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Poster: 500grains
Subject: Re: Double Rifle Prices

I don't question that fine dbl rifles have gone up dramatically. But I wonder if they can keep going up at the same rate. Those guns have gone up by at least a factor of 10. If that continues, then 18 years from now one of those rifles will cost between half a million and three quarters of a million dollars. Perhaps, but as the prices go up, there are fewer people who can pay which would seem to be a natural limiter on pricing.

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One can only hope at 10x but I think most of these have gone up between 400-500%. The AU Dollar is about the same as it was then to the US Dollar. The Euro is stronger against the Dollar than the European Currencys then though. I think the Pound was 1.1-1.2 then.

There is a limit, I suppose, but where I don't know. I think Searcy, Merkel, Krieghoff etc are driving the market now and most people who buy one of the entry level guns will someday want the older ones, for nostalgia if nothing else. they are in finite supply and the price will keep rising for them as it stays level or falls for the new ones. As long as people keep making new, entry level guns they will not appreciate much, if any.

As for people who can afford them, even in the late 70's, when the economy was in the toilet, Mercedes and Rolls Royce, BMW and Jaguar still sold everything they could make and the price of their used vehicles were up.

People with money always buy the best, not the best value.

In my opinion only, of course.



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