I'd say £100 less for each, but maybe I'm just tight In fact, I'd say the 98 is worth quite a bit less; personally my 88 is going nowhere and I'd not pay more than £400 for a 98
That 88 you almost bought (from here) a year or so ago, was around £550 wasn't it ?
LOL, seems a little on the cheap side. You can barely get a bashed around old sirocco for that !
JB
(owner of a bashed around sirocco too)
The only sticking point is with rifles such as this, even if a collectable is valued at £1000 and only taking offers say £600 then that is it's true market value. The owner most probably then will hold on to it thus making the whole "what's it worth" completely irrelevant. By the way who actually repairs older Theoben's now? Derek
Thanks guys. From here and other sources, it would seem that this should easily move for around the £600 mark, up to £800 if i found the right collector.
Torn. I can't bring myself to use it in case i damage it. Shame to leave it in the back of the cabinet, but as many have said, if i sell it, i won't see another one!
Might just have to polish it for a bit longer!
Just wondering, how does the single shot tray work on the Imperator rifles? Any one got pictures of the receiver where the mag / tray sits? Thanks. Derek
The first Imperator .177 rifles had a flexible plastic single shot tray, which if you allowed a pellet to fall back into the breech, did not take kindly to being removed, and then replaced. If it could be at all.
Some time after Theoben brought out the .177 98 (Ninety-eight) not only was a 7 shot .177 magazine made available but also a solid plastic single shot tray for both the .177 and .22.
You could now have the best of all worlds - ie you could have a pre HE SLR88 (best version) in .177 flavour, with both a magazine and an easily removable single shot tray!
The .177 magazines are very rare however as I don't think they were around that long before Theoben packed up.
I have heard that impact airguns are have some on the way. The have single shot trays. Give them a call
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