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In 2012 though, I am pretty sure that my claim regarding how many, if not most people, nowadays would not consider an old Mauser when buying a new gun.

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I would go further than that. Most gun buyers now want nothing but the newest rifle and caliber, and have a hard time understanding why anyone would want to hunt with, say, a Griffin & Howe Springfield made in 1936. (Of course, there are the cultured, well informed members of this forum who keep the prices on classic firearms sky high, but they are in the minority.)

In my opinion, the internet has contributed more than any other factor to the demand for custom made rifles, both historical and new. Every talented gunsmith or gunmaker, however obscure his location, now has a potential nationwide clientele to beat a path to his door. In the course of reducing the size of my accumulation and upgrading its quality,I have sold to buyers all over the country, as far away as Hawaii, and bought from sellers as far away as Alaska. I have been exposed to a market which no gun show can rival.

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