Quote Originally Posted by Muskett View Post
Completely mint as said £850-950. Sold a .177 the other month and had loads of inquiries all trying to get it for less. One paid and now owns it and enjoying the ownership; the others aren't. Thats collecting.

A excellent hardly a mark on it with most of the bits then £550-650. Well used but not abused with some bits then £450. The trouble is that people either want mint unused perfect, or for £450 or less as a shooter. In fact as a shooter they are just too similar to a standard Airsporter S which can be had for not a lot. They point beautifully for their iron sights.
Its the loss of premium for mint which is in free-fall price wise. Shooters are rare though.
yes allways thought they should have made a Delux version with a better triguer and say a better quallity stock. Myself I beleve it would have sold or even paid say Venom/ Airmasters/ SFS/Airgun Centure to do some internall work on her. The writer Freddie Dalgetty wrote some articles on the S for AGW and he felt the same. But hey thats history how many times have we had a good product and then not invested, look at the first 4x4 production saloon, no not the Audi Quattro( great car) the Jenson -Intercepter FF, or the Austin Ant 4x4 that could have given Leyland the SUV market, instead the idea was taken up by Suzuki etc. We were the work shop of the world, now we just assemble things with parts sourced from elsewhere poor management, lack of investment and development and we give the markets to foriegn competators