Ok, I have posted this thread before with no response and an trying again. Has anyone ever posted an ad in the local classifieds like this"
INSTANT CASH PAID FOR PELLET GUNS AND AIR RIFLES;
Have a old pellet gun in the attic or closet?
WILL PAY CASH FOR OLD PELLET GUNS
BEEMAN,CROSMAN,RWS,GAMO, ETC.
Dave, nice try.THEY DONT KNOW! (boy I WISH!) How about a billboard!! (must be some other way!) (you got me thinking) GOOD THOUGHT! Could posibly expose some OLD Dianas! Ill be back on this one! Tim.
to your old post I guess means "no"? Maybe noone has posted that ad in the paper.
When someone asks: "has anyone ever.." I usually don't reply if my answer is 'no', so we don't flood the Forum with a lot of small or unecessary posts. I don't want someone clicking on my post to see what the reply is, when I 'm just going to say "no I haven't but good luck".
I guess I just did the opposite. So good luck with your ad Dave!
I think you may be on to something, but an ad with a couple of lines for a week in my local newspaper is between $50-70, so I don't know if it's worth it. Especially since you may have to do it 2-3 wks in a row until get a "bite".
Harry, we will see. I ran a pretty good ad that starts tomorrow in the Virginian Pilot, and their internet paper for about $35.00 dollars for 30 days. I figure the paper must go out to about a 300k subscribers and at least one person has a pellet gun sitting in a closet that has not shot it in 20 years. Maybe I will score, maybe not, we'll see.
but not an original one . About a year ago or so - I saw such an ad in the local paper . Ran for a week - haven't seen it since. I bet it's worth a try to feel out areas for closet gold.
got the idea from "chasm" (charles mistral?) on the old Anything Goes Hardcore Airgun Talk forum. When I'd place an ad for something else, the local classifieds usually has a 2nd ad free, so I'd place an airgun wanted ad. I've picked up a Beeman original 35, a couple of benjamins, and an S410X (believe it or not). Oddly, some people have very high price expectations for an older gun, and which they never shoot. Guess they figure old (1960's+) US or Euro guns are collector items. I've passed on quite a few due to pricing.
Now, with Craigslist, you can do it for free, although it may not reach as many people as the classifieds. I can't figure out how I place an ad here locally, and get calls from people 6 hours away. Is there a way to search Craigslist on a regional or statewide basis?
Jon, you are exactly right about people thinking their old guns are worth so much. I anticipated the very thing before I placed the ad. However, I have been in sales all my life and I think I can probably overcome most objections. I will use my book book as a last case close. For $35.00 I think I can have a little fun with this and WHO KNOWS WHAT THE NEXT CALL MAY BRING!
its kinda interesting to see what is out there, and to talk to people about what they've got. Other times you get calls from druggies who want to sell a cheap co2 pistol, I figure so they can buy drugs. Meth-heads will call anytime of the day or night.
I talked one time to one old guy who just wanted to find out where to send his gun for repair. Turns out he was retired from SoCal, and had bought it from MacMurray. I told him to send it back in for repair. He couldn't believe MacMurray was still around. Turns out he bought it from Tim Mac's grandfather way back when.
Another way is to hit every garage and yard sale in the area. Especially estate sales. My friend Willie, who posts sometimes at the Yellow forum, once picked up a 'Falk' (semi-rare German made) for a couple bucks at a yard sale. He's always out finding stuff like that. Course you have to have the time and gas money to put into the search.
Jon, I placed the ad under antiques and collectables which is the first listing in the classifieds. What do you recommend? I had thought about Hunting and fishing equipment. I would love to do the yard sale, but have to work on Saturdays.
That's the rare and valuable Gold Streak Sheridan!
January 25 2008, 7:37 PM
For $300, it better be gold. Kidding aside, you've mentioned that yours is a late 80's gun - one of the last made. Sheridan's were made into the early 90s Brad, so this can't be. In fact, the ones from 92-93 were called transitional models because they were made in NY with parts from the Racine WI manufacturing plant shortly after Crosman bought Sheridan. They're still made today, except they are made at the Crosman manufacturing facility in NY. A new one will cost you about $139 and is basically the same gun as yours. Velocities will be within 5-10 fps all things being equal.
A late 80's model Sheridan C with a repaired stock would fetch about $125 on the classifieds, maybe less. $300 is a bit steep if you really want to sell it.
Now a late 50's - early 60's thumb safety Sheridan Silver Streak - there you'd have a $300 gun.
"but I'll be needin' that gun, fer squirrels and such."
here is a pick, mine could be the second to last real WI sheridans atleast the gun dealer in 87 mentioned. I belive he had the three last ones alied sporting goods Utah. He put the other three in a vault
Again, maybe a $150 gun without a stock repair. Check the Yellow Forum classifieds and do a search on 'Sheridan' and see what they are going for.
They only way you'll get $300 is if you list it on Gunbroker and leave it at that price until someone (uninformed) buys it. And ike I mentioned, it is not one of the last made. Jot down the serial number and look up the date of mfg on Crosman's website. They were made in Racine WI up until the early 90's. Sorry but the gun dealer sold you a line on that second to the last one thing.
It's a nice gun - you should keep and enjoy it. 20 years from now, you'll wish you had.
