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I know that if Cabelas could have gotten the gun for 1/10th of what it was worth they would have done so and never breathed a word about the actual value or how much they would sell it for.

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Exactly! I'm sure that more folks have been "ripped off" by shops than the other way around.
Just last week, a brother of mine was given a Gibbs square bridge magnum mauser (in .280 ) by our mother and, knowing little about the gun, he took it to a dealer to get an idea of value and was told it was worth $750-$1000!
I'm sure this was partly ignorance, but the shop MUST have had some idea of its true value. At least enough not to insult the owner!

It would be a good expose' project to take a valuable gun around for evaluation by some shops and by doing so, you would get an excellent idea of who the sheisters (or idiots) are in your town...

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