislandauction.com/auction/aid/52

I haven't seen anything I can live without, but I'm just started searching.    Lot's of early cartridge firearms.   Many S&W pre-M&P stuff (models 1, 2, 3, etc).  No HS Crusaders.  No Colt Anacondas. 

[alfsauve]

Okay,  Rock Island AUCTIONs is having their fall auction Today, Sat and Sunday.  (Sep 9, 10 & 11)

Lots of goodies.  Many are lots of 2 guns.  So you have to buy one you don't want.  Good news is the price of the two is usually less than the price of the items if sold separately.

Lots of Smiths and other guns.  Don't forget the 18% buyer fee and shipping.   You may get lucky and get something for a low bid that others have overlooked.  Got low ball bids in on a S&W 625 and a Dan Wesson .357 Max

http://www.rockislandauction.com/news/newsid/267

[alfsauve]

Okay, it's auction time again.    It's fun even if you're not going to bid on anything to look through the catalog for your favorite.

Next up is a Rock Island Auction regional one in LV.   I've just looked at revolvers so far and there are 1,300 of them.   This is primarily an "antique" gun auction but I've found many modern guns as well as historical ones in the list.

http://www.rockislandauction.com/auction_photo/aid/55

Of course buyer beware of auction fees and shipping.

[Big Frank]

They have a Borchardt that looks like new and a Volcanic pistol. I've never seen either one IRL. An early Colt either for that matter. Definately not your run of the mill auction.

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[alfsauve]

A "Major Cowboy, Indian & Firearms Auction" in Humbolt, AZ is coming up on MONDAY, March 26

https://www.proxibid.com/asp/catalog.asp?aid=50340

Auction Description:
Featuring the Collection of Johnny Woodard a local Sedona Arizona collector. We have saddles, spurs, bits, Fine Art, Indian beadwork Pottery, basket, and LOTS of GUNS!!

I haven't looked through the entire catalog, but there are two S&W 686s I have my eye on.  Being that it's a Weekday auction there maybe some bargins to be had.

[Rastus]

Well, I got what I was after with today's auction from Lindsay. 

2 of the NcStar red dot holographic sights.   $30ea   Normally $42 at Optics Planet.   One's going on my 45 degree mount on my AR and the other on the top of my Buckmark .22
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How did the NcStar hold up for you?  Would you buy them again?

[alfsauve]

How did the NcStar hold up for you?  Would you buy them again?

Ratus, Okay and no.

I just can't quite justify the $300+ (++) for an Aimpoint, EOTech or Trijicon.   So I keep wasting money on the lower end of the scale.

The problem with this models and others like it is the mechanism used to change the reticle.   As you move the lever to change from say "dot-in-circle" to "cross" the zero changes.  And if you don't get that lever in exactly the right detent position then you're off. 

My next one will have a fixed reticle.  I'm looking at those in the $200 range. Possibly Bushnell or Burris.   It's not a priority right now and the NcStar will do.   I keep taking the Buckmark out, but am never fully satisfied with the shooting results.  And maybe it's not as bad as I think it is.  It could just me.  I just don't have confidence in it's zero. 

[Magoo541]

Ratus, Okay and no.

I just can't quite justify the $300+ (++) for an Aimpoint, EOTech or Trijicon.   So I keep wasting money on the lower end of the scale.

Buy once, cry once. 


Or in my case, just wish I had an AR to not have one for 

[alfsauve]

Buy once, cry once. 

Don't you know it Magoo.   And I'm the one on this board who always preaches about never regretting paying for quality.  You'd think I'd follow my own advice.

"The sweet taste of low price is long gone,while the the bitter flavor of poor quality remains for ever."

(or variations of the same)

I bought some Xecilite tools for electronics work when I was a teenager.  It cost me all my savings.  The store employees encouraged me to spend the extra money and that I'd never regret it.   I remember most the sign they had  above the cash register.  Something like this:

We sell fresh, top quality oats.    If you find our prices too high, we also sell, at a much lower cost, oats that have been processed by our horses.