"but I'll be needin' that gun, fer squirrels and such."
hahaha That dealer in Utah fed you a line. Three hundred for a gun with a repaired stock... would YOU buy your own Sheridan for 300? I didn't think so. I 've had probably seven or so go through my hands in the last ten years and I've still got some. Including a 50th anniversary with ALL the goodies.
So what would that one be worth...a thousand at Least by your caculations!
Repaired I would pay MAYBE eighty bucks and then ONLY if the seals were like new, the wear was absolutely minimal and the gun didn't have MORE repairs that weren't obvious to the casual garage sale artist.
It wasn't the last of anything Brad. I lived in Racine and I know this for a fact. I've talked with Ted Osborne about Sheridans. First off, Sheridans are NOT rare. Every shooter who wants one can find one. Second off, the rare ones are usually bought by people who wouldn't shoot them, like the model B. Or the Supergrade. I could have had those too but I passed. They'll be around again, under the piles of model C's that the kids of today aren't interested in like their fathers were and the fathers who have some, will probably go on the market for a lot less than people would have imagined as this economy keeps diving.
You might get a sucker but I don't think so. Even the people on Gunbroker etc are getting more aware. And you're spending more than three hundred in time etc pedaling this gun around, did you know that?
I'm in a truly foul mood this morning and I could have written a lot worse.
Re: Here is my 1964. $300 and it's yours. Free Ship!!
January 26 2008, 8:39 AM
Bill, I see you have the ultra rare cocking aid. Up the value on yours by 70%! lol
By the way, these are only supposed to be pumped to eight pumps not ten. You get valve lock even at eight with the older (like yours). Sheridan recommends these not be pumped more than eight times.
The older models can be pumped 10, 12 even more because the pump levers were much stronger in the older guns. The guns of the late 70's and beyond often had pump arms bend after more than 10 pumps went into them. That's why Mac1 is successful with his billet levers. The older guns don't benefit from this mod because they're levers are strong enough.
My gun dumps all 10 pumps. If it didn't, I wouldn't pump it that much. The older guns are just fine with 10-12. I've never had one valve lock. If I did, I'd remove the trigger block and manually depress the valve - a 5 minute fix.
"but I'll be needin' that gun, fer squirrels and such."
Bill Try this; pump the rifle up to eight pumps and take a shot. Without any more pumping simply load another pellet, cock the rifle and shoot it again without pumping and see what happens. If the rifle fires again, then you had valve lock. Its not a matter of the pump levers being strong enough. Just as you wrote, the earlier ones were stroooong no doubt about it.
Let me know what happened. Every single one I had, had enough pressure still in it for a second lower powered shot without pumping. That's what I learned valve lock does. It prevents all the volume from being dumped on a single firing because that particular valve [design] can't handle the extra pressure.
Valve lock is just that - the valve locks and will not allow you to fire the gun. The condition you describe is a gun not "dumping" all the pressure in the reservoir. My gun will "dump" 10 pumps. Sure, there is a tiny bit of air in there, but it's not even equal to one stroke, so it's not wasted air.
I agree, if you have enough air left for another powerful shot, you've just wasted pumping effort, but that's not the case with my gun. I can chrony it at various levels of pumping and there is a significant difference in velocity between 8 and 10 pumps.
"but I'll be needin' that gun, fer squirrels and such."
I think you and I are on the same page but I don't think we're saying quite the same thing. The Sheridan design will fire whether there's five pumps or no pumps behind the pellet. I thought the valve on the sheridan allows the resovoir to fill but after more pumps than the resovoir (sp?) can handle the valve simply closes. Valve lock then, if I understand it right would mean that the valve I'm talking about has nothing to do with whether or not the rifle will fire again. Either with lower pressure or no pressure at all. Because you can cock the rifle empty and still make the rifle fire. There's just no juice coming from behind the bolt probe. What I'm talking about is enough pressure even at eight pumps to get a low velocity shot out of the rifle. This would mean that there's still enough pressure from up to eight pumps to get a second non pumped shot off. And I think it also means that more pumps don't actually get into the resovoir because the valve already closed due to full pressure?
This is how I thought I understood it. That the walve we both seem to be talking about is for tank pressure and not involved [at] the bolt probe.
I don't think I'm wrong, but naturally I could be...?
Harv, total valve lock occurs when the valve is overpressurized to the point the hammer will not open the valve. Pressue in the reservoir is greater than what can be released by the force of the hammer. If this occurs, your gun will not fire and you can sometimes bend the valve stem (not good). At this point you have two options. 1) wait and hope some of the air leaks out and allows you to fire it or 2) take out the trigger group and manuall depress the valve stem.
You've describing a pre-lock condition. It may not even lead to lock. It just means the valve opening duration is not allowing all the air to escape before the valve closes again.
"but I'll be needin' that gun, fer squirrels and such."
Go get yourself a copy of Ron Elbe's "Know Your Sheridan" and then find a book that comes out every few years known as the Reno book. Its not an estimate of gun values, its what people have actually paid for certain models of airguns.
Your best luck might actually be to put it in the local paper and see what happens. Two hundred for a perfect rifle with incredible wood is reasonable if its got papers, the original packing and manufacture dates coinciding to things like you said happening. And the second to last of anything is second. Not last. The dates (stamped right on the rifles) tell the month and year of manufacture. Once they had serial numbers my opinion is their value is less than the ones which came stamped as I said, with "Made in Racine Wisconsin".
