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Thread: Pre '64 Winchester 88 .243 value?

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    Pre '64 Winchester 88 .243 value?

    Hi all, over the next year or two, I'm going to be selling off the rifles I don't shoot and focusing on older projects and target or hunting rifles I do intend to use regularly. I essentially want the space in the safes for crappy broken stuff I can work on, not the boring, functional stuff (haha). If I'm not going to shoot it regularly, better be a project somewhere in it. I've decided I'm not a collector really more a tinkerer and a shooter.

    Most rifles I have a fair idea on price but the Winchester 88 that I restored I have no idea as I have no idea if it's collectable or not. Even if it is I don't know prices for these, not my interest area.
    It's this rifle: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....oration-97465/
    It's a pre-1964 model with a proper walnut stock. It's not original clearly because I've restored it. But full disclosure, you can see everything I've done in the linked thread.

    It shoots well with less that an inch 5 shot group at 40m when I sighted it in with open sights. Barrel internally is probably 7/10 when I looked visually and with a bore-scope.
    What it'll come with;
    Spare original butt pad (good condition), It has a reproduction on it at the moment which I brought because I thought the old one had shrunk, turns out the Winchester 88 butt pads were just a bit undersized.
    Skinner peep sight.
    Original period correct Lyman receiver sight (Lyman 66W88) with a couple replacement apertures that are suited for hunting. Currently on it, spare receiver plug screws included so all factory threaded holes for mounting can be blanked if wanted.
    Original front and rear sight (original rear sight is damaged - has a dovetail blank in the barrel at the moment to fill the rear sight dovetail).
    Front sight hood.
    Scope rail and screws.
    One original magazine.
    One magazine someone has "extended" with brazed on bits. Consider it scrap metal if you want it, really bubba'd, doubt it functions.
    Slave pins for assembly if you disassemble it and a printed book detailing how to do so as it's no 1873 lever to disassemble...

    So Winchester aficionados what is this thing worth?
    Probably prefer if people didn't PM me asking to buy it (unless you want to trade for an Austrian Werndl...), I'm not trying to get around the buy & sell rules in terms of price - once I've got an idea of value It'll come up soon enough.

    If you're interested I do have some WWII stuff original number matching with bayonets (bayonets not matching but period correct); Portuguese contract K98, Swiss K31 with rare as hen's teeth original factory clip on diopter sights, Lee Enfield Long Branch 1942.
    More modern stuff like a Sako 85 .375H&H. Maybe some other stuff, I'm not sure yet.
    Last edited by Makros; 11-07-2024 at 12:00 PM.
